Konuşma - Leonora Neville: "Yaratılış'tan Konstantinopol'e: Bizans Tarih Görüşleri" (İngilizce)

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Bizans Çalışmaları Araştırma Merkezi, Leonora Neville'in "Yaratılış'tan Konstantinopol'e: Bizans Tarih Görüşleri"("From Creation to Constantinople: Byzantine Visions of History")  başlıklı konuşmasına sizleri davet ediyor.

Konuşma, İngilizce olarak Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Güney Yerleşkesi, Albert Hall (Temel Bilimler Binası), 310 salonunda 7 Mayıs 2026'da saat 17:00'da gerçekleşecektir.

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi mensubu olmayan katılımcıların kayıt için    byzantinestudies@bogazici.edu.tr adresiyle iletişime geçmeleri rica olunur.

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Özet

How people choose to remember and present their history says a lot about how they understand the world and who they want to be. This lecture explores histories written in the medieval east Roman empire that begin with the Creation of the world and end near their authors' present.  These histories describe a continuous flow of time that included characters and stories from classical mythology, the Bible, and ancient historians. Seen from medieval Constantinople, all of these elements merged to create a vision of the past that gave a staring role to the eastern Roman empire and their own society.

Özgeçmiş:

Leonora Neville studies the culture and society of the Eastern Roman Empire, particularly history writing, and gender.  In Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian (Oxford 2016) she explained how Anna Komnene's reputation as a power-hungry schemer comes from misunderstanding the rhetoric she used in the Alexiad to portray herself as a good historian, even though she was a woman, and a good woman, even though she wrote history. To make her field more accessible Neville wrote a Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing (Cambridge 2018) and an introduction to Byzantine Gender (Arc 2019). Her most recent book Sailing Away from Byzantium toward east Roman History (Cambridge 2025) makes the case for seeing 'Byzantine' history as one phase in a long Roman empire. She is the John and Jeanne Rowe Professor of Byzantine History and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison.