Date/Time
Date(s) - 28 Feb 2017
6:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Location
Bettman Lecture Hall, 612 Schermerhorn, Columbia University
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George Makris, Postdoctoral Research Scholar will discuss “Out of the Mist: Portraying Lay Authority and Meaning in Late Byzantium.”
Tuesday, February 28 at 6:15 pm
612 Schermerhorn Hall
In this lecture, Georgios Makris will examine moments and modes of interaction between monasticism and the laity in Byzantium. Offering a rare view of extant monuments and objects in the southeastern Balkans, the empire’s heartland, this lecture will attempt to unveil the realities and devotional practices of the local communities in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. By drawing on written sources and material culture, Makris aims to shed light on the key role of families in the making and sustaining of monastic establishments amidst the turmoil of war, political dysfunction, and territorial shrinkage. The architecture, decoration, and geographical setting of monuments will serve as valuable sources of information about the state of affairs in the late Byzantine countryside and its links to the surrounding world.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Department of Art History & Archaeology