CANADIO-BYZANTINA. A Newsletter published by the Canadian Committee of. Byzantinists. No. 7 - March 1996 FROM THE CHAIR

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1 CANADIO-BYZANTINA Coptic Icon on I..thar. Those Canadian Byzantinists whose name does not appear at the received 14 extra copies of the package which contains an received the 2nd Circular booklet of the Congress. We have Advanced notice of participation, Abstract and Hotel Reservation member of the Danish Organizing Committee or, better, the Company responsible for the organization of the Congress: this Newsletter, and you want to have it, please contact any and other information. We are making them available to some of you. If you do not find this booklet in your envelope along with end of the Up-dated Report mentioned above, might not have (Copenhagen, August 18-24, 1996). The XIX International Congress for Byzantine Studies members (of those at least from whom we have received comprehensive and useful as the members want to make it to be... passes. Another, no less important, item is the Byzantine information); which means that this Newsletter is as good, participating. We may see more Canadians in Copenhagen as time awareness in Canada thanks to the scholarly activities of our already conimitted themselves, or indicated interest in some unhappy developments, the convention of the Congress is is one of them. The good news is that it is going to happen! After matters need to be reported; the forthcoming Byzantine Congress National Committee I am assuming that eight CCB members have Since our previous communication six months ago a number of moving along full speed. From an Up-dated report of the Danish FROM THE CHAIR No. 7 - March 1996 Byzantinists A Newsletter published by the Canadian Committee of

2 exactiy as they have been conveyed to published, or work in progress, would be Canada a la BIEN-NALE de la much appreciated) Septembre 1995, en Roumanie ; byzantins, dont quelques fresques murales du XV siêcle a Bucarest, lasi omnia. Studies. For information on this Society, write to him directly. us. Please note that a clear identification de l Art Byzantin en Europe de as to whether entries are articles, books the Canadian Society for Patristic participation dans la dlégation du visite des dglises et monastères post Leontius Hierosolymitanus, Opera Palestine in the Age of Justinian. Patrick Gray also is the Secretary of Patrick Gray (York University) (N.B. Entries in this section are copied langue française, fin Aoüt-dëbut et le Nord de la Moldavie, ont l Est. rafraichi ma mëmoire sur l irradiation ACTIVITIES OF MEMBERS Ottawa) DK-2450 Herlev, Denmark Herlev Ringvej 2C Copenhagen AJS Fax # Angela Commene (ICOM-UNESCO, The Ordinary DIS Congress Service Neil K. Moran CANADJO-BYZANTINA 2 Byzantine Mass. Critical Edition ; Slavonic Painting. Ontario as a new member of our CCB. Enjoyable, tiring, and expensive! But York University and at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Athanasius. none of the latter deterred Canadian Patriarchal Politics in University/Kitchener, Patrick T.R. Gray (York University), Glenn Peers (John BYZANTINE ST THE TWENTY-FIRST CONFERENCE We welcome Barbara Hill from Aurora, See also below. A NEW MEMBER to Power by Anna Komnene. It convened November 9-12 at New is their contribution: A Star is Born: The Patrification of Singers in Late Byzantine and Barbara Hill (Aurora, Ontario), A Chants of the Investigation and Byzantinists to participate, actively. Here Vindication of the Rights of Women Columbia), The Stones of Venice Debra Pincus (University of British Gregory. the Paris Ontario), Hopkins UDIES ANNUAL

3 history seminar, which I guess makes us Century. Speak: Evidence from the Fourteenth Greenfield: It is with great pleasure that we received the following e-message from Richard AT QUEENS BYZANTINE HISTORY SEMINAR The Treasurer is Alice-Mary Talbot D.C.). reminder of the annual dues requirement Washington University, Washington, University of North Carolina at Chapel (Dumbarton Oaks). Abstracts should be Committee, Elizabeth Fisher (George mailed to the Chair of the Program ($20 for regular, and $10 for students and currently not employed scholars). has already been mailed along with a Hill, October A Call for Papers Conference will be held at the The Twenty-Second Byzantine Studies a member of the Governing Board (until (University of Waterloo, Ontario) who is on Venice and the East, Daniel Sahas the 1997 Conference) and participated in the Board s Business meeting, Jean-Guy Victoria, B.C.) who chaired the session Violette (Universitë Laval. P.Q.) Anastasia Mouratides (Windsor, Ontario), Lessley Jessop (Victoria, B.C.), Ontario), John Osborne (University of Geoffrey Greatrex (University of Ottawa, Other Canadians in aitendance included: Social Consideration. VIth C). The Image of the City and Constantinople and its Saints (lvth Helen Saradi (University of Guelph), CANADIO-BYZANTINA 3 review of the book from which, with his Coincidentally Charles Lock, a member of our CCB, has recently published a Once again, the Hellenic-Canadian Art at the University of Jerusalem. Her of hers under the same title. (Toronto), a small but very active Toronto area with yet another fine lecture in their series Byzantine Associate Professor of the Departments Byzantine Art, based on a recent book Heritage. The speaker this year was topic was The Image of the Jew in community organization, presented the of History and of History of Art, and Chair of the Department of History of Professor Elisheva Revel-Neher, Byzantinists and the public of the Association of Constantinople LECTURES the Art in Byzantine Studies in Canada. can be found for publishing a State of Byzantine Studies in Canada. Any in Canadian Universities. We often opportunity to begin accumulating information about courses and programs volunteers for such a very worthwhile This clipping provides us with an receive from students enquiries about project? I can safely predict that funds year. it will survive the cuts and continue next full enrolment of twenty students. I hope in Canada. It is entitled Byzantine one of the few to offer this sort of course Society and currently has a upper level undergraduate Byzan tine I have persuaded Queen s to put on an

4 ..The value of this remarkable thesis lies the journal, we copy the first and the last The thesis of this short book is The same Association sponsored yet two paragraphs in the next item. was Scribes and two anonymous York University) by Professor Corinna South Africa. The title of the lecture xviii, 133. BOOK REVIEW the Great CANADIO-BYZANTINA 4 permission and with the permission of another lecture (January 31 at the Pontifical Institute and February 15 at Matzakis, visiting scholar from Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, Medieval Greek Manuscripts: The Fall of Constantinople 1392 and Alexander Elizabeth Revel-Neher, The Image of the French by David Maizel. Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, Pp. West. Revel-Neher s task has been to build on and revise Blumenkranz s Le order: she has looked for negative or and decisive. And Revel-Neher s a book whose evidence seemed ample juif au miroir de l art chrétien of 1996, of them are to be found in the medieval Jew in Byzantine Art, translated from the remarkable: that there is no shortage of insulting and humiliating depictions of Jews in medieval art, but that almost all evidence is of a somewhat negative manuscripts-and reports very few pejorative depictions of the Jew in Byzantine art-frescoes, icons, illuminated examples... not so much in any modification of our relations. The laws of Justinian and the disparity between the linguistic and the author s point. What fascinates is in Byzantium, least of all in a comforting knowledge of Christian-Jewish relations modification. That, emphatically, is not other emperors, the sermons of John quite shameless in their anti-jewish rhetoric. Yet in its iconography match. This signal anomaly within whereby, after the Council of Quinisext, find two codes in conflict, and two such Ne her. be dependent on typology. When we as few other Christian societies could A further, analogous disparity to be be iconographically represented even pictorial codes of representation of those Chrysostom and other bishops, tend to be Byzantium offers a model of decorum, incontestably demonstrated by Revel considered is that mentioned above, restraint, and respect towards Jews such Byzantine culture has now been scenes of the Old Testament could not while Biblical interpretation continued to culture, it is likely that an explanation should be sought not in further adducing codes in the semiotic economy of College, University of Toronto). Published in St. Vladimir s Theological received approval in writing (James Quarterly, 38 (1994) CCB CONSTITUTION and function of ilnguistic and pictorial of evidence, but in assessing the value strong instances of conflict within one Byzantium. Charles Lock (Erindale The final draft of our Constitution has

5 Payton, Richard Greenfield, Neil Moran, Patrick Gray, A. R. Littlewood, John Osborne, Franziska Shiosser, Daniel those who are planning to attend or own around one of the meetings. we can schedule a brief gathering of our participate in any of these (or other) society meeting, to determine whether I would very much like to hear from May May May 28 May May May Religion, May Studies, May May 3 1-June 2 Canadian Society of Medievalists, Canadian Theological Society, Canadian Society for the Study of Canadian Society of Church History, Canadian Society of Patristic Studies, Classical Association of Canada, Canadian Assoc. of Eastern Christian Canadian Association of Slavists, Canadian Historical Association, the following dates: The following related societies meet on this year s Learned Societies Congress implementing some of its articles. I am suggesting that we make an effort to meet unofficially as a Society during University, St. Catherines, Ontario. Sahas), or by silence from the rest. It would be wonderful if we could start (May 23-June 7, 1996) at Brock CANADIO-BYZANTINA 5 University, publicity, special deciding on and selecting a city and 1998) is not that far away for year 2000 (in fact 1999 or even b) to get them in touch with each other; d) to remind the Committee that the and volunteer their ideas and time; and c) to urge other members to join a) to thank these members publically; The following members have volunteered hosting the BSC in Canada in the year Patrick Gray (York), and James Payton (Redeemer College). The purpose of this clipping is: 2000: Franziska Shiosser (Concordia), look after the various matters involved in to serve in an Organizing Committee to BSC - CANADA 2000 well as for our annual report to the AJEB. Please, keep the Canadio to be more efficient in collecting and # 5 and 6. This system might be proven in the Bulletin, even inadequately, I sent Secretary/Treasurer to send me concerned, the reason is that an If the next AlE Bulletin does not look updated as far as your own activities are invitation to our members by our information was not answered by anyone disseminating information. Let, then, our Canadio-Byzantina be the record of promptly. So that our CCB does feature activity information based on what had activities, for our own information as Byzantina always informed! been recorded in the Canadio-Byzantina AlE BULLETIN

6 CANADIO-BYZANTINA 6 academic and social features, etc., etc. Our Secretary/Treasurer Franziska Shiosser has been looking into the possibility of Concordia University, but no commitment has been made on this by either side. Toronto may prove a more practical choice. THE US NATIONAL COMMITTEE The US National committee for Byzantine Studies continues to be interested in listing Canadian Byzantinists in its forthcoming Directory. In fact its editor, Prof. John W. Barker, is interested in receiving information not only about active, but also former, retired and even deceased Canadian and American Byzantinists for a fuller picture of Byzantine Studies in North America. If you know of any, please notify him. Once more, I am enclosing an Information Form for those who want to be included but have not yet done so! RECEIVED We gratefully acknowledge receipt of the following items: Erich Trapp (Bonn), Zum griechischen Wortschatz in Polilcarpovs Lexikon, in Res Slavica. Festschrtft für Hans Rothe zum 65. Geburtstag (Wien, 1994), pp Byzantinska Sällskapet. Uppsala, 13/1995. Bulletin. The Byzantine Studies in Australia. Newsletter. (XXXI, August, 1995). It contains the abstracts of two Conferences convened in Australia, the IXth Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies (July 7-9, 1995) on the Sixth Century, and The Third International Conference of Macedonian Studies, [July 10-15, 1985 (sic) 1995] on Byzantine Macedonia. CONFERENCES-SYMPOSIA The 30th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (University of Birmingham) will be held on March 23-26, Its theme is Dead or Alive? The Byzantine World in the Ninth Century. The Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposium will be held on May 3-5, Its theme is Aesthetics and Presentation in Byzantine Literature, Art, and Music. CANADIO-BYZANTINA Newsletter of the CCB do Daniel J. Sahas University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON. N2L 3G1 Tel. (519) Ext FAX (519) dsahas@uwaterloo.ca