Biblical Poetry: the Legacy of the Psalms in Late Antiquity and Byzantium [POSTPONED] - 23-24/04/202
The Psalms, in their Greek Septuagint translation, were a fundamental corpus of biblical poetry, and as such were continuously referred to in Christian literature. They played a key role in the daily life and in the development of religious sensitivity of late antique and Byzantine people. The production of Psalm-related literature, notably exegetic, was impressively widespread. The Psalms, however, influenced other genres of religious literature as well, and their poetical nature remained an important feature that later authors were well aware of.
FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 23-24/04/2020 [POSTPONED]
Unfortunately, in response to the evolving situation with Covid-19, the conference Biblical Poetry: The Legacy of the Psalms in Late Antiquity and Byzantium (https://www.psalms2020.ugent.be/), intended to be held in Ghent 23-24 April 2020, has been cancelled and will be rescheduled in a later period. It will be our care to let you know the new date as soon as possible.
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Floris Bernard; Reinhart Ceulemans; Cristina Cocola; Kristoffel Demoen; Anna Gioffreda; Andreas Rhoby; Rachele Ricceri.
INFO: web - rachele.ricceri@ugent.be
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Day 1 (23 April)
9h – 9h30 Welcome and registration
9h30 – 9h40 Introduction (Kristoffel Demoen, Andreas Rhoby)
Session 1: Rewritings I (chair Kristoffel Demoen)
9h40 – 10h20 Andrew Faulkner (Waterloo), Authority and Innovation in the Metaphrasis Psalmorum
Respondent: Reinhart Ceulemans
10h20 – 11h00 Konstantinos Melidis – Maria Ypsilanti (Nicosia), Greek and Latin Paraphrases of the Psalms 2 and 136 (137). Pseudo-Apollinarius and Paulinus of Nola: a Comparative Study
Respondent: Berenice Verhelst
11h00 – 11h20 break
Session 2: Gregory of Nazianzus and Beyond (chair Floris Bernard)
11h20 – 12h00 Alessandro De Blasi (Padua), “We Too Will Compose Psalms” Gregory of Nazianzus’ Poetry in the Wake of the Psalms
Respondent: Kristoffel Demoen
12h00 – 12h40 Thomas Kuhn-Treichel (Heidelberg), The Psalms as a Justification for Christian Poetry: from Gregory of Nazianzus to the Metaphrasis Psalmorum
Respondent: Rachele Ricceri
12h40 – 14h lunch
Session 3: Personal Poetry (chair Krystina Kubina)
14h – 14h40 Marina Bazzani (Oxford), The use and function of Psalms in the Exomologesis and the personal poems of John Geometres
Respondent: Emilie Van Opstall
14h40 – 15h20 Ugo Carlo Luigi Mondini (Milan), Voicing Political Relief through Psalms: Manuel II Palaiologos and the Battle of Ankara
Respondent: Anna Gioffreda
15h20 – 15h40 break
Session 4: Komnenian Period (chair Reinhart Ceulemans)
15h40 – 16h20 Alberto Ravani (Oxford), Πολλάκις πολλοῖς καὶ διαφόροις τρόποις. Themes and Purpose of Euthymius Zigabenus’ Commentary on the Psalms
Respondent: Joseph Verheyden
16h20 – 17h Giulia Gerbi (Venice – Paris), Τίνας ἂν εἴποι λόγους ὁ Δαυίδ. A Triptych of Ethopoeiae Portraying David in Nikephoros Basilakes’s Progymnasmata
Respondent: Maria Tomadaki
19h dinner
Day 2 (24 April)
Session 5: Poetry from the Psalter (chair Anna Gioffreda)
9h30 – 10h10 Floris Bernard (Ghent), The Place of the Psalms in Byzantine Historical Consciousness about Metre and Poetry
Respondent: Andreas Rhoby
10h10 – 10h50 Rachele Ricceri (Ghent), Striking the Psalm-Inspired Lyre: the Poetry of Byzantine Psalter Epigrams
Respondent: Peter Van Deun
10h50 – 11h10 break
Session 6: Shared Heritage (chair Peter Van Deun)
11h10 – 11h50 Barbara Crostini (Uppsala), The Poetry of Prayer: Psalms as a Meeting-Point of Cultures
Respondent: Reinhart Ceulemans
11h50 – 12h30 Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Oxford), Ritual Poetry: The Reception of the Psalms in Byzantine Magic
Respondent: Julie Van Pelt
12h30 – 14h lunch
Session 7: Liturgical and Performative Poetry (chair Rachele Ricceri)
14h – 14h40 Cristina Cocola (Ghent – Leuven), The Art of Singing with the Psalms in Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos’ Kατανυκτικά
Respondent: Stefano Parenti
14h40 – 15h20 Antonia Giannouli (Nicosia), David and the Book of Psalms in Byzantine Hymnography
Respondent: Floris Bernard
15h20–15h40 break
Session 8: Rewritings II (chair Andreas Rhoby)
15h40 – 16h20 Anna Gioffreda (Vienna), Reworking the Psalms: Manuel Philes ́ Metaphrasis
Respondent: Krystina Kubina
16h20 – 17h Christian Høgel (Southern Denmark), God’s Dwelling Place: Greek Rewritings of Psalms 25 and 26
Respondent: Claudia Sode
17h – 17h20 Concluding remarks (Floris Bernard, Reinhart Ceulemans, Rachele Ricceri)
17h30 Reception, generously sponsored by Brepols Publishers