Beyond Nations and Empires : The ‘Byzantine Commonwealth’ and
Russian Émigré Scholarship

k 2019

Beyond Nations and Empires : The ‘Byzantine Commonwealth’ and Russian Émigré Scholarship

PALLADINO, Adrien

Základní údaje

Originální název

Beyond Nations and Empires : The ‘Byzantine Commonwealth’ and Russian Émigré Scholarship

Autoři

PALLADINO, Adrien

Vydání

6th Day of Byzantine Studies, 1.11.2019, Brno, 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60401 Arts, Art history

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00107752

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Historiography; Byzantine Studies; Dimitri Obolensky; André Grabar; national narratives; commonwealth; interwar period; nationalism; Cold War; colonialism

Štítky

rivok

Změněno: 20. 4. 2020 20:15, prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The notion of “Byzantine Commonwealth” was coined in 1971 by Dimitri Obolensky (1918–2001), a Russian émigré almost entirely educated in Great Britain. However, the idea of an overarching cultural “influence” exerted by the Eastern Roman empire on a variety of countries which had formed parts of the Russian empire and extended to encompass the lands which – until 1991 and the fall of the Soviet Union – had been united in an economic and political block, possesses deeper roots. Furthermore, the very roots of thinking about a Byzantine “Commonwealth” have been transformed by the individual trajectories of scholars, especially those who emigrated after 1917. In the frame of this presentation, I would firstly like to present the idea – or myth – of Byzantine Commonwealth. Starting with Obolensky, I would like to further analyse the ideas behind the notion. The latter must be linked with the reworking of Russia’s “Byzantine heritage” by Russian scholars in dialogue with the “West”. Secondly, special focus will be given to the notion of Byzantium’s artistic “influence” by extending the discourse to another Russian émigré scholar, André Grabar (1896–1990). Especially his early works – written while in emigration in Bulgaria or shortly after in France on Bulgarian materials – were instrumental in the creation of the idea of the local “artistic dialects” rather than separate languages spoken by the different areas of Byzantine influence beyond its formal borders. Both figures here analysed, stemming from two different generations, are ideal to exemplify the transformation of the idea of Byzantium from an imperial (and for some “totalitarian”) state to a utopic supranational entity from the years 1917 to 1971.

Návaznosti

GA18-20666S, projekt VaV

Název: Kondakovovo dědictví, Byzance a emigrace (André Grabar a Seminarium Kondakovianum) (Akronym: HNK)

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, The Heritage of Nikodim P. Kondakov in the Experiences of André Grabar and the Seminarium Kondakovianum

Citovat

PALLADINO, Adrien. Beyond Nations and Empires : The ‘Byzantine Commonwealth’ and Russian Émigré Scholarship. In 6th Day of Byzantine Studies, 1.11.2019, Brno. 2019.

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PALLADINO, Adrien. Beyond Nations and Empires : The ‘Byzantine Commonwealth’ and Russian Émigré Scholarship. In \textit{6th Day of Byzantine Studies, 1.11.2019, Brno}. 2019.

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