On the Trail of the Bible of Niketas
A Transverse Approach to Catenae
Published on Monday, February 16, 2026
Abstract
The international workshop On the Trail of the Bible of Niketas: A Transverse Approach to Catenae will take place at Brussels and KU Leuven, on March 30-31, 2026. The event will comprise two sessions: an introductory seminar on Greek palaeography and exegetical catenae; a research day bringing together international specialists to present recent work on the catenae of the Bible of Niketas, examining their editorial logic, sources, and intellectual context from a transverse perspective.
Announcement
KU Leuven, 30-31 March 2026
Program
30 March 2026
Brussels : hands-on session with Greek manuscripts
KBR – Kunstberg 28, room Atelier
- 14:00-15:30 Paola Degni – Università Ca' Foscari, Introduction to Palaeography
- 15:30-17:00 Reinhart Ceulemans, Tiphaine Lorieux, Introduction to Catenae
31 March 2026
Leuven : colloquium
Leercentrum AGORA – Edward Van Evenstraat 4, room Couvreur
- 9:00 Welcome coffee
- 9:30-9:45 Introduction
Key-note papers
- 9:45-10:50 Paola Degni (Università Ca' Foscari), Revisiting Nicetas’ Bible: the Writing, the Manuscripts and the mise en texte
- 10:50-11:55 Laurence Vianès (Université de Grenoble-Alpes), Les chaînes sur les prophètes du manuscrit Firenze, Plut. 5.9
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
Session 1 : The Bible of Niketas
- 13:00-13:45 Barbara Villani (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Different Approaches of Catena Compilers
- 13:45-14:30 Raffaele Tondini (Università degli Studi di Torino), Grammatical Scholia in the Catena on the Twelve Prophets (CPGC 57.1)
- 14:30-15:15 Tiphaine Lorieux (KU Leuven), The Catena on Daniel in the Bible of Niketas
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
Session 2 : Transverse Approaches to Catenae
- 15:45-16:30 Cordula Bandt (Berlin- Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), On the Bible Text of Catenae
- 16:30-17:15 Matthieu Cassin (IRHT, Paris), La Bible de l’autre Nicétas : les manuscrits des chaînes de Nicétas d’Héraclée
- 17:15-18:00 Barthélémy Enfrein (Université d’Angers), D’un Nicétas à l’autre : parcours chronologique et méthodologique dans les chaînes de Nicétas d’Héraclée
18:00-18:15 Concluding remarks
Participation
Participation fee for non-students (catering): €35
Registration required. Register before 23 March by sending an email to tiphaine.lorieux@kuleuven.be
Subjects
- Middle Ages (Main category)
- Periods > Middle Ages > Early Middle Ages
- Mind and language > Thought > Intellectual history
- Periods > Middle Ages > High and Late Middle Ages
Places
- KBR, Kunstberg 28
Brussels, Belgium - Edward Van Evenstraat 4, KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Event attendance modalities
Full on-site event
Date(s)
- Monday, March 30, 2026
- Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Attached files
Keywords
- Byzantine manuscripts, exegetical catenae, patristics
Reference Urls
Information source
- Lorieux Tiphaine
courriel : tiphaine [dot] lorieux [at] kuleuven [dot] be
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« On the Trail of the Bible of Niketas », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Monday, February 16, 2026, https://doi.org/10.58079/15p7r
