This conference is the result of a cooperation between the Wittgenstein-Prize Project ‘Mobility, Microstructes and Personal Agency’ of the FWF (Austrian National Research Foundation), acting as the local host, and the Laboratoire d’Excellence RESMED (Religions et sociétés dans le monde méditerranéen, University of Paris-Sorbonne), the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, UMR 8167, Paris), as well as the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO, Cairo), the École française de Rome (EfR) and the University of Nantes (CRHIA), who have organized the previous two conferences in this series in Rome.

Organizers

This conference is the result of a cooperation between the Wittgenstein-Prize Project ‘Mobility, Microstructes and Personal Agency’ of the FWF (Austrian National Research Foundation), acting as the local host, and the Laboratoire d’Excellence RESMED (Religions et sociétés dans le monde méditerranéen, University of Paris-Sorbonne), the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, UMR 8167, Paris), as well as the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO, Cairo), the École française de Rome (EfR) and the University of Nantes (CRHIA), who have organized the previous two conferences in this series in Rome.

Organizing Committee

• Olivier DELOUIS (CNRS, Paris) olivier.delouis@college-de-france.fr
• Maria MOSSAKOWSKA-GAUBERT (IFAO, Cairo) mmossakowska@ifao.egnet.net
• Annick PETERS-CUSTOT (University of Nantes) annick@peters-custot.fr
• Claudia RAPP (University of Vienna; Austrian Academy of Sciences; Leader of the Wittgenstein-Prize
• Project ‘Moving Byzantium’, Vienna) claudia.rapp@univie.ac.at
• Conference Organization and Logistics
• Paraskevi SYKOPETRITOU (University of Vienna) paraskevi.sykopetritou@univie.ac.at

Programme

17 November

9:00-9:30 Welcoming address:

• Claudia Rapp,
• Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert,
• Olivier Delouis,
• Annick Peters-Custot,
• Paraskevi Sykopetritou

1. Monks as pilgrims

Chair: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

• 9:30-10:30 Diarmuid Ó Riain, Monachi peregrini: the mobile monks of the Irish Benedictine houses in medieval Germany and Austria
• 10:00-10:30 Max Ritter, Monks and pilgrims in motion - some remarks on divergent objectives, routes and destinations of Byzantine and Latin pilgrims from the 8th to the 11th c.
• 10:30-11:00 Discussion

Coffee break 11:00-11:30

Chair: Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert

• 11.30-12:00 Arianna D’Ottone Rambach, From Monte Cassino abbey to St Catherine’s monastery on Mount Sinai and return. The journey of a monk and the encounter of graphic cultures
• 12:00-12:30 Heinz Miklas, The Earliest Journeys of Slavic Monks to the Sinai
• 12:30-13:00 Discussion

Lunch 13:00-15:00 for invited guests

2. Monks as delegates

Chair: Nikolaos Zagklas

• 15:00-15:30 Guido Cariboni, Nemo nostri ordinis Romam eat. The prohibition to visit the papal curia for members of religious orders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
• 15:30-16:00 Andreas Rehberg, The mobility within the Benedictines in Italy in the 15th century. The examples of the Farfa Abbey and the monastery of S. Maria Nova in Rome
• 16:00-16:30 Discussion

Coffee Break 16:30-17:00

3. Monks and business

Chair: Nicholas J. B. Evans

• 17:00-17:30 Maria Gerolymatou Eἴτε ἐν μετοχίοις, εἴτε ἐν διακονίαις πλοιαρίων, εἴτε ἐν ἑτέροις χρείαις τῆς μονῆς. Un monastère isolé, des moines en mouvement : le cas de Patmos entre le 11e et le 13e siècle.
• 17:30-18:00 Vangelis Maladakis Monastic Peregrination and Economic Concerns. The Case of Middle Byzantine Athos
• 18:00-18:30 Discussion

Dinner 19:00 for invited guests

18 November

9:00-11:00 Guided tour of the city of Vienna by Dr. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)

4. Monks reviled and exiled

Chair: Yannis Stouraitis

• 11:30-12:00 Elisabeth Lusset, Petitions from Criminal and Runaway Religious in the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary (15th century)
• 12:00-12:30 Francesco Salvestrini Monks and Exile in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
• 12:30-13:00 Discussion

Lunch 13:00-15:00 for invited guests

5. Journeys for education

Chair: Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt

• 15:00-15:30 Olivier Delouis - Annick Peters-Custot, Auf anderen Wegen „Nach Rom gehen“ : Rome dans la fabrique des saints moines byzantins
• 15:30-16:00 Micol Long « Visiting monks ». Educational mobility in 11th and 12th century Western monasteries
• 16:00-16:30 Jean-Baptiste Renault Voyage des moines et circulation des écrits dans le réseau de Saint-Victor de Marseille, Midi de la France, Espagne, Sardaigne (XIe-XIIe siècles)
• 16:30-17:00 Discussion

19 November

6. Circulations and translations

Chair: Emilio Bonfiglio

• 9:00-9:30 Anna Lampadaridi, A less known journey: lives of monks translated from Latin to Greek (late Antiquity/early middle ages)
• 9:30-10:00 Florian Gallon De part et d’autre des Pyrénées : circulations monastiques et rapport à l’autre (IXe-XIIe siècle)
• 10:00-10:30 Discussion

Coffee Break 10:30-11:00

7. Women on the road

Chair: Ekaterini Mitsiou

• 11:00-11:30 Marlena Whiting Facilitating Female Pilgrimage: Female Monastic communities and early Christian pilgrim networks
• 11:30-12:00 Katerina Nikolaou Women’s journeys in the Middle Byzantine era: An impulse to monasticism, an urge to meet holy men
• 12:00-12:30 Discussion

12:30-13:00 Conclusions