Knotenpunkt Byzanz

This volume casts a new light on Byzantium as a geographical and cultural intersection. For nearly a millennium, Byzantium was an important crossroads where cultures, people, and institutions from the entire Mediterranean area came together, not only because of its central(and, as a result, precarious) geographical situation, but also because of its prestige. Key subjects of interest explored by this volume include reciprocal cultural and epistemic processes of reception and transformation and the forms of knowledge associated with them. These forms of knowledge relate not only to particular objects of knowledge and the sciences, but also toorganizational structures.