Descripción del proyecto
Las perspectivas profesionales de los funcionarios estatales en Bizancio
Un proyecto de investigación innovador desvela los misterios de los funcionarios estatales bizantinos y ofrece información nueva sobre sus perspectivas profesionales, su identidad social y sus opciones culturales. En el proyecto SCIBOS, financiado con fondos europeos, se estudiará el periodo que abarca desde el siglo VII al IX, utilizando como fuente primaria los sellos de plomo bizantinos (pasados por alto por muchos especialistas del tema). El equipo de SCIBOS empleará herramientas de las humanidades digitales, incluido el innovador SigiDoc desarrollado en un proyecto de las acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie anterior, a fin de revolucionar el estudio de los sellos de plomo bizantinos. En concreto, creará una base de datos en línea, publicará un artículo y un corpus de sellos inéditos, documentará los motivos decorativos y elaborará una monografía exhaustiva. Con actividades de formación e investigación planificadas, los investigadores de SCIBOS no solo trabajan para lograr todos sus objetivos, sino que también pretende allanar el camino su futuro desarrollo profesional.
Objetivo
This research project will study the career prospects (geographical and institutional mobility, communication networks, length of tenures) of state functionaries in Byzantium between the 7th and the 9th c., and their social and cultural identity through their self-representation, their professional choices, piety, and ethnic origin. Next to the admittedly limited narrative and archival sources, this project will rely as its main source on Byzantine lead seals, a source material that only few scholars in the field of Byzantine Studies have the ability to analyse. One of the primary objectives of the project is to move beyond traditional approaches in the study of Byzantine lead seals. This will be accomplished, first, by demonstrating the potential of this material for the study of a past medieval society and particularly for the fields of social and cultural history. Second, by the introduction of tools from the Digital Humanities, such as SigiDoc that has been developed through another past MCSA project by a scholar of my host institution.
There will be a thorough research for relevant material which will be recorded in a standard database that will serve as basis for the further process of the material in order to answer our research questions and to complete all the products of the project. The main products of this study will consist of: 1) an online database on the career of officials; 2) an article on the career and communication networks of officials; 3) online publication of a corpus of unpublished lead seals; 4) a list of decorative and iconographic motifs on lead seals; 5) a monograph with the final overall research results. Several targeted training and research activities (the application of digital tools in Byzantine sigillography, research in Bulgarian archaeological archives, seminars, and courses) have been already planned, aiming at the successful completion of the project and the enhancement of the prospects of my future career.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
75006 Paris
Francia