Classicising learning in medieval imperial systems: Cross-cultural approaches to Byzantine paideia and Tang/Song xue

Project Information

PAIXUE

Grant agreement ID: 726371

DOI 10.3030/726371

Project closed

EC signature date 3 April 2017

Start date 1 August 2017

End date 31 July 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 999 155,00

EU contribution € 1 999 155,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
United Kingdom

Publications

Monographic books (4)

Imperial Authority and Cultures of Learning in Byzantium and Tang and Song China: Comparative Investigations of Empire across Medieval Eurasia

Author(s): Niels Gaul (ed.), Curie Virág (ed.)
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Performing Antiquity across Medieval Eurasia: Classics, Community and Power

Author(s): Gaul, Niels (ed.), Virág, Curie (ed.), Spingou, Foteini (ed.)
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Manuscripts of Character: Codex, Ethos and Authority in Byzantium

Author(s): Gaul, Niels
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Ritual, Learning and Visual Culture in Middle Period China and Byzantium: Ancient Worlds, Medieval Reinventions

Author(s): Virág, Curie (ed.), Gaul, Niels (ed.)
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Book chapters (8)

Performative Reading in the Late Byzantine Theatron

Author(s): Niels Gaul
Published in: Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond, 2018, Page(s) 215-234, ISBN 9781-108289993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781108289993.011

The Letter in the Theatron: Epistolary Voice, Character, and Soul (and their Audience)

Author(s): Niels Gaul
Published in: Companion to Byzantine Epistolography, 2020
Publisher: Brill

Moral Psychology and Cultivating the Self

Author(s): Curie Virág
Published in: Zhu Xi - Selected Writings, 2019, Page(s) 35-55, ISBN 9780-190861254
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190861254.003.0003

Fringe encounters: Translations of antiquity and negotiations of scholarly authority in the margins of Byzantine manuscripts of Ioannes Tzetzes and Manuel Moschopoulos

Author(s): Niels Gaul
Published in: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Issue 111, 2021
Publisher: Harvard University

Schools and Learning

Author(s): Niels Gaul
Published in: Cambridge Companion to Constantinople, 2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Voicing and gesturing emotions: Remarks on emotive performance from antiquity to the middle Byzantine period

Author(s): Niels Gaul
Published in: Emotions Through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium, 2021
Publisher: Mohr Siebert

Ritual and Politics in the Pantokrator: A Lament in Two Acts for Piroska’s Son, Sebastokrator Andronikos

Author(s): Foteini Spingou
Published in: Piroska and the Pantokrator, 2019, Page(s) 305–22, ISBN 9789-633862957
Publisher: CEU Press

Byzantine Collections and Anthologies of Poetry

Author(s): Foteini Spingou
Published in: A Companion to Byzantine Poetry, 2019, Page(s) 381-403, ISBN 9789-004391086
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004392885_017

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Power Emasculated: Eunuchs, Great Clans and Political Reproduction under the Tang

Author(s): Michael Hoeckelmann
Published in: Tang Studies, 2019, Page(s) 1-27, ISSN 0737-5034
Publisher: Maney Publishing
DOI: 10.1080/07375034.2020.1739705

To Rot and Not to Die: Punitive Emasculation in Early and Medieval China

Author(s): Michael Hoeckelmann
Published in: T’oung Pao, Issue 105/1-2, 2019, Page(s) 1-42, ISSN 0082-5433
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10512p01

Introduction to History of Science Special Section on tong 通

Author(s): Volker Scheid, Curie Virág
Published in: History of Science, Issue 56/2, 2018, Page(s) 123-130, ISSN 0073-2753
Publisher: Science History Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.1177/0073275318770832

Attention as Cognitive Resonance: Self, Mind and Agency in the Neo-Confucian Vision of Zhu Xi 朱熹(1130–1200)

Author(s): Curie Virág
Published in: British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2021, ISSN 0960-8788
Publisher: Thoemmes Press

Niketas Choniates’ De Signis Reconsidered: Classicising Visions of Constantinople after 1204

Author(s): Foteini Spingou
Published in: Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 2021, ISSN 0070-7546
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Γράμμα από τη φυλακή: Η φυλακή ως συλλογική εμπειρία στο έργο του Μιχαήλ Γλυκά & του Καισάριου Δαπόντε [Letter from Prison: Prison as a Collective Experience in the Work of Michael Glykas and Kaisarios Dapontes]

Author(s): Foteini Spingou
Published in: Mandragoras, Issue 59, 2018, Page(s) 76–79, ISSN 1106-1898
Publisher: Mandragoras

Other (1)

Achieving Intimate Familiarity: Reading as a Devotional Practice in Song Neo-Confucianism

Author(s): Curie Virág
Published in: Les émotions au Moyen Âge, carnet d'EMMA, 2020
Publisher: EMMA