Descripción del proyecto
Conexiones del monte Athos en la Edad Media
El monte Athos, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco, está habitado desde hace más de mil años únicamente por monjes (está prohibida la entrada de mujeres y hembras de animales). Por primera vez, unos investigadores analizarán la función que las comunidades monásticas del monte Athos desempeñaron en la sociedad medieval del Mediterráneo oriental. El proyecto MAMEMS, financiado con fondos europeos, estudiará cómo esta república monástica estaba íntimamente conectada con el Imperio bizantino, los principados ortodoxos de los Balcanes y el Cáucaso, el sur de Italia y el Imperio otomano. El proyecto utilizará una base de datos con información sobre cada monje que haya residido alguna vez en esta montaña sagrada, así como sobre cada benefactor del monte Athos y cada visitante entre el año 850 y el 1550.
Objetivo
MAMEMS will constitute the first comprehensive examination of the monastic communities of Mount Athos as independent actors in medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society. This “monastic republic” was intimately connected with the Byzantine Empire, the various Orthodox principalities of the Balkans and Caucasus, South Italy, as well with the Ottoman Empire. By taking advantage of considerable advances in subfields like prosopography, analyzing and making available a set of sources (lists of commemoration) that are either poorly studied or unedited, and by bringing together an interdisciplinary team (a Byzantinist, Slavicist annd Kartvelologist) under the direction of the PI, MAMEMS will transform the way the Holy Mountain is viewed within scholarship and the general public via a triad of leitmotifs: wealth, ethnicity and gender (WEG). The exploration of these topics will be undergirded by the creation of a prosopographical database, Prosopographika Athonika, containing entries for every monk to have resided on the Holy Mountain, every Athonite benefactor and every person to have visited there from ca. 850 to 1550, that is from the time of the first surviving documents in the Athonite archives until the founding of the last of the major Athonite houses, Stavronikita. This database will finally allow a concrete analysis of how medieval Mount Athos was embedded within wider networks of economic interests, church leadership, intellectual exchange and patronage.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
55122 Mainz
Alemania