Austrian Academy of Sciences

Department Member, Institute for Byzantine Studies

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Dr. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, born 1977. Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Byzantine Studies, Vienna. Member of the project-team “Edition des Patriarchatsregisters von Konstantinopel, Band VI” (Edition of the Register of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Vol. VI: 1390-1397). Contributor to the new edition of the “Regesten der Kaiserurkunden des oströmischen Reiches” (“Register of Imperial Charters of the Eastern Roman Empire“, Munich 2009) by F. Dölger (for the period 565-867), a project of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich. Author of several studies on the Byzantine church, among these the monography „Der Episkopat im späten Byzanz. Ein Verzeichnis der Metropoliten und Bischöfe des Patriarchats von Konstantinopel in der Zeit von 1204 bis 1453“ („The Episcopacy in Late Byzantium. An Index of the Metropolitans and Bishops of the Patriarchate of Constantinople for the Years 1204 to 1453“, Saarbrücken 2008), on the foreign relations of Byzantium (especially on the policy vis-à-vis the eastern neighbours and on the foreign policy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople), and on the implementation of new methods for the study of economic and social structures and institutions in Byzantium (complexity theory, systems theory, network analysis). Co-editor of several collections of papers on Byzantine and medieval history, among these the volumes „Junge Römer – Neue Griechen. Eine byzantinische Melange aus Wien“ („Young Romans – Modern Greeks. A Byzantine Melange from Vienna.“ Vienna 2008), „Emperor Sigismund and the Orthodox World“ (Vienna 2010) and “Matthias Corvinus und seine Zeit” (Vienna 2011).

The Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences:
Mediaevum multiplex. Byzantium and the Eastern Mediterranean as a transitional region between Europe, Asia and Africa from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (300-1500 CE)
The cultural, religious and political transformations that have altered Europe and the neighboring regions by the end of antiquity to the early modern period (4th-16th century) with significant impacts to the present time, can be captured globally beyond the Western European Middle Ages only with a view on Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. With the excellent research at the Institute for Byzantine Studies, the Austrian Academy has a unique (in Europe and internationally) institution that covers exactly this temporal and geographical transition zone. The projects of the Institute examine these processes of transformation in their entirety on the cultural, religious, linguistic, political and economic level, both in their temporal and spatial dimension. The processing and analysis of the sources and monument evidence is combined with new methods of cultural, social, information and complexity sciences. The international recognition of this combination is reflected in the awarding of numerous national grants (FWF) and EU-funded projects as well as in numerous international cooperations. The accumulated research expertise is opening a new, global understanding of the transformation of the ancient to the modern world.

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