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News and updates from the ERC-funded research project RELEVEN, led by @tla.bsky.social at the University of Vienna.
Website: releven.univie.ac.at
Congratulations to our pre-doc Aleksandar for succesfully defending his dissertation - now officially Dr. Andjelovic! 🎉💫
September 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
And we are on! 🚀Our conference "Re-evaluating the Eleventh Century: Movements, Connections, and Perspectives" has officially started today! 🎉
The conference runs through 5 September - stay tuned for updates, insights and highlights from the sessions!
#uniwien #releven #DH #11thCentury
September 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Final highlight: our P.I. @tla.bsky.social gave a talk in the "From Medieval Sources to Big Data" panel titled:
"That's just, like, your opinion, man": Historical Consensus and Disagreement as Structured Data.
(and yes, that's a Big Lebowski quote 😄)
July 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Our sessions included :
📌Knowledge, Authority, and Aesthetics in the Byzantine Church
📌The Circulation of Knowledge between Byzantium and Armenia
📌Moving People and the Transfer of Knowledge across the Christian World
📌The Mediterranean in the Short 11th Century

So many great talks & discussions!
July 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Last week @tla.bsky.social and @lewread.bsky.social participated in the 16th general conference of the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, discussing digital approaches to medieval Armenian source material.
January 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Merry Christmas 🎄and a Happy New Year 🌟 from team Releven!
December 25, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Oct: @lewread.bsky.social spoke as part of the conference "Between Athos and Antioch" in Lund on the subject of the 11th century translation programme of the Armenian Catholicos Grigos III Vkayaser. He also organized "Places of Faith, Places of Memory" workshop with RevIDEM.
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Sep 1/2: Aleks presented two papers - one at "Embodied Histories" conference in Potsdam and another at "Character Construction in Byzantium" conference in Prague.
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
July 2/2: @lupl.bsky.social began building a Python library to connect SparQl results with Pydantic models. @tla.bsky.social represented our project at Armenological conference in Yerevan. It was a busy month!
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
July: 1/2: Aleks attended Byzantine Greek Summer School in Washington D.C. Meanwhile, @lewread.bsky.social organized a panel, and also delivered a paper at @imc-leeds.bsky.social titled "Conversion, Kafiyah, and Rhetorical Competition in 11th-Century Constantinople".
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
June: we welcomed Kevin Stadler, our new software engineer! 🎉 Meanwhile, Marton presented his research at "Between East and West" conference in Poland on itinerant individuals and the concept of imitatio imperii in early Hungarian history.
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
May: @tla.bsky.social has given a keynote at the AIUCD
conference, showing how digital methods can reshape our understanding of medieval Mediterranean histories🔎
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Mar: @lewread.bsky.social headed to the Mekhitarist Monastery of San degli Armenia in Venice to work on Armenian colophon. Archival research with a lagoon view... not too shabby! 📜
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Jan: we kicked off the year by welcoming @lupl.bsky.social to the team🎉 Meanwhile, Katalin launched her 2nd monograph in the Hungarian Academy in Rome - what a start to the year! 📚
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Moments from the "Between East and West" conference in Toruń, where our post-doc Márton Rózsa presented his study, "Moving individuals as agents of imitatio imperii in Hungary, c 1000-1050." 👏👏
June 26, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Congrats to our predocs @lewread.bsky.social and Aleksandar, for organizing a wonderful workshop for graduate students at the University of Vienna and CEU, who are working in the field of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies 👏
March 13, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Our team member @lewread.bsky.social was at the Mekhitarist Monastery of San Lazzaro degli Armeni to collect more Armenian colophons for our Releven database! ✨
March 11, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Our team members Lewis Read and Aleksandar Anđelović are leading the organization of a diverse program of events for graduate students working in 'Late Antique and Byzantine Studies'!
Don't miss out on the opportunity to share your current research, discuss it with your peers and hear some feedback✨
December 7, 2023 at 10:23 AM
Kudos to our postdoc Márton Rózsa for an enlightening presentation on 'Conflicting data & new ways of digitising Byzatine Prosography" at the 'Byzanz und das Abendland' conference in his hometown Budapest! 👏
December 1, 2023 at 10:27 AM
Our project leader @tla is presenting our project today at 'New Approaches to Mediterrenean Studies' organized by the PTI-MedHis in Madrid!
November 27, 2023 at 4:45 PM