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Towards Byzantine Zoopoetics: Humans and Non-Human Animals in Byzantium (10th-12th Centuries)

2019/35/B/HS2/02779

Keywords:

Byzantium animal studies Byzantine literature

Descriptors:

  • HS2_001:
  • HS3_001:

Panel:

HS2 - Culture and cultural production: literary theory and comparative literature, history of literature, linguistics, library science, cultural studies, arts, architecture

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Wydział Humanistyczny

woj. śląskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Przemysław Tadeusz Marciniak 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: OPUS 18 - announced on 2019-09-16

Amount awarded: 805 320 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2020-06-19

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2025-06-18

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project completed

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (7)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (11)
  1. How to lament a fallen mouse? A parody of ancient lament in the Katomyomachia by Theodore Prodromos
    Authors:
    P. Marciniak, K. Piotrowska
    Academic press:
    Byzanitnische Zeitschrift (rok: 2024, tom: 117,1, strony: 157-168), Wydawca: DeGruyter
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/bz-2024-0008 - link to the publication
  2. Writing a Byzantine zoobiography: the case of the octopus
    Authors:
    Przemysław Marciniak
    Academic press:
    Byzantinische Zeitschrift (rok: 2024, tom: 117,3, strony: 669-692), Wydawca: DeGruyter
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/bz-2024-1170303 - link to the publication
  3. 'Because I don't speak human' - literary concepts of verbal and non-verbal human-animal communication up to the Middle Byzantine Period
    Authors:
    Tristan Schmidt
    Academic press:
    Byzantinische Zeitschrift (rok: 2024, tom: 117,3, strony: 841-876), Wydawca: DeGruyter
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/bz-2024-1170309 - link to the publication
  4. How to lament a fallen mouse? A parody of ancient lament in the Katomyomachia by Theodore Prodromos
    Authors:
    P. Marciniak, K. Piotrowska
    Academic press:
    Byzanitnische Zeitschrift (rok: 2024, tom: 117,1, strony: 157-168), Wydawca: DeGruyter
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/bz-2024-0008 - link to the publication
  5. B yzantine Cultural Entomology (Fourth to Fifteenth Century). A Microhistory of Byzantine Insects
    Authors:
    P. Marciniak
    Academic press:
    Dumbarton Oaks Paper (rok: 2023, tom: 77, strony: 177-193), Wydawca: Harvard University Press
    Status:
    Published
  6. B yzantine Cultural Entomology (Fourth to Fifteenth Century). A Microhistory of Byzantine Insects
    Authors:
    P. Marciniak
    Academic press:
    Dumbarton Oaks Paper (rok: 2023, tom: 77, strony: 177-193), Wydawca: Harvard University Press
    Status:
    Published
  7. Constantinople and the Sea: Narratives of a Human-Nonhuman Ecosystem
    Authors:
    Tristan Schmidt
    Academic press:
    Journal fo Scandinavian Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (rok: 2023, tom: 8 (2022), strony: 67-103), Wydawca: Lund University
    Status:
    Published
  1. Michael Hagiotheodorides (no. 30, translation, commentary); Christopher of Mytilene (nr 90, edition, translation, commentary)
    Authors:
    P. Marciniak. K. Piotrowska
    Book:
    Epistolary Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond (rok: 2021, ), Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Published
  2. Animals of Constantinople: Some Initial Remarks
    Authors:
    P. Marciniak
    Book:
    Anekdota Byzantina. Studien zur byzantinischen Geschichte und Kultur/ (rok: 2023, tom: Byzantinisches Archiv 41., strony: 433-440), Wydawca: DeGruyter
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/9783111070315-028 - link to the publication
  3. Michael Hagiotheodorides (no. 30, translation, commentary); Christopher of Mytilene (nr 90, edition, translation, commentary)
    Authors:
    P. Marciniak. K. Piotrowska
    Book:
    Epistolary Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond (rok: 2021, ), Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Published
  4. More Than Meets the Eye: The Semiotics of Animals in Byzantium
    Authors:
    Tristan Schmidt
    Book:
    The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Relations in the Byzantine Periods (rok: 2025, tom: N/a, strony: 15-41), Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.4324/9781003055877-3 - link to the publication
  5. Michael Hagiotheodorides (no. 30, translation, commentary); Christopher of Mytilene (nr 90, edition, translation, commentary)
    Authors:
    P. Marciniak. K. Piotrowska
    Book:
    Epistolary Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond (rok: 2021, ), Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Published
  6. Animals We Love: Pets and Companion Animals in Byzantium?
    Authors:
    Przemysław Marciniak
    Book:
    The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Relations in the Byzantine World (rok: 2025, tom: N/a, strony: 332-342), Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.4324/9781003055877-19 - link to the publication
  7. Animals of Constantinople: Some Initial Remarks
    Authors:
    P. Marciniak
    Book:
    Anekdota Byzantina. Studien zur byzantinischen Geschichte und Kultur/ (rok: 2023, tom: Byzantinisches Archiv 41., strony: 433-440), Wydawca: DeGruyter
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/9783111070315-028 - link to the publication
  8. Michael Hagiotheodorides (no. 30, translation, commentary); Christopher of Mytilene (nr 90, edition, translation, commentary)
    Authors:
    P. Marciniak. K. Piotrowska
    Book:
    Epistolary Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond (rok: 2021, ), Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Published
  9. Authors:
    Przemysław Marciniak / Tristan Schmidt
    Book:
    The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Relations in the Byzantine World (rok: 2025, tom: N/A, strony: 366 ss.), Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Published
  10. It Was Not Easy Being a Mouse in Constantinople: Some Notes on the Role of Mice in Byzantine Life and Literature
    Authors:
    Katarzyna Piotrowska
    Book:
    The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Relations in the Byzantine World (rok: 2025, tom: N/A, strony: 343-357), Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.4324/9781003055877-20 - link to the publication
  11. Animals of Constantinople: Some Initial Remarks
    Authors:
    P. Marciniak
    Book:
    Anekdota Byzantina. Studien zur byzantinischen Geschichte und Kultur/ (rok: 2023, tom: Byzantinisches Archiv 41., strony: 433-440), Wydawca: DeGruyter
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/9783111070315-028 - link to the publication