Maria Mavroudi (Berkeley) Comparing Byzantium with its contemporary Islamic and Western Medieval worlds: literary and cultural relations

We invite Exeter's communities of medievalists and Islamicists to converse with a Byzantinist on topics of shared interest. The moderator of the event is Emily Selove. The guest is Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine history at the university of California, Berkeley. We encourage participants to submit in advance questions pertaining to the communication of Byzantium with its neighbors to its East and West in the following domains: magic and divination; poetry; satire and humor; philosophy. The goal is to highlight the potential routes that interdisciplinary dialogue among these three scholarly fields can take. Please send your questions to Emily Selove (E.Selove@exeter.ac.uk).