From johnson.60 at osu.edu Tue Jul 3 02:43:09 2018 From: johnson.60 at osu.edu (Johnson, Mary-Allen) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 02:43:09 +0000 Subject: [Asec] CFP: Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art & Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres Message-ID: Call for Papers: SYMPOSIUM Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (c.1300-c.1550) Date: April 5-6, 2019 Location: Princeton University Organizers: Alice Isabella Sullivan, Ph.D. (University of Michigan) Maria Alessia Rossi, Ph.D. (The Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University) Description: In response to the global turn in art history, this two-day symposium explores the temporal and geographic parameters of the study of medieval art, seeking to challenge the ways we think about the artistic production of Eastern Europe. Serbia, Bulgaria, and the Romanian principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania, among other centers, took on prominent roles in the transmission and appropriation of western medieval, byzantine, and Slavic artistic traditions, as well as the continuation of the cultural legacy of Byzantium in the later centuries of the empire, and especially in the decades after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. This symposium will be the first such initiative to explore, discuss, and focus on the art, architecture, and visual culture of regions of the Balkans and the Carpathians (c.1300-c.1550). We aim to raise issues of cultural contact, transmission, and appropriation of western medieval, byzantine, and Slavic artistic and cultural traditions in eastern European centers, and consider how this heritage was deployed to shape notions of identity and visual rhetoric in these regions from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. This event will offer a comparative and multi-disciplinary framework, ranging from art history to archeology and from material culture to architectural history. We aim to create a platform where scholars at various stages of their careers can discuss their research and engage in dialogue regarding the specificities but also the shared cultural heritage of these regions of Eastern Europe that developed eclectic visual vocabularies and formed a cultural landscape beyond medieval, byzantine, and modern borders. Papers could address topics that include, but are not limited to: ? How cross-cultural contact facilitated the transfer, appropriation, and transmission of ideas and artistic traditions across geographical and temporal boundaries in Eastern Europe (c.1300-c.1550) ? Artistic and iconographic developments as expressions of particular social, political, and ecclesiastical circumstances and dialogues in the Balkans and the Carpathians ? The intentions and consequences of diplomatic missions and dynastic marriages in the visual agenda of eastern European centers ? Workshop practices and traveling artists beyond medieval political and religious borders ? Patronage and new constructs of identity before and after 1453 Interested scholars should submit a paper title, a 500-word abstract, and a CV by August 15, 2018 to the organizers at: eclecticism.symposium at gmail.com Funds will be available to defray the cost of travel and accommodations for participants whose papers are accepted in the Symposium. So far, this event is supported in part by the International Center of Medieval Art (www.medievalart.org), the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (www.shera-art.org), the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (piirs.princeton.edu), and The Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University (ima.princeton.edu). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From johnson.60 at osu.edu Thu Jul 26 16:48:04 2018 From: johnson.60 at osu.edu (Johnson, Mary-Allen) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:48:04 +0000 Subject: [Asec] Book on Latin and Orthodox Europe Message-ID: Dear ASEC: Yulia Mikhailov?s forthcoming book is Property, Power, and Authority in Rus and Latin Europe, ca. 1000-1236. https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=92968 ?This book intertwines two themes in medieval studies hitherto kept apart: comparisons of Latin and Orthodox Europe and the "feudal revolution" of the late- and post-Carolingian periods. The book broadens the debate by comparing texts written in ?learned? and ?vulgar? Latin, Church Slavonic, Anglo-Norman, and East Slavonic. From this comparison, the Kingdom of the Rus appears as a regional variation of European society. This suggests current interpretations overemphasize factors unique to the medieval West and overlook deeper pan-European processes.? Regards, M.A. Johnson, Associate Professor Curator of Slavic Early Printed Books and Manuscripts Hilandar Research Library The Ohio State University Thursday, July 26, 2018 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From johnson.60 at osu.edu Mon Jul 30 11:28:05 2018 From: johnson.60 at osu.edu (Johnson, Mary-Allen) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:28:05 +0000 Subject: [Asec] V. Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejic, 1924-2018 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: Allow me to share with you the obituary of Father Matejic, written by his son Predrag Matejic. May his memory be eternal. M.A. "Pasha" Johnson Curator of Slavic Early Printed Books & Manuscripts Hilandar Research Library The Ohio State University Monday, July 30, 2018 Obituary for V. Rev. Mateja Matejic Protopresbyter-stavrophor Dr. Mateja Matejic fell asleep in the Lord on 27 July 2018. A WWII refugee seminarian at Bitolj, Yugoslavia, he completed his seminary education in a displaced persons camp in Eboli, Italy. In 1949, at another camp in W. Germany, he married Ljubica Nebrigic of Srem, his helpmate, brilliant partner, and gentle conscience, who preceded him in death on April 17, 2016. The life of Father Matejic may best be summarized by his almost constant activity, a passion to work, to produce, to add something to the history, culture, memory, faith of others. In addition, with his words and deeds, he inspired others to believe, to build, to create. He was ordained as a Serbian Orthodox priest in a camp in 1951. He and his young family immigrated in 1956. As a priest, he founded two parishes and encouraged and physically contributed to the building of two places of worship, the Church of St. George in Monroe, Michigan (served 1956-1967), and the Church of St. Stevan of Decani in Columbus, Ohio (served 1967-1990). After his retirement in 1990, he voluntarily served as a temporary priest in Naples (Florida), Kansas City (Kansas), Akron, Norton, Barberton (Ohio), Hermitage, Midland, Youngwood (Pennsylvania), and Seattle (Washington), where he is given credit for helping inspire them to have their first St. Sava parish church. He continued to regularly volunteer as long as he was able. He also taught and served as Dean of the Serbian Orthodox School of Theology at the St. Sava Monastery in Libertyville, Illinois. Dr. Matejic published original works on theology, translations of early Christian texts, discovered and published unknown works of the medieval Serbian Church, wrote on the history of Orthodoxy. He was especially committed to children?s education and wrote religious poems as well as plays and poems about Serbian saints, suitable for younger children. In addition to his seminary education, he attained a B.A. in 1963 (Wayne State University) and a Ph.D. in 1967 (University of Michigan). He taught at Case Western Reserve 1967-1968, and then in the Slavic Department at Ohio State until his retirement as a full professor in 1989. His areas of specialization were diverse, but he was especially known for his lectures on Dostoevsky and Old Russian and medieval South Slavic literature and paleography. Father Matejic was the co-founder and first editor (1967-1974) of The Path of Orthodoxy / Staza Pravoslavlja, which began as a dual-language newspaper of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of the Eastern U.S. and Canada, and is now an official publication of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America. In 1976, he established and for 20 years ran a small publishing company, ?Kosovo,? which published books of interest to the Serbian and Eastern Orthodox communities in North America. As a professor at OSU, in 1969, he helped found and became the first director of the Hilandar Research Project, which microfilmed the medieval Slavic manuscripts of the Serbian monastery, Hilandar, on Mount Athos (Greece), thereby making their content more widely accessible and encouraging research in medieval Slavic studies. Under his direction, in time he helped found and establish at OSU both a special collection, the Hilandar Research Library, and a small research center, the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies with its ?Hilandar? Endowment. Dr. Matejic had a gift for languages and was fluent in five, conversant in another three, and read six others. He was prolific as a lecturer and author. Well known as a theologian and scholar, he travelled frequently and made presentations in 23 different countries. He was the author of 49 monographs and reference works, and over 500 articles and literary reviews, many of them for World Literature Today (1976-1981). His scholarly publications, especially descriptions of Slavic medieval manuscripts, are consulted and cited regularly. His creativity also extended to poetry and literature. In fact, his first works were published at age 18 in 1942. Many of his published works are books of poems, short stories, and memoirs, in Serbian and/or English. Several poems were published in the camps. His poems, especially those inspired by Hilandar Monastery and its monks, have been published with and without attribution in several countries, especially Serbia. Some of his poems have been set to original music and performed in concerts. Father Matejic received recognition and numerous awards, beginning with prestigious academic fellowships, including the Woodrow Wilson. Later, his research and scholarship were instrumental and led to receiving grants from the U.S. Information Agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council for Learned Societies, and several research awards of The Ohio State University. For his dedication to the Serbian Orthodox Church, he was recognized as a ?cross-bearer,? with the right to wear a pectoral cross, similar to those worn by bishops. In 2001 he received both a Commendation and the highest award of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Order of St. Sava. For his original poetry and literature in Serbian, the Union of Serbian Writers acknowledged him to be among the three best Serbian emigre authors of all-time. In 1988, he was accepted into the Union of Serbian Writers, and in 1996, 2000, and 2005, he received 3 separate literary awards. The city of Smederevo, which he left as a political refugee in 1944, acknowledged his many contributions by a lengthy entry in the ?Smederevo Encyclopedia.? In 2001, he was awarded the key to the city of Smederevo. For his contributions to scholarship and medieval studies, he was also recognized by Bulgaria. In 1978, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church awarded him the Order of St. Kliment. In 1984, he was inducted as a member of the Union of Bulgarian Writers. In 1988, he received the highest recognition of the University of Sofia, the ?Blue Ribbon with Medal of St. Kliment.? The Very Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejic was a classic example of a Renaissance man, ?a person with many talents or areas of knowledge.? His breadth and depth of interests, knowledge, and creativity was remarkable. Yet, without the steadfast support, patience, understanding, and sacrifice of his wife, Protopresbytera Ljubica, many of his travels, lectures, opportunities and accomplishments would not have been possible. The Very Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejic is survived by: five children?Predrag (Tatyana), Milica (Frederick), Vida (Thomas), Nenad, Dragana (Milan); 12 grandchildren?Nenad (Tina), Svetoslav (Sarah), Angela (Matt), Anjalyn (Patrick), Zachary, Emily (Doug), Konstantin, Kara, Alex (Lauren), Thomas, Milan, Aleksi; and nine great grandchildren?Ethan, Sam, Eli, Sophia, Dimitur, Stella, Elisaveta, Violet, Finn. He is also survived by his dear sister-in-law and friend Gordana Miric, nephew Borislav Miric, and many nieces and nephews in Serbia. In lieu of flowers and in accordance with his wishes, donations may be made to support children and orphans in Serbia (lifeline?canada.org or http://www.lifelineny.org), Hilandar Monastery (athosfriends.org), or The Ohio State University?s Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (rcmss.osu.edu and ?Giving?). Tuesday July 31 2:30-4:30: Viewing Rutherford-Corbin Funeral Home / 515 N. High St. Worthington Ohio 6:00: Memorial Service |St. Stevan of Dechani Serbian Orthodox Church / 1840 N. Cassady Rd. Columbus Wednesday August 1 10:00: Divine Liturgy?Funeral Service | St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral / 6306 Broadview Rd. Cleveland Ohio Interment: Serbian Orthodox Monastery Marcha Cemetery / 5095 Broadview Rd. Richfield Ohio Dacha: St. Sava Cathedral Hall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: