[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Lecture: March 3, 2015

Dimitri H. Gondicas gondicas at Princeton.EDU
Wed Feb 25 12:49:52 PST 2015





PRINCETON UNIVERSITY



Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies







Lecture





Graeci, Greek, and 'Greekness':

Three Problems of Identity and Language in Early Medieval Italy



Edward Schoolman

University of Nevada, Reno; Institute for Advanced Study




The evidence for the use of Greek language and script in early medieval Italy is preserved within the texts of manuscripts, in the witness testimonies to legal documents, and in surviving inscriptions on monuments and objects.  This corpus of primarily non-literary texts created between the 6th and the end of the 10th century suggests that at times the use of Greek could be a choice, one which made statements about an individual's identity or origins.  These Italian sources illuminate the problems of the flexibility of graphical and linguistic choices in a period when speakers of Greek and the identity of graeci belonged to a distinct minority, while simultaneously the knowledge of the language became a sign of learning and status within Medieval Latin culture.


Edward Schoolman is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Reno, and holds advanced degrees from UCLA and University College London.  He has written on material culture and society in the late antique Mediterranean, with foci on the cities of Antioch and Ravenna, and has worked on archaeological excavations throughout the region.  He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study for the academic year 2014-15, and is currently working on the problems of the origins of aristocratic families in northern Italy.



Tuesday, March 3, 2015

6:00 p.m.

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103





Co-sponsored by: Department of French and Italian and Program in Medieval Studies









Supported by the Christos G. and Rhoda Papaioannou Modern Greek Studies Fund



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