Participation in the Cluster:
- Head of project B2-8 Moses and David: Ambiguous Prototypes for Patriarch and Emperor in Byzantium
- Head of project B11 Emperor and patriarch in Byzantinum - a relationship full of tension (until 2012)
| 1988-1992 | Studied Byzantine Studies, Classical Philology and Numasmatics at the University of Vienna |
| 2000 | Ph.D. at the University of Vienna |
| 1993-2008 | Head of the (departmental) library of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna, internship in Krems (Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit) and Wolfenbüttel (HAB) |
| 2004 | Irene Vaslef Fellowship at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University/Washington D.C. |
| 2007 | Substitute professor at the LMU Munich; teaching assignments at the universities of Budapest, Ionnina, Rhethymno, Vienna, Zurich |
| since 2007 | Supervisor of the "Byzantium" section of the International Medieval Bibliography/University of Leeds |
| since October 2008 | at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
Research Interests:
- The self-expression of the Byzantine aristocracy
- Friendship in the Byzantine Middle Ages
- History of communication and text tradition
Publications:
Monographs:
- Interaktion in Wort und Bild – Personale Beziehungen in mittelalterlichen Quellen (forthcoming)
- Theatron / Rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter / Rhetorical Culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Millennium-Studien 13). Berlin-New York 2007.
- Formen der Anrede im byzantinischen Brief vom 6. bis zum 12. Jahrhundert (Wiener Byzantinistische Studien 25). Wien 2005.
- (together with W. Hörandner) L'épistolographie et la poésie épigrammatique: projects actuels et questions de méthodologie: actes de la 16e Table ronde dans le cadre du XXe Congrès international des Études byzantines, Collège de France – Sorbonne, Paris, 19–25 Août 2001 (Dossiers byzantins 3). Paris 2003.
- Epistularum Byzantinarum Initia (Alpha–Omega: Reihe A, Lexika, Indizes Konkordanzen zur klassischen Philologie 224). Hildesheim-Zürich-New York 2001.
Articles (2008):
- Basileios II. und Bardas Skleros versöhnen sich. In: Millennium. Jahrbuch zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n.Chr.5 ( 2008), 213-224.
- Tendenzen in der gegenwärtigen byzantinistischen Briefforschung. In: Ch. Antenhofer – M. Müller (eds.), Briefe in politischer Kommunikation vom Alten Orient bis ins 20. Jahrhundert (Schriften zur politischen Kommunikation 3). Göttingen 2008, 115-122.
- The letter of Nikon of the Black Mountain to the Founder George; Appendix to T. Papacostas, The History and Architecture of the Monastery of Saint John Chrysostomos at Koutsovendis, Cyprus. In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers 61 (2007) [2008], 149 -156.
Please also refer to the personal website at the Intitute of Byzantine Studies (in German).
courses:
Summer semester 2009:
- 083991 The Late Byzantine Period (13th to 15th centuries) Wed 10-12 a.m.
- 083926 Urban space in the Byzantine Empire Wed 2-4 p.m.
- 084023 Reading Course (Byzantine Greek) Wed 4-4 p.m.
Contact
Prof. Dr. Michael GrünbartInstitute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
Rosenstraße 9
D-48143 Münster
Germany
Tel.: +49 251 83-25112
Fax: +49 251 83-25119
gruenbart@uni-muenster.de
Consultation hours : Nach Vereinbarung
