People and Prayer, Manuscripts and Liturgy

Vienna Euchologia Project Online Winter School

8-9 December 2023, 14.30-18.30 CET

The Vienna Euchologia Project is offering its first Online Winter School. It is designed to introduce
students and others who may be interested to the study of euchologia, Byzantine liturgical prayer books
for the use of priests. Of particular interest for the social history and the history of daily life in Byzantium
are the short prayers for specific occasions that are at the core of the work of the Vienna Euchologia
Project.
The course consists of six sessions (30 minutes presentation, 30 minutes discussion), with breaks in
between.

More information on the Vienna Euchologia Project, its working methods, and its publications can be
found at: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/imafo/research/byzantine-research/communities-and-
landscapes/euchologia-project.

Attendance: The course is directed instructors and their students. Those who have attended all sessions
and provided their full legal name will be issued with a certificate of attendance by the Institute for
Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with the approval of their instructors.
To register, please contact Renate.Burri@oeaw.ac.at at no later than 15 November.

Schedule (Vienna time):

Friday, 8 December 2023
15.00-16.00 Euchologia: New Sources for Daily Life and Social History
Prof. Dr. Claudia Rapp (University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences)
16.15-17.15 The Euchologion: A Search for Traces in the Byzantine Sources
Dr. Elisabeth Schiffer (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
17.30-18.30 The Euchologia in their Manuscript Context
Dr. Giulia Rossetto (University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Dr. Renate Burri (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Saturday, 9 December 2023

15.00-16.00 Liturgy and the Euchologion
Reverend Professor Daniel Galadza (Pontificio Istituto Orienale, Rom)
16.15-17.15 Women and Children
Dr. Eirini Afentoulidou (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
17.30-18.30 Schooling and Education
Dr. Ilias Nesseris (affiliation: Austrian Academy of Sciences)