Project information
The Heritage of Nikodim P. Kondakov in the Experiences of André Grabar and the Seminarium Kondakovianum
(HNK)
- Project Identification
- GA18-20666S
- Project Period
- 1/2018 - 12/2020
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Arts
The aim of the project is to examine the heritage of Nikodim P. Kondakov in the works of his pupils, the scholars of Seminarium Kondakovianum and the art historian André Grabar, during the interwar years.
Kondakov reached Prague in 1923, backed by the Ruská Akce. Here, he drew around him a community of Russian émigré scholars that after his death ideated a periodical devoted to Byzantine culture, Seminarium Kondakovianum, published until 1938. Meanwhile Grabar fled from Russia to Strasbourg, where he earned his second Ph.D. with Gabriel Millet. This two-fold education led him to developed an original methodology that flaw together political, theological and economic perspectives in the analysis of the objects of art.
Seminarium and Grabar are two crucial points for the creation of a new international network of Byzantine studies. Scarred by their personal experience as émigrés, they developed a new supranational perspective on Byzantium, beyond national and local identities. Byzantium became the new terra franca for the intelligentsia, close to another myth of this epoch – Eurasia.
Publications
Total number of publications: 35
2018
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L’exposition des icônes de 1913 a' Saint-Pétersbourg : la découverte des origines chrétiennes russes
Re-thinking, Re-making, Re-living Christian Origins, year: 2018, number of pages: 8 s.
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L'invention d'une périphérie : le cas du Caucase Médiéval et l'impérialisme russe
Year: 2018, type:
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Nikodim Kondakov, Russia and Czechoslovakia. Byzantine Studies, the Link between East and West
From Kondakov to Hans Belting Library : Emigration and Byzantium - Bridges between Worlds, year: 2018, number of pages: 20 s.
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Plotinus and the Origins of Medieval Aesthetics
Year: 2018, type: Editorship of scientific publication
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Russian Inputs in Czechoslovakia
Year: 2018, type: