Projects / Research & collaboration

Exploring Byzantium
and its afterlives

Research on Byzantine literature, cultural reception,
and the lives of humans and other animals.

Buffy and Alex, a black cat and a grey cat sitting together on a table
Buffy and Alex.Published with their permission.

Research projects & institutional collaboration

012024–2028
Nature

Beyond the Sacred

Conceptions of Nature in Byzantium (4th–15th c.)

National Science Centre, Poland · OPUS

UMO-2023/49/B/HS2/01572
Bird illustrations from the Vienna Dioscurides
022022–2026
Insects

Byzantine Cultural Entomology

Transformation of the Ancient Heritage

National Science Centre, Poland · PRELUDIUM BIS

UMO-2021/43/O/HS2/00280
032020–2024
Animals

Humans and Non-Human Animals in Byzantium

National Science Centre, Poland · OPUS

UMO-2019/35/B/HS2/02779
042021–2024
Collaboration

Institutspartnerschaft

Katowice / Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation · Institutional partnership

052020–2021
Animals

Between Fantasy and Materiality

Animals in Byzantium

Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland

062014–2019
Literature

Intellectual History of 12th-Century Byzantium

National Science Centre, Poland · SONATA BIS

UMO-2013/10/E/HS2/00170
072014–2017
Literature

An Annotated Translation of the Pseudo-Lucianic Dialogues

National Science Centre, Poland · OPUS

UMO-2013/11/B/HS2/03147
082012–2015
Reception

Transformations and Adaptations of Byzantine Heritage in Modern Europe

National Programme for the Development of Humanities

12H 11 0020 80
092011–2015
Literature

Dance in the Role of Thersites

Byzantine Satire, 11th–15th c.

National Science Centre, Poland · OPUS

102007
Literature

Motif of Katabasis in Byzantine Literature

British Academy · Queen’s University Belfast