South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean \r\nManuscript and Printed Culture in and for South-Eastern Europe

One year after the 12 International Congress of South-East European Studies (2-6 September 2019), this volume inaugurates a series aiming to gather in printed form the richness of the papers presented at this fruitful scientific reunion. The publication of twelve volumes is planned: they are meant to reflect the most representative and thematically homogeneous Congress sessions. Most of these volumes will be published in the BIESEE series. Several other will be issued with Brill and in Études byzantines et post-byzantines. The contributions to smaller-scale sessions will be hosted by the Revue des études sud-est européennes. The first volume of this collection – the eleventh of the BIESEE series – brings together a selection of papers presented in the session South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, convened by Dr Ioana Feodorov and held at the Library of the Holy Synod. While studies focusing on the Arab Christians and the Church of Antioch are collected in a separate volume, the ones published here have in common the relations of the South-Eastern European peoples, and the Eastern- European ones in general, with those living on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean. These relations are addressed in a historical, political, artistic, and broadly cultural perspective, encompassing the various ways of conserving the Byzantine spirit in a post-1453 era, in times of war and fragile peace. \r\n