Radical Traditionalism

Christian Raffensperger is associate professor of history at Wittenberg University.David Olster is professor of history at the University of Kentucky.

A fitting tribute to one of North America’s most widely-respected scholars of Byzantium, this collection of chapters on a broad selection of different themes and topics illustrates not only the scholarship of the authors, all of whom studied with Walter Kaegi, but is perhaps more importantly a testament to the range, breadth of scholarship and intellectual leadership of their mentor.

• Chapter 1: Walter Kaegi: A Historiographic Review, David OlsterPart I: QuellenkritikChapter 2: Jerusalem in the Roman and Byzantine Periods in Mujir al-Din’s Fifteenth-Century History of Jerusalem and Hebron, Robert SchickChapter 3: Logos and Ergon in the Histories of John VI Kantakouzenos, Leonidas PittosChapter 4: Constans II’s Odd Speech, David OlsterPart II: Politics / InstitutionalChapter 5: Reimagining the Ties between the House of Nubel and the Donatist Church in Late Roman North Africa, Nathan LeidholmChapter 6: Attila, Honoria, and the Nature of Hunnic Rule, Charles W. KingChapter 7: The Optics of Byzantine Blinding in Medieval Eastern Europe, Christian RaffenspergerPart III: Political / CulturalChapter 8: The character of Hincmar of Reims in four ninth-century manuscripts, Jeremy ThompsonChapter 9: George of Pisidia and Contra Severum: Panegyric and Polemic as Sources for Interpreting Religious Policy, Daniel LarisonChapter 10: Seminaries, Cults, and Militia in Byzantine Heresiologies: A Genealogy of the Labeling of Paulicians, Hisatsugu KusabuChapter 11: Performing History at the Forum of Constantine, Galina TirnanicChapter 12: The Conversion of Sacrifice in Late Antique Art, Alice ChristEpilogue: Walter Kaegi and His Legacy, David Olster and Christian Raffensperger