Niels Gaul
Prof. Gaul will be on research leave during the academic year 2013/14.
Niels Gaul teaches Byzantine history, culture and rhetoric from c.600 to 1453, as well as Greek palaeography and current literary and discourse theory. He is particularly interested in the later Byzantine empire; his recent work has looked at various social performances – be it in the form of rhetorical ‘theatre’ or (staged) miracles – and at the scholarly networks permeating late Byzantine society. He has recently finished a monograph on the social and political ramifications of Byzantine paideia (‘scholarship’) in the early fourteenth century, Thomas Magistros und die spätbyzantinische Sophistik (2011), and is embarking on two new projects: a handbook of Greek palaeography & Byzantine manuscript studies; and a monograph on the connection of mimēsis, (rhetorical) self-fashioning, and the revival of civic spirit from the middle through the late Byzantine periods.
Since joining CEU, Gaul has hosted international workshops on ‘Charismatic authority, spiritual friendship: comparative approaches to networks of learning, Byzantine east and Latin west, c.1000–c.1200’ (jointly with Dr Sita Steckel, 2008) and on ‘Centre and periphery in the age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos: from De ceremoniis to De administrando imperio’ (jointly with the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Prof. Volker Menze, 2009). The proceedings of both events are due to appear in 2013.
Gaul presently serves as director of the Medieval Studies Doctoral Program. He is a member of the editorial board of the recently established Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library/Byzantine Greek series.
He taught at the universities of Oxford, Cologne, and Bonn prior to joining CEU.
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Gaul, N.. Thomas Magistros und die spätbyzantinische Sophistik. Studien zum Humanismus urbaner Eliten in der frühen Palaiologenzeit In Mainzer Veröffentlichungen zur Byzantinistik. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011.
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Schreiner, P.. Byzantinische Kultur. Eine Aufsatzsammlung, II: Das Wissen, Edited by N. Gaul and S. Ronchey. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2009.
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Gaul, N.. "Dancing with the Muses of Power and Subversion: performative communication in the late Byzantine theatron." In Performing Byzantium, edited by M. Mullett., in press/forthcoming.
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Gaul, N.. "The Manuscript Tradition." In A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language, edited by E. J. Bakker, 69-82. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
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Gaul, N.. "Moschopulos, Lopadiotes, Phrankopulos (?), Magistros, Staphidakes: Prosopographisches und Methodologisches zur Lexikographie des frühen 14. Jahrhunderts." In Lexicologica byzantina. Beiträge zum Kolloquium zur byzantinischen Lexikographie (Bonn, 13.–15. Juli 2007), edited by E. Trapp and S. Schönauer, 163-196. Super alta perennis. Studien zur Wirkung der klassischen Antike. Göttingen: V&R unipress / Bonn University Press, 2008.
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Gaul, N.. "The Partridge’s Purple Stockings: observations on the historical, literary, and manuscript context of Pseudo-Kodinos’ Handbook on Court Ceremonial." In Theatron. Rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter, edited by M. Grünbart, 69-104. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2007.
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Gaul, N.. "Anassa Anna skopei: Fürstin Anna, bedenke! Beobachtungen zur Schedo- und Lexikographie in der spätbyzantinischen Provinz." In Zwischen Polis, Provinz und Peripherie. Beiträge zur byzantinischen Geschichte und Kultur, edited by L. Hoffmann, 663-704. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005.
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Gaul, N.. "Eunuchs in the late Byzantine empire." In Eunuchs in antiquity and beyond, edited by S. Tougher, 199-219. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2002.
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Gaul, N.. Sideras, Eine byzantinische Invektive gegen die Verfasser von Grabreden In A. Sideras, Eine byzantinische Invektive gegen die Verfasser von Grabreden. Wiener Byzantinistische Studien, 23 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002). Vol. 100. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 100., 2007.
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Gaul, N.. Grünbart, Epistularum Byzantinarum Initia In M. Grünbart, Epistularum Byzantinarum Initia (Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2001).. Bryn Mawr Classical Review., 2002.
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Gaul, N.. "The Twitching Shroud: collective construction of paideia in the circle of Thomas Magistros." Segno e testo: international journal of manuscripts and text transmission 5 (2007): 263-340.
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Gaul, N.. "Andronikos Komnenos, Prinz Belthandros und der Zyklop. Zwei Glossen zu Niketas Choniates' Chronikē diēgēsis." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 96, no. 2 (2003): 623-660.
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