Ferhat Sezer Kurtoğlu - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
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Ferhat Sezer Kurtoğlu
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Historisches Seminar - Byzantine Studies
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Byzanz und die euromediterranen Kriegskulturen. Austausch, Abgrenzung und Rezeption / GRK 2304)
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Conference Presentations by Ferhat Sezer Kurtoğlu
Remembering Romes: Refugee Memory & Identity Formation in Imperial Cities, Swedish Institute at Athens, June 22–23, 2023.
Copying Chalkokondyles: Greek Manuscript Production in Early Modern Venice
International Medieval Congress 2023, University of Leeds, Leeds, 3-6 July 2023.
Rebuilding Networks in Byzantium after 1204: The Case of Niketas Choniates

After the Latin con...
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Rebuilding Networks in Byzantium after 1204: The Case of Niketas Choniates
After the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204, Niketas Choniates, a distinguished bureaucrat, author, and a learned elite of the Byzantines, found himself in an unwelcoming environment after he sought refuge in one of the Byzantine successor states, the Nicaean Empire in Asia Minor. His former Constantinopolitan circle now shattered and scattered, he had to re-establish political ties during the vibrant years ahead. My paper examines the ways in which a former high-ranked court officer of Byzantium tried to attain a position fitting his qualities by creating a new network of people in different parts of the fragmented post-1204 Byzantine world.
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Thesis by Ferhat Sezer Kurtoğlu
Copying Chalkokondyles: Greek manuscript production in 16th-century Venice
Laonikos Chalkokondyles, one of the four contemporary Byzantine historiographers of the fall of B...
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Laonikos Chalkokondyles, one of the four contemporary Byzantine historiographers of the fall of Byzantium, composed his work in the early 1460s after the advancing Ottomans captured Constantinople and the remnants of the Byzantine Empire. His Herodotean treatise, the Demonstrations of Histories (Apodeixis Historion), gained considerable popularity in manuscript form during the first half of the 16th century before a Latin translation appeared in print in Basel in 1556. Two-thirds of 32 extant manuscripts are known or are likely to have been produced in Venice between 1540 and 1550. The purpose of the thesis is to contextualize this extensive copying activity centered in Venice around the 1540s. It will first examine the manuscript tradition of the Histories and the paratextual evidence found in manuscripts, then scrutinize the overall production output of the scribes and the collections of patrons or book merchants who were in possession of the manuscripts in question, and finally inspect the connections between the copyists and the patrons. By discovering the intellectual spaces in which the manuscripts of the Histories were placed, the study will reveal economic, social, and intellectual tendencies in mid-16th-century Venice that popularized the Greek manuscripts of Laonikos Chalkokondyles’ narrative of the fall of Byzantium and the rise of the Ottomans.
Papers by Ferhat Sezer Kurtoğlu
A Survey of Articles on Byzantium in Academic Journals and Popular Magazines in Turkey (1923-2023)
by
Cem Almurat
and
Ferhat Sezer Kurtoğlu
A Century of Byzantine Studies in Turkey: Papers from the Sixth International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium
, 2024
The exploration of Byzantine culture in the scholarly landscape of modern Turkey serves as a mult...
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The exploration of Byzantine culture in the scholarly landscape of modern Turkey serves as a multifaceted journey through time, revealing layers of historical narratives intertwined with ideological currents. This paper examines the evolution of Byzantine Studies in Turkey through both quantitative and qualitative analyses of articles in academic journals and popular magazines. By doing that, this study aims to provide a statistical foundation to discover the motivations, themes, and ideological approaches that shaped scholarly discourse and public perceptions regarding Byzantium, along with an interpretation of changing trends throughout the first century since the founding of the Republic of Turkey.
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Workshop Bewegte Zeiten 2026
by
Rike Szill
Ferhat Sezer Kurtoğlu
, and
Joaquín Serrano del Pozo
Auch im vormodernen Euromediterraneum war Bewegung kein Randphänomen, sondern Teil der sozio-poli...
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Auch im vormodernen Euromediterraneum war Bewegung kein Randphänomen, sondern Teil der sozio-politischen Realität. Sie konnte durch strategische Planung, wirtschaftlichen Druck, diplomatische Bündnisse oder militärische Gewalt ausgelöst werden – und betraf Menschen, Institutionen, Räume und Zugehörigkeiten gleichermaßen. Mobilität bedeutete somit nicht nur eine Ortsveränderung, sondern auch Umbruch, Entwurzelung, Aneignung und Verlust.
Der Workshop geht der Frage nach, wie Krieg und damit verbundene Migration im vormodernen Euromediterraneum neue politische, soziale und symbolische Ordnungen hervorbrachten. Im Zentrum stehen dabei Konstellationen, in denen Bewegung nicht lediglich reagierte, sondern aktiv herbeigeführt, gesteuert oder abgewehrt wurde – etwa durch Umsiedlungen, Verschleppungen, Grenzziehungen oder administrative Neuordnungen. Mobilität erscheint im Kontext von Gewalt somit nicht als Nebeneffekt, sondern als zentrales Mittel sozialer Reorganisation.
Willkommen sind Beiträge, die diese Dynamiken aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven untersuchen – vergleichend, exemplarisch oder systematisch – und damit neue Einblicke in die politische und gesellschaftliche Formierung des vormodernen Euromediterraneum ermöglichen.
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