The Scientific Committee on Ancient Culture

Polish Academy of Sciences - Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology

National Committee of the AIEB, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Byzantine Commission

Institute of History Institute of Archaeology

Jagiellonian University, Cracow University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów

Leipzig Centre
for History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO)

in collaboration with

Institute for the History of Material Culture Institute of Archaeology

Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint - Petersburg Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade

programme

Rome, Constantinople
and
Newly-Converted Europe:
Archaeological and Historical Evidence
Cracow, Poland, 21-25 September 2010
 Tuesday, 21 September 2010
National Museum in Kraków, The Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace
Kanonicza street 17, 31-002 Cracow

On Tuesday (21 Sept. 2010) Conference participants are invited to visit the exhibition:
Orthodox Art of the Old Polish Republic (National Museum in Kraków, The Bishop Erazm
Ciołek Palace).

Your guide (in English) will be dr Mirosław P. Kruk – visiting hours: Tuesday 4 p.m.;
6 p.m. 8 p.m.
If you wish to take this museum tour, please let us know during which hours (4, 6 or 8 p.m.)
you would like to make the visit, to the following address: cracow2010@gmail.com

Organisers:

Maciej Salamon (Cracow),

Matthias Hardt (Leipzig),
Mirosław P. Kruk (Gdańsk; Cracow),
Aleksandr E. Musin (Saint - Petersburg),
Perica Špehar (Belgrade),
Aleksandra Sulikowska-Gąska (Warsaw),
Marcin Wołoszyn (Rzeszów; Cracow; Leipzig)

Front cover: Byzantine Cross (10ᵗh / 11ᵗh cent.) from Ostrów Lednicki,
in collection of Muzeum Pierwszych Piastów na Lednicy (photo W. Kujawa)
 Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sławkowska street 17, 31-007 Cracow

General session
0900 – 1000 Registration
1000 – 1015 Opening
1015 – 1030 Jonathan Shepard (Cambridge; United Kingdom)
Introductory remarks [ENGLISH]
1030 – 1050 Jerzy Strzelczyk (Poznań; Poland)
Missionary strategy and practice in the Western Church of the earlier Middle Ages [GERMAN]
1050 – 1110 Maciej Salamon (Cracow; Poland)
Byzantine Missionary Policy - Did It Exist?[ENGLISH]
1110 – 1130 Alexey V. Chernetsov (Moscow; Russia)
Paradoxical hierarchy of civilizations (medieval Rus´ concept) [ENGLISH]
1130 – 1150 Matthias Hardt (Leipzig; Germany)
Borders in European medieval studies [GERMAN]
1150 – 1210 Discussion
1210 – 1240 Coffee break
1240 – 1300 Eugenia Gerousi (Chalkida; Greece)
An early Christian mosaic pavement from Thebes as evidence on Eastern Orthodox and Latin
Christian models of civilization [ENGLISH]
1300 – 1320 Jenny Albani (Athens; Greece)
Painted decoration of the church of St. Onoufrius near Genna, Crete [ENGLISH]
1320 – 1340 Discussion
1340 – 1530 Lunch break
1530 – 1550 Jörn Staecker (Tübingen; Germany)
Archaeology and the history of Christianization - an unsolvable contradiction? [ENGLISH]
1550 – 1610 Elżbieta Dąbrowska (Tournus; France)
Deposition of relics in graves – a custom compatible with liturgy or - a sacrilege?[FRENCH]
1610 – 1630 Michael Müller-Wille (Kiel; Germany)
Translations of Reliquaries in Carolingian and Viking Age Europe [ENGLISH]
1630 – 1650 Аleksandr E. Musin (Saint - Petersburg; Russia)
Byzantin relics and reliquaries and the formation of Christian culture in Europe [ENGLISH]
1650 – 1710 Discussion
1710 – 1740 Coffee break
1740 – 1810 Natalia Poulou-Papadimitriou (Thessaloniki; Greece), Elli Tzavella (Athens; Greece),
Jeremy J. Ott (New York; USA)
Burial practices in Early and Middle Byzantine Greece: Archaeological evidence and methodologi-
cal problems for its interpretation [ENGLISH]
1810 – 1830 Aleksandra Sulikowska-Gąska (Warsaw; Poland)
Funeral rites in Ruthenian iconography [ENGLISH]
1830 – 1850 Justyna Straczuk (Warsaw; Poland)
Peasant cemeteries on the Orthodox-Catholic borderland in Poland and Belarus´: an anthropologi-
cal perspective [ENGLISH]
1850 – 1910 Discussion
 Thursday, 23 September 2010
Institute of History, Jagiellonian University
(Collegium Witkowski)
Gołębia street 13, 31-007 Cracow

Section History

0900 – 0920 Georgios Th. Kardaras (Athens; Greece)

Christian symbols among the nomads, AD 5ᵗh – 8ᵗh century [ENGLISH]
0920 – 0940 Georgi Nikolov (Sofia; Bulgaria)
Christianization of the Bulgarians and monasticism in the family of khan Boris I Michael
[GERMAN]
0940 – 1000 Angel Nikolov (Sofia; Bulgaria)
Making a new basileus: the case of Symeon of Bulgaria (893-927) reconsidered [ENGLISH]
1000 – 1020 Lumír Poláček (Brno; Czech Republic)
Mikulčice and Christianity in Moravia during the 9ᵗh century [GERMAN]
1020 – 1040 Discussion
1040 – 1110 Coffee break
1110 – 1130 Béla Miklós Szőke (Budapest; Hungary)
Culture exchange between Zalavár/Mosaburg and the Mediterranean region [GERMAN]
1130 – 1150 Márta Font (Pécs; Hungary)
Latins and Orthodox: peoples and customs. The case of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom
[GERMAN]
1150 – 1210 Ádam Bollók (Budapest; Hungary)
Byzantine missions among the Magyars in the later 10ᵗh century? [ENGLISH]
1210 – 1230 Vincent Múcska (Leipzig; Germany/Bratislava; Slovakia)
On the question of Moravian tradition in Early Arpadian Hungary – possibilities of interpretation
[GERMAN]
1230 – 1250 Discussion
1250 – 1430 Lunch break
1430 – 1450 Sabine Altmann, Roman Grabolle (Leipzig; Germany)
Crossing the border on the periphery of East - Central Europe - The River Saale as a border and
contact zone between Frankish and Slav rule [GERMAN]
1450 – 1510 Christian Lübke (Leipzig; Germany)
Ottonians, Slavs and Byzantium [GERMAN]
1510 – 1530 Petr Sommer (Prague; Czech Republic)
Procopius, the Monastery at Sázava and the so-called Old Slavonic Liturgy in Bohemia
[GERMAN]
1530 – 1550 Jitka Komendová (Olomouc; Czech Republic)
Rus-Czech relations in the Middle Ages as a historiographic problem [RUSSIAN]
1550 – 1610 Discussion
1610 – 1640 Coffee break
1640 – 1700 Przemysław Urbańczyk (Warsaw; Poland)
Who has been buried in medio ecclesiae in the Poznań Cathedral? [ENGLISH]
1700 – 1720 Stanisław Rosik (Wrocław; Poland)
Greeks and Romans in pagan Wolin. Integrating the Barbarians into the collective memory of the
Latin West at the time of the conversion of the Slavs [ENGLISH]
1720 – 1740 Sebastian Kolditz (Bochum; Germany)
Missionary activities and attempts at Christian conversion among the Steppe peoples (especially
Pechenegs and Cumans) [ENGLISH]
1740 – 1800 Discussion
2015 Reception (Collegium Maius, Jagiellońska street 15, 31-007 Cracow)
 Thursday, 23 September 2010
Institute of History, Jagiellonian University
(Collegium Witkowski)
Gołębia street 13, 31-007 Cracow

Section Archaeology (Relics)

0900 – 0920 Lora A. Gerd (Saint - Petersburg; Russia)

Relics in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine canon law [RUSSIAN]
0920 – 0940 Irina A. Sterligova (Moscov; Russia)
Precious Eastern Christian Encolpia from the 11ᵗh to 15ᵗh century (as represented in Russian
Collections) [RUSSIAN]
0940 – 1000 Lyudmila Doncheva-Petkova (Sofia; Bulgaria)
Pectoral crosses – encolpions and their production in medieval Bulgaria [RUSSIAN]
1000 – 1020 Anna A. Peskova (Saint - Petersburg; Russia)
Byzantine Reliquaries Crosses in Old Rus´ [RUSSIAN]
1020 – 1040 Discussion
1040 – 1110 Coffee break
1110 – 1130 Snezana Filipova (Skopje; Republic of Macedonia)
Early Christian reliquiaries found in the Republic of Macedonia [ENGLISH]
1130 – 1150 Vera Bulgurlu (Istanbul; Turkey)
Demre - ancient Myra: a pilgrimage site in the light of archaeological finds [ENGLISH]
1150 – 1210 Svetlana Reabţeva (Kishinev; Republic of Moldova)
Pectoral Reliquary Crosses in the System of Christian Antiquates in the Carpathian-Dniester
Region in the 11ᵗh – 16ᵗh centuries [RUSSIAN]
1210 – 1230 Kateřina Horníčková (Prague; Czech Republic)
Between East and West: Bohemian reliquary pectorals as testimony of worship and culture
exchange [ENGLISH]
1230 – 1250 Discussion
1250 – 1430 Lunch break
1430 – 1450 Mabi Angar (Cologne; Germany)
Byzantine Micro-Architecture to go [ENGLISH]
1450 – 1500 Marcin Piotrowski (Lublin; Poland), Marcin Wołoszyn (Rzeszów, Cracow, Poland/Leipzig;
Germany)
An encolpion from Lubaczów (SW Poland) and its archaeological context [GERMAN]
1500 – 1520 Mirosław P. Kruk (Gdańsk, Cracow; Poland)
On two encolpia from the collection of the National Museum in Kraków [ENGLISH]
1520 – 1540 Nadezda P. Chesnokova (Moscow; Russia)
The corpus of East Christian relics in Russia in 17ᵗh century (according to archival sources)
[RUSSIAN]
1540 – 1550 Marcin Wołoszyn (Rzeszów, Cracow; Poland/Leipzig; Germany)
The Cross & the border. Bad times & Good times. Objects of Christian devotion from the Polish -
Rus´ border region (Cherven Towns). Past and current research [GERMAN]
1550 – 1610 Discussion
1610 – 1640 Coffee break
1640 – 1700 Joanna Żółkowska (Warsaw; Poland)
Disc pendants with St. George’s image from the early mediaeval period in Poland [ENGLISH]
1700 – 1720 Wiera Hupalo, Nataliya Vojtseshchuk (Lviv; Ukraine)
Personalized devotional objects from 12ᵗh century Zvenygorod (Ukraine) [RUSSIAN]
1720 – 1740 Aleksandr A. Ostapenko (Voronezh; Russia)
Miniature figurines of angels, archangels and saints in medieval Rus´ [RUSSIAN]
1740 – 1800 Discussion
2015 Reception (Collegium Maius, Jagiellońska street 15, 31-007 Cracow)
 Friday, 24 September 2010
Institute of History, Jagiellonian University
(Collegium Witkowski)
Gołębia street 13, 31-007 Cracow

Section Archaeology (Relics)

0900 – 0920 Marina Sergeeva (Kiev; Ukraine)
Old-Russian bone and antler objects connected with sacral sphere of the Middle Dnieper area
[RUSSIAN]
0920 – 0940 Natalya V. Khamayko (Kiev; Ukraine)
The Rus´ lunula pendant from 11ᵗh – 13ᵗh century: pagan amulet or Christian ornament?
[ENGLISH]
0940 – 1000 Aliaksandr A. Bashkou (Brest; Belarus´)
The first advances of Christianity in Western Belarus´ in 11ᵗh – 14ᵗh century [RUSSIAN]
1000 – 1020 Vadzim I. Koshman (Minsk; Belarus´)
Enamels cloisonnés in Belarus in 11ᵗh – 13ᵗh century: Byzantine influence and questions of local
production [RUSSIAN]
1020 – 1040 Discussion
1040 – 1110 Coffee break
Section History
1110 – 1130 Victoria Bulgakova (Berlin; Germany)
Russia’s Search for Christian Identity: Byzantium’s Example and its Old Russian Realization in the
Light of Old-Russian Seals[GERMAN]
1130 – 1150 Andrzej Buko (Warsaw; Poland)
Byzantine cultural enclave in the Central Europe? An example of the mortared tower complex at
Stołpie (south-eastern Poland) [ENGLISH]
1150 – 1210 Volodymyr Bak (Leipzig; Germany/Ivano-Frankivsk; Ukraine)
Consecration of Cyril II (AD 1242-1281) Metropolite of Kievan Rus´ in Nicaea in the 1240s:
religious and political relations between Halych-Volynia and Nicaea at the time of Mongol-Tatar
expansion [GERMAN]
1210 – 1230 Disscussion
1230 – 1430 Lunch break
1430 – 1450 Maja Gąssowska (Warsaw; Poland)
St Olaf and Holmgard – Veliky Novgorod as a border region between the Eastand the West in the
11ᵗh – 12ᵗh century [GERMAN]
1450 – 1510 Anna Waśko (Cracow; Poland)
Pagans in Eric’s Chronicle and in the Revelations of Saint Birgitta [ENGLISH]
1510 – 1530 Eleni El. Oikonomou (Thessaloniki; Greece)
Inaugurating the veneration of three Lithuanian martyrs in 14th century Constantinople
[ENGLISH]
1530 – 1550 Discussion
1550 – 1620 Coffee break
 Friday, 24 September 2010
Institute of History, Jagiellonian University
(Collegium Witkowski)
Gołębia street 13, 31-007 Cracow

Section Archaeology (Graves)

0900 – 0920 Perica Špehar (Belgrade; Serbia), Orhideja Zorova (Skopje; Republic of Macedonia)
Grave finds as testimony of Christianity in Central Balkans from the 11ᵗh to 13ᵗh century
[ENGLISH]
0920 – 0940 Maja Petrinec (Split; Croatia)
Croatia between the East and the West - evidence from early medieval graves [ENGLISH]
0940 – 1000 Tina Milavec (Ljubljana; Slovenia)
Sacred sites? 8ᵗh century graves near 6ᵗh century churches at Tonovcov grad (Slovenia)
[ENGLISH]
1000 – 1020 Lyudmila Doncheva-Petkova (Sofia; Bulgaria), Maria Christova (Sofia; Bulgaria)
The transition from paganism to Christianity as reflected by 9ᵗh – 10ᵗh century cemeteries in
Bulgaria [ENGLISH]
1020 – 1040 Discussion
1040 – 1110 Coffee break
1110 – 1130 Stefan Eichert (Vienna; Austria)
Christianisation, pagan relapse and re-Christianisation of Carantania [ENGLISH]
1130 – 1150 Elizabeth Nowotny (Vienna; Austria)
On the confessional situation between the Frankish Empire and Moravia in Carolingian times.
Focus on archaeological sources from Lower Austria [ENGLISH]
1150 – 1210 Peter Hejhal (Brno; Czech Republic), Michal Lutovský (Prague; Czech Republic)
Inhumations in older barrows. Continuity of older tradition in Bohemia and Moravia at the end of
the early medieval period (11ᵗh – 12ᵗh century) [ENGLISH]
1210 – 1230 Disscussion
1230 – 1430 Lunch break
1430 – 1450 Anna Mazur, Krzysztof Mazur (Cracow; Poland)
Early medieval inhumation graves in Lesser Poland. The case study of the cemetery at
Wawrzeńczyce [FRENCH]
1450 – 1510 Jacek Wrzesiński (Ostrów Lednicki; Poland)
The Cemetery at Dziekanowice – Christians cultivating (an older) tradition [ENGLISH]
1510 – 1530 Michał Dzik (Warsaw; Poland)
Bi-ritual burials in the Polish-Rus´ border region (central Bug river basin) during the Middle Ages
[ENGLISH]
1530 – 1550 Discussion
1550 – 1620 Coffee break
1620 – 1640 Vsevolod G. Ivakin (Kiev; Ukraine)
Christianization in medieval Kiev (10ᵗh – 13ᵗh century). Burial custom evolution [RUSSIAN]
1640– 1700 Radosław Liwoch (Cracow; Poland)
On the new border of Christian civilisations. Archeological material from the early Rus´ Plisnesk
[ENGLISH]
1700 – 1720 Przemysław Sikora (Leipzig; Germany)
Christian paganism – pagan Christianity. Slav burial customs during the early period of
Christianization on border of the Orthodox Christian world, with focus on Belarus´[GERMAN]
1720 – 1740 Discussion
1740 – 1800 Vladislav Yu. Sobolev (Saint - Petersburg; Russia)
Investigating funerary traditions of the medieval Rus' in Novgorod region – challenges [RUSSIAN]
1800 – 1820 Heiki Valk (Tartu; Estonia)
Possible reflections on the earliest stage of Christianisation in the borderland of South-East
Estonia and the Pskov region [ENGLISH]
 Saturday, 25 September 2010
Jagiellonian University
(Collegium Novum)
Gołębia street 24, 31-007 Cracow

General session

0900 – 0920 Jukka Korpela (Joensuu; Finland)

Christianization of North Eastern Europe: Two Theories and Hard Facts [GERMAN]
0920 – 0940 Stanislav V. Belskiy (Saint - Petersburg; Russia)
New Archaeological Evidence on Christianisation in 13ᵗh – 15ᵗh century Carelia (northern Ladoga
Lake region, Russian Federation) [ENGLISH]
0940 – 1000 Roberts Spirģis (Riga; Latvia)
Archaeological evidence on the spread of Christianity to the Lower Daugava area in 10ᵗh – 13ᵗh
century [ENGLISH]
1000 – 1020 Discussion
1020 – 1040 Coffee break
1040 – 1110 Vitolds Muižnieks (Riga; Latvia)
Archaeological evidence of 14ᵗh – 18ᵗh century burial practices in the area of present-day Latvia
[GERMAN]
1110 – 1130 Eugenijus Svetikas (Vilnius; Lithunia)
Latin Christianisation in the Orthodox Christian Grand Duchy of Lithuania in late 14ᵗh and during
the 15ᵗh century: A puzzle of historical facts and archaeological data [RUSSIAN]
1130 – 1150 Anna A. Barvenova, Kristina A. Lavysh (Minsk; Belarus´)
Burials in churches of the 11ᵗh – 14tᵗh centuries on the territory of Belarus: influence of Christian-
ization on the costume of the elite in Western Rus’ principalities [ENGLISH]
1150 – 1210 Disscussion
1210 – 1230 Closing Remarks – Archaeology, History
A number of our fellow researchers were unable to participate in the Cracow conference but were kind
to submit their contributions to be included in the volume of the conference proceedings. The following
abstracts of their papers have been published in the volume of abstracts from the conference:

Sebastian Brather (Freiburg; Germany)

Pagan or Christian? Early medieval grave furnishings in Central Europe
Jan Chochorowski (Cracow; Poland)
Russian Orthodox pectoral crosses from Polish archaeological research on Spitsbergen
Barbara Chudzińska (Cracow; Poland)
Archaelogical evidence from [today's] Poland on personal piety during the late Middle Ages
Tomasz Dzieńkowski (Chełm; Poland), Marcin Wołoszyn (Rzeszów, Cracow; Poland/Leipzig; Germany)
The Boris and Gleb encolpion from Czułczyce from the Lublin region, Poland
Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński (Melbourne; Australia)
The archetypal crusader? Henry of Sandomierz
Janusz Górecki, Andrzej M. Wyrwa (Ostrów Lednicki; Poland)
The staurotheka from Ostrów Lednicki
Wiera Hupalo, Nataliya Vojtseshchuk (Lviv; Ukraine)
Reliquaries from 17ᵗh and 18ᵗh century burials in Dubno (Ukraine)
Michał Kara (Poznań; Poland)
Funerary rite and ritual in Wielkopolska of the first Piast, 10ᵗh – first half of 11ᵗh century
Małgorzata Kępa, Joanna Rogóż, Magdalena Sztaba (Cracow; Poland)
Evaluation of the quality of life of the residents of early medieval Wawrzeńczyce in the light of anatomical and
anthropological research
Łukasz Miechowicz (Warsaw; Poland)
Coins in Western and Eastern Slav burial practices in the Middle Ages – relics of pagan beliefs or sign of a
Christian tradition?
Elena Veremeychyk (Chernigiv; Ukraine)
Liturgical and Christian devotional objects in central part of Chernigiv Land in 10ᵗh – 13ᵗh centuries
 Organisers:

Uniwersytet
Rzeszowski

Институт Истории Материальной Культуры Arheološki institut

Российская Академия Наук, Санкт - Петербург Beograd

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