BYZANTINE HUMANISM IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY HUMANISMS - INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR ALEXANDER AVENARIUS

Mgr. Andrej KOSTELNÍK

student, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Presov, Masarykova 15, 080 01 Presov, Slovakia, andrej.kostelnik@smail.unipo.sk, 00421517724729

On October 21-22, 2024, an international scientific conference was held at the Orthodox Theological Faculty of the University of Prešov in Prešov on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of the eminent historian and Byzantinist of European stature, Prof. PhDr. Alexander Avenarius, CSc., entitled Byzantine Humanism in the Context of Contemporary Humanisms. The event was organized by the Orthodox Theological Faculty of the University of Prešov, the Historical Department of Matica Slovenská (Slovak Matica), and the Slovak Historical Society at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. 

The aim of the conference was to examine the basic trajectories of Byzantine humanism in the context of European and Slovak history and its philosophical, theological, and historical aspects. The title itself suggests a wide range of topics that were discussed during the conference. In addition to Slovak researchers, the following institutions accepted the invitation to the conference (Orthodox Theological Faculty of the University of Prešov in Prešov, Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov in Prešov, Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava), researchers from North Macedonia, Israel, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine also accepted the invitation to the conference. The contributions dealt with the issues of the Byzantine heritage in medieval Rus and Italy, the question of the autochthonous theory of the origin of the Slavs, as well as Byzantine military history and Byzantine philosophical thought, humanism in the Old Testament, and the theological concepts of St. Justin Popovich...

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