International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

Valerio Massimo Minale
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy, 
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Legal Elements in Digenis Akritas
The epic poem on the imaginary story belonging to the hero Basileios, better known as Digenis 
Akritas, tooks place in Anatolia and more precisely in a mountain region between Byzantine empire 
and Arabian world: therefore this kind of literary source could result of great interest also in order to 
understand, from a legal point of view, the life of a military chief on the edge concerning mainly his 
net of values (included the relation with the emperor); moreover the content of the eight chapters 
gives us the possibility to investigate some institutes – among them, for example, the oath and the 
marriage – full of social and historical implications.

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CHURCH, FAITH AND CULTURE 
IN MEDIEVAL SERBIA, BULGARIA AND RUSSIA
Chairs:
 Slavia
Barlieva, Tatjana Subotin-Golubović
Vassil Gjuzelev
, 
Das Erzbistum-Patriarchat von Tărnovo und das Erzbistum von Ochrid 
in den Jahren 1230–1246 und später
Tatjana Subotin-Golubović
, 
The Ohrid Layer in the Liturgical Practice of the Serbian Orthodox Church
Srboljub Ubiparipović, 
The 
Rite of Artoklasia
in the Worship of the Orthodox Church from the 12
th
to the 15
th
Century
Nenad Milošević
, 
Relation between Serbian and Greek Orthodox Order of Worship 
during the Period from the 13
th
to the 15
th
Century
Viktor Banov
, 
L’importanza della riforma di Sant’Eftimij il patriarca di Tarnovo 
per la vita spirituale e culturale dei Balcani alla fine del XIV secolo
Elena Gkartzonika
, 
The Fourteenth-Century Serbian Elites at the Turning Point: 
Mrnjavčevići’s Purse and Life