International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

BYZANTIUM BEYOND BORDERS
Convener: 
Aleksandra Vraneš
Aleksandra Vraneš
, 
Photios’ 
Myriobiblon
– The Source of Bibliography
Ljiljana Marković
, 
Byzantium on the Silk Road
Marko Grubačić
, 
Visions of Heaven and Hell in Byzantine and Buddhist (Japanese) Tradition
Maja D. Stojković
, 
Serbian-Byzantine Cultural Heritage and Modern Drama 
(
Kraljeva jesen
by Milutin Bojić or the Triumph of a Victim)
Hakan Yalap
, 
Early Christian Church Art, Byzantine Frescos and Cappadocia
Snežana Milinković, 
„I greci“ nella letteratura italiana da G. Boccaccio fino alla prima metà del secolo XV

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Aleksandra Vraneš
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade, Serbia; 
[e-mail]
Photios’ 
Myriobiblon
– The Source of Bibliography
Erudition and versatility of book connoisseurs, combined with an awareness of the need to 
acknowledge artistic and scientific achievements of nations, caused the formation of bibliography 
in the Byzantine era, embodied in the Photios’ work 
Bibliotheca
or 
Myriobiblon
. 
Bibliotheca
represented an overview of 280 works of classical authors, including Christian spiritual, and secular 
- historical, philosophical, rhetorical, medical, grammatical, literary prose texts, while the poetry 
was completely neglected. In a historical perspective, each bibliography reveals the initiation of 
awareness of the importance of our own nation through the recording of data on its spiritual 
heritage. After Photios’ efforts, the bibliography has not attracted the interest in the framework of 
science and enlightenment of inclined individuals for a long time, hence it was rooted in Europe 
only in the Middle Ages, resting primarily on religious criteria. It gained importance at the time of 
the French Revolution and it widely branched during the 19
th
century. The paper is dedicated to the 
analysis of Photios’ 
Myriobiblon
and its importance for the development of bibliography.