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The radical integration of science, religion, and poetry in the writings of Loren Eiseley and Richard Wilbur
In a postmodern world turning away from the rigid categories of the past and "the univocal literalism" (Tarnas) of the modern mind, Loren Eiseley and Richard Wilbur bridge the schism between religion and science. Their essays and poems reinvigorate the romantic reconciliation between the mind and nature, subject and object, because, like Goethe, Wilbur and Eiseley see the human mind as a product of nature and the agent of nature's self revelation
Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies : Round Tables
Following the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, the Organizing Committee
decided to produce an online publication of Proceedings from the Round Tables. According to the
official title of the congress, Byzantium - a World of Changes, AIEB together with the Organizing
Committee, have decided to implement some changes to the concept of the Round Tables. The aim
of these changes were to encourage discussion at the Round Tables by presenting preliminary papers
at the website in advance. The idea was to introduce the topic and papers of the individual Round
Tables that would be discussed, first between the participants, and then with the public present.
Therefore, the conveners of the Round Tables were asked to create Round Tables with no more than
10 participants. They collected the papers, which were to be no longer than 18,000 characters in one
of the official languages of the Congress and without footnotes or endnotes. Conveners provided a
general statement on the goal of each roundtable and on the content of the papers.
The present volume contains papers from 49 Round Tables carefully selected to cover a wide
range of topics, developed over the last five years since the previous Congress. The topics show
diversity within fields and subfields, ranging from history to art history, archeology, philosophy,
literature, hagiography, and sigillography. The Round Tables displayed current advances in research,
scholarly debates, as well as new methodologies and concerns germane to all aspects of international
Byzantine studies.
The papers presented in this volume were last sent to the congress organizers in the second
week of August 2016 and represent the material that was on hand at that time and had been posted
on the official website; no post-congress revisions have occurred. We present this volume in hope
that it will be an initial step for further development of Round Tables into collections of articles
and thematic books compiled and published following the Congress, in collaboration with other
interested institutions and editors. With this volume, the organizers signal their appreciation of
the efforts of more than 1600 participants who contributed, both to the Round Tables and to the
Congress in general