Center for
Byzantine StudiesUniversity of Silesia
in Katowice, Poland
Literature · Culture · Nature

Center for Byzantine Studies / 02

Projects

Research on Byzantine literature, cultural history, and the natural world.

01

2025–2028

Literature

Byzantine Aesop

Animal Fables in Byzantium: An Annotated Translation of the Fables of Syntipas and Stephanites and Ichnelates

Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland · UNIVERSALIA 2.2

PU250140300000000

Principal Investigator: Przemysław Marciniak
Project collaborator: Katarzyna Piotrowska

02

2024–2028

Nature

Beyond the Sacred

Conceptions of Nature in Byzantium (4th–15th c.)

National Science Centre, Poland · OPUS

UMO-2023/49/B/HS2/01572

Project website ↗
03

2022–2026

Insects

Byzantine Cultural Entomology

Transformation of the Ancient Heritage

National Science Centre, Poland · PRELUDIUM BIS

UMO-2021/43/O/HS2/00280