Mapping Eastern Europe is an open-access interactive website intended to promote study, research, and teaching about the history, art, and culture of Eastern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries among students, teachers, scholars, and the wider public. The website offers simple and intuitive engagement with the culturally rich territories of the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathian Mountains, and further north into Ruthenia and Russia through historical and thematic overviews, case-studies and videos of monuments and objects, ongoing projects, as well as reviews of books and exhibitions.  This digital project aims to broaden the geographical, temporal, methodological, and theoretical parameters of the study of medieval and Byzantine art, while contributing to the recent global efforts in Medieval Studies, Byzantine Studies, and Art History. It thus helps bridge the divides between the medieval, Islamic, and Byzantine traditions while situating the sources from Eastern Europe in scholarship. More specifically for Byzantine Studies, the Mapping Eastern Europe project highlights the continuities and transformations in the so-called post-Byzantine period through accessible content both in terms of the individual entries and the overall user-friendliness of the website.

This presentation offers an overview of the project and the content that is available by exploring live the website and showing you how best to use it in research and teaching. In addition, the presentation addresses some of the challenges we have faced along the way and how we envision this project growing in the future. This month’s talk will be online.

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