Peter Michael Boudreau is completing his Ph.D. in art history at McGill University. His dissertation “Keeping Time: Temporal Thought and Imagery in the Calendars of Later Byzantium,” explores how the Byzantine world constructed, conceived of, and encountered its own forms of time through illustrated annual cycles. His ISM project will turn to an understudied set of illustrated liturgical calendar books and icons from the eleventh to fourteenth centuries. While Byzantinists have long analyzed how manuscripts helped create the liturgical year through consolidating hymns and readings for each day of the year, his project will consider how images contributed to this process by generating new temporal understandings. Listen Boudreau’s podcast, “Time in Byzantium.
