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Youhanna Matta
Institute of Coptic Studies (ICS), Coptic History, Faculty Member
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie, Department Memberadd
- Coptic Studies, Early Christianity, Coptic (Languages And Linguistics), Late Antiquity, Coptic Papyrology, Graeco-Roman Egypt, and 16 moreSahidic Coptic, Patristics, Coptic History, Monasticism, Byzantine Studies, Early Medieval History, Asceticism, Hagiography, Monastic Studies, History of Monasticism, Early Asceticism and Monasticism, Coptic liturgy, Church History, Monastic Archaeology, Coptic Monasteries, and Coptic artedit
- A Teaching Assistant in the History department and Librarian, in the Institute of Coptic Studies, in Cairo.edit
ABSTRACTS OF THE PAPERS DELIVERED DURING THE CONFERENCE ANNIHILATIN EVIL: SCENES OF FIGHTING, SLAYING, TRAMPLING AND BINDING BAD FORCES IN ART. 4th NOVEMBER of 2022 Starting at 2 pm. CET Link for the audience:... more
ABSTRACTS OF THE PAPERS DELIVERED DURING THE CONFERENCE
ANNIHILATIN EVIL: SCENES OF FIGHTING, SLAYING, TRAMPLING AND BINDING BAD FORCES IN ART.
4th NOVEMBER of 2022
Starting at 2 pm. CET
Link for the audience: https://uksw.webex.com/uksw-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5ed24ccc9052667bfd842f0ef66b5eb1
ANNIHILATIN EVIL: SCENES OF FIGHTING, SLAYING, TRAMPLING AND BINDING BAD FORCES IN ART.
4th NOVEMBER of 2022
Starting at 2 pm. CET
Link for the audience: https://uksw.webex.com/uksw-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5ed24ccc9052667bfd842f0ef66b5eb1
Research Interests: Archaeology, Art History, Cult of Saints, Byzantine Studies, Coptic Studies, and 11 moreMedieval Art, Problem of Evil, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Theology of Suffering and Evil, Amulets, Evil in literature, Nubian studies, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, The Problem of Evil and the Existence of God (Brief Essay), Nubian Archaeology, and Angels and Demons
Publication of ten Coptic ostraca by a group of Egyptian students under the direction of the authors. They include three devotional exercises, four letters, two legal texts and one accounting document. They originate, except for one or... more
Publication of ten Coptic ostraca by a group of Egyptian students under the direction of the authors. They include three devotional exercises, four letters, two legal texts and one accounting document. They originate, except for one or two, from the Theban region.
Research Interests:
"The Institutes" of Cassian is considered one of the early Latin monastic literary texts, which played a vital role in presenting the eastern, and more specifically the Egyptian monasticism to the Latin west. This study aimed to explore... more
"The Institutes" of Cassian is considered one of the early Latin monastic literary texts, which played a vital role in presenting the eastern, and more specifically the Egyptian monasticism to the Latin west. This study aimed to explore these texts, where Cassian provided its exemplar as a model to follow in both the newly founded and the already existing western monastic communities in Gaul, and found its way to the Benedictine Rules, which played in its turn, a vital role in defining the western monasticism.
Research Interests: Latin Literature, Asceticism, Monastic Studies, Coptic Studies, Coptic History, and 15 moreMonasticism, History of Monasticism, Ascetical Theology, Coptic Monasteries, Medieval Monasticism, Western Monasticism, John Cassian, Desert Fathers, Desert Fathers spirituality, Early Medieval Monasticism, Benedictine Monasticism, St. John Cassian, Soldiers of Christ, Early Medieval Western Monasticism, and The Rise of Monasticism In Western Mediterranean and the Quest for the Monastic Ideal
It is a collective article under the supervision and with the introduction of Prof. Anne Boud'hors and Esther Garel, with nine other colleagues, to edit ten Coptic ostraca from the collection preserved at the IFAO. These ostraca bear... more
It is a collective article under the supervision and with the introduction of Prof. Anne Boud'hors and Esther Garel, with nine other colleagues, to edit ten Coptic ostraca from the collection preserved at the IFAO.
These ostraca bear different kinds of texts (three devotional exercises; four letters; two legal texts; and an accounting document). Most of them are most probably from the Theban Region, which can give us a glance at the daily life, in that region, in the 7-8th centuries AD.
These ostraca bear different kinds of texts (three devotional exercises; four letters; two legal texts; and an accounting document). Most of them are most probably from the Theban Region, which can give us a glance at the daily life, in that region, in the 7-8th centuries AD.
Research Interests:
This paper discusses the apophthegm Bessarion 12 in the Alphabetical collection of the Apophthegmata Patrum, whether it belongs to Bessarion or Serapion.
Research Interests:
INRODUCTION AND PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE HELD at the University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in Warsaw (4th of November 2022, online) 2.00 pm ─ 9.00 pm CET The conference will be on CISCO WEBEX PLATFORM. Link for the audience:... more
INRODUCTION AND PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE HELD at the University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in Warsaw
(4th of November 2022, online)
2.00 pm ─ 9.00 pm CET
The conference will be on CISCO WEBEX PLATFORM.
Link for the audience:
https://uksw.webex.com/uksw-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5ed24ccc9052667bfd842f0ef66b5eb1
INTRODUCTION
Christianity is a religion based on love because “Love is of God” [1 John 4: 8]. In this world full of love evil appears, its source being the rebellion of the fallen angels. It is spread by Satan and the insidious forces, perversely harassing mortals, so that unable to protect themselves, they turn to God, the angels and the saints for help. To overcome the evil powers they have to be annihilated: trampled underfoot, pierced with a spear or tied up. There is no mercy in this struggle, it must be final, because evil has to be defeated and prevented from recovering. Hence the expressiveness of scenes of a ruthless and ultimate battle with evil.
The aim of the conference is to discuss various aspects of the fight against evil in art and literature, from pre-Christian to modern times. The conference is mainly about Eastern Christianity. It takes into account not only the Christian slayers of evil, but also their predecessors: Horus, Mithras and Perseus. The papers are arranged to show the overlapping and intermingling of different traditions over the centuries.
PROGRAM:
2.00 pm – 2.15 pm - Opening of the Conference
Introduction
2.15 pm – 2.35 pm – Michał Gawlikowski (ret., University of Warsaw)
Mithra and Demons. The paintings in a Syrian Mithraeum
2.35 pm – 2.55 pm – Korshi Dosoo (University of Würzburg)
Annihilating Evil in Coptic Magical Texts
2.55 pm – 3.15 pm – David Frankfurter (Boston University)
Trampling Evil in Image and Practice
3.15 pm – 3.35 pm – Youhanna Matta (The Institute of Coptic Studies in Cairo)
The Spiritual Battle of Ascetics and Martyrs in the Wall Paintings of the Church of St. Antony Monastery by the Red Sea.
3.35 pm – 4.05 pm – Discussion
4.05 pm – 4.30 pm – Break
4.30 pm – 4.50 pm – Delphine Lauritzen (Sorbonne University, Paris)
Perseus and other antique monster-slayers as precursors of the heavenly avengers
4. 50 pm – 5.10 pm – Juraj Franek (Masaryk University, Brno)
'Holy Rider' Magical Amulets from Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium
5.10 pm – 5.30 pm – Stephen Snyder (Boğazci University, Istanbul)
Otherworldly Justice: The Image of St. George Slaying Diocletian.
5.30 pm – 5.50 pm – Magdalena Łaptaś (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
Trampling, Spearing and Binding the Evil Forces in Nubian Mediaeval Painting
5.50 pm – 6.20 pm – Discussion
6.20 pm– 7.20 pm – Break
7.20 pm – 7.40 pm – Tania Tribe (SOAS, University of London)
Fighting the Devil in Ethiopian Art (13th-18th centuries)
7.40 pm – 8.00 pm – Todor Todorov and Vanya Sapundzhieva (St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo)
Images of Diseases as Devils in the icons of Saints-Healers
8.00 pm – 8.20 pm – Magdalena Łanuszka (International Cultural Centre in Krakow)
Mother of God beating the devil: the legend of Theophilus of Adana depicted in Medieval artworks
8.20 pm – 8.50 pm – Discussion
8.50 pm – Conclusions
(4th of November 2022, online)
2.00 pm ─ 9.00 pm CET
The conference will be on CISCO WEBEX PLATFORM.
Link for the audience:
https://uksw.webex.com/uksw-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5ed24ccc9052667bfd842f0ef66b5eb1
INTRODUCTION
Christianity is a religion based on love because “Love is of God” [1 John 4: 8]. In this world full of love evil appears, its source being the rebellion of the fallen angels. It is spread by Satan and the insidious forces, perversely harassing mortals, so that unable to protect themselves, they turn to God, the angels and the saints for help. To overcome the evil powers they have to be annihilated: trampled underfoot, pierced with a spear or tied up. There is no mercy in this struggle, it must be final, because evil has to be defeated and prevented from recovering. Hence the expressiveness of scenes of a ruthless and ultimate battle with evil.
The aim of the conference is to discuss various aspects of the fight against evil in art and literature, from pre-Christian to modern times. The conference is mainly about Eastern Christianity. It takes into account not only the Christian slayers of evil, but also their predecessors: Horus, Mithras and Perseus. The papers are arranged to show the overlapping and intermingling of different traditions over the centuries.
PROGRAM:
2.00 pm – 2.15 pm - Opening of the Conference
Introduction
2.15 pm – 2.35 pm – Michał Gawlikowski (ret., University of Warsaw)
Mithra and Demons. The paintings in a Syrian Mithraeum
2.35 pm – 2.55 pm – Korshi Dosoo (University of Würzburg)
Annihilating Evil in Coptic Magical Texts
2.55 pm – 3.15 pm – David Frankfurter (Boston University)
Trampling Evil in Image and Practice
3.15 pm – 3.35 pm – Youhanna Matta (The Institute of Coptic Studies in Cairo)
The Spiritual Battle of Ascetics and Martyrs in the Wall Paintings of the Church of St. Antony Monastery by the Red Sea.
3.35 pm – 4.05 pm – Discussion
4.05 pm – 4.30 pm – Break
4.30 pm – 4.50 pm – Delphine Lauritzen (Sorbonne University, Paris)
Perseus and other antique monster-slayers as precursors of the heavenly avengers
4. 50 pm – 5.10 pm – Juraj Franek (Masaryk University, Brno)
'Holy Rider' Magical Amulets from Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium
5.10 pm – 5.30 pm – Stephen Snyder (Boğazci University, Istanbul)
Otherworldly Justice: The Image of St. George Slaying Diocletian.
5.30 pm – 5.50 pm – Magdalena Łaptaś (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
Trampling, Spearing and Binding the Evil Forces in Nubian Mediaeval Painting
5.50 pm – 6.20 pm – Discussion
6.20 pm– 7.20 pm – Break
7.20 pm – 7.40 pm – Tania Tribe (SOAS, University of London)
Fighting the Devil in Ethiopian Art (13th-18th centuries)
7.40 pm – 8.00 pm – Todor Todorov and Vanya Sapundzhieva (St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo)
Images of Diseases as Devils in the icons of Saints-Healers
8.00 pm – 8.20 pm – Magdalena Łanuszka (International Cultural Centre in Krakow)
Mother of God beating the devil: the legend of Theophilus of Adana depicted in Medieval artworks
8.20 pm – 8.50 pm – Discussion
8.50 pm – Conclusions