Spurensuche Byzanz. Fragmente des Griechischen Mittelalters

History is always incomplete. Which fragments have been handed down follows an interplay of chance and deliberate selection. This also applies to the Byzantine Empire, which dominated the eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. The special exhibition of the Papyrus Museum of the Austrian National Library is devoted to the fragment as an opportunity and a challenge for our understanding of past cultures and our knowledge of Byzantine history: How did physical fragments of older books survive? How were text excerpts placed in new contexts? How do individual documents allow us to reconstruct a complex society?