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Actes de la Journée d’Études en mémoire du professeur Noël Duval
Le professeur Noël Duval à la forte personnalité a marqué le renouveau des études sur l’antiquité tardive. Se consacrant plus particulièrement à l’Afrique romaine et byzantine il en a étudié l’histoire tardive et l’archéologie en particulier celle des églises paléochrétiennes. Mais ses intérêts se sont portés aussi sur la Gaule à la fin de l’antiquité et plus largement à l’ensemble du bassin méditerranéen. Sa disparition en 2018 a été incontestablement une grande perte. Ses amis et ses élèves ont tenu à honorer sa mémoire en rassemblant un recueil de contributions scientifiques sur des sujets sur lesquels il avait travaillé mais aussi en évoquant sa mémoire et sa personnalité.
Ideology and Patronage in Byzantium
Dedicatory Inscriptions and Patron Images from Middle Byzantine Macedonia and Thrace
Based on the evidence of epigraphic material in combination with monumental painting this book explores important dedicatory inscriptions (9th-beginning of the 13th c.) from Macedonia and Thrace which have so far been investigated mainly from a philological-historical standpoint thus neglecting the major issue of Middle Byzantine patronage. Through patron inscriptions and textual sources the role and the motives of military officials in the patronage of defensive and fortification works and the manner of publicizing them are examined systematically. Patronage is looked at through the ideological messages that the donors endeavor to promote in a local society or monastic community and which echo their relationship with the state and their views on education and faith. Interesting methodologically is the co-examination of the various categories of inscriptions in combination with historical texts and donor portraits which opens up new avenues of research for the study of the interdisciplinary material in question.
Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art
Correspondence, 1920–1957
The American art historian Bernard Berenson born in 1865 is famous for his pioneering studies of the Italian Renaissance but his work on Byzantine art remains less well-known and less studied. Yet his passion for studies of Byzantium - dubbed the ‘Byzantine infection’ - played a major role throughout Berenson’s life and in the 1920s he began work on a magnum opus on this topic that was sadly never completed. This volume aims to illuminate and revisit Berenson’s approach to Byzantium and the art of the Christian East through an exploration and analysis of the correspondence travel notes and photo archive that Berenson built up over his lifetime and that taken together clearly points to an explicit recognition by Berenson of the importance of Byzantine art in the Latin Middle Ages. Drawing together Berenson’s correspondence with art historians collectors and scholars from across Europe the US and the Near East together with an overview of his numerous photography campaigns the book is able to open a new window into Byzantine art historiography from the 1920s to the 1950s. In doing so it sheds light onto a period in which important discoveries and extensive restoration campaigns were carried out such as those of the mosaics of Hagia Sophia and Kariye Camii in Istanbul as well as of the Basilica of San Marco in Venice and its decoration.
Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204
The Evidence of Art and Material Culture
Based on the evidence of artistic production and material culture this collective volume aims at exploring cross-cultural relations and interaction between Greeks and Latins in late medieval Greece in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. Fourteen essays discuss mostly new and unpublished archaeological and artistic material including architecture sculpture wall-paintings and icons pottery and other small finds but also the evidence of music and poetry. Through the surviving material of these artistic activities this volume explores the way Byzantines and Latins lived side by side on the Greek mainland and the Aegean islands from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries and traces the mechanisms that led to the emergence of the new composite world of the Latin East. Issues of identity patronage papal policy the missionary activities of the Latin religious orders and the reactions and responses of the Byzantines are also re-considered offering fresh insights into and a better understanding of the various manifestations of the interrelationship between the two ethnicities confessions and cultures.
Discipuli dona ferentes
Glimpses of Byzantium in honour of Marlia Mundell Mango
In recognition and celebration of the achievements of Marlia (Maria Cordelia) Mundell Mango as a researcher and as a teacher twelve of her doctoral students offer her this volume of collected essays showcasing recent research in Byzantine archaeology and material culture studies. The essays are divided into three sections. The first comprises studies on Byzantine economy shipping road networks production and trade from Late Antiquity down to the time of the Crusades. The studies in the second part discuss facets of the material culture and the lifestyle especially of the upper social strata in the Byzantine Empire while those of the final section explore aspects of artistic creativity in the lands of the empire. Taken together these diverse studies offer ‘glimpses’ into the Byzantine economy and trade lifestyle and religion ideology and identity artistic creativity and its impact beyond the Byzantine frontier illustrating a variety of methodological approaches and pointing towards new directions for future research. Their wide chronological geographic and thematic coverage is in itself a tribute to Marlia Mango’s breadth of knowledge and a reflection of her far-ranging research interests.
L'icône dans la pensée et dans l'art
Constitutions, contestations, réinventions de la notion d'image divine en contexte chrétien
La synonymie icône − image divine − objet de culte a toujours posé problème. Évidente pour les Byzantins vainqueurs dans la crise qui a opposé les adorateurs des icônes au parti des iconoclastes elle est cependant contestée aussi bien par les Latins malgré les vertus pédagogiques qu’ils ont assignées aux images que par nombre de communautés chrétiennes orientales habituées à accorder un pouvoir divin aux objets de culte et aux reliques. Cette synonymie repose toutefois sur l’un des principes fondateurs du christianisme : le rapport entre la connaissance de Dieu et le statut de l’homme « image de Dieu ».
Les études ici réunies ne sont pas focalisées sur le seul dossier des crises iconoclastes byzantines et des ripostes latines mais se déploient sur trois moments historiques du christianisme. Dans ses deux premières parties le volume propose un croisement des perspectives grecque puis byzantine et latine romaine puis carolingienne sur le monde visible et l’image. La troisième partie réfléchit sur les modalités par lesquelles le monde slave héritier de Byzance prend à son compte les fonctions religieuses et politiques assignées à l’image sous l’appellation d’icône en en faisant l’un de ses principaux repères identitaires.
Chacun des articles étudie les implications de l’image dans la réflexion sur le divin et en retour l’impact de cette réflexion sur la configuration de l’image elle-même. La relation mutuelle entre théologie et image que celle-ci soit visuelle ou purement noétique est au cœur de cet ouvrage.