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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.
Architectural Elements, Wall Paintings, and Mosaics
Final Publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project IV
The Decapolis city of Jerash has long attracted attention from travellers and scholars due both to the longevity of the site and the remarkable finds uncovered during successive phases of excavation that have taken place from 1902 onwards. Between 2011 and 2016 a Danish-German team led by the universities of Aarhus and Münster focused their attention on the Northwest Quarter of Jerash - the highest point within the walled city - and this is the fourth in a series of books presenting the team’s final results.
This two-part set offers a comprehensive presentation of Jerash’s rich building heritage from the Late Hellenistic period up to the city’s destruction in the mid-eighth century ad through a discussion of architectural elements together with analysis of the mosaics wall paintings and building ceramics excavated from the Northwest Quarter. As well as providing a general overview of the city’s changing patterns of habitation the contributions gathered here also include close case- studies and object biographies that shed new light on the intense use reuse and recycling of materials that testify to evolving urban practices and optimization of resources across the Roman Byzantine and Islamic periods.
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.
Spoliation as Translation
Medieval Worlds of the Eastern Mediterranean
The articles gathered in this special issue of Convivium offer a variety of perspectives - history of medieval art architecture literary studies - that explore the relations between spoliation and translation with a particular focus on the interconnections and similarities between material/artistic and textual/literary cultures. Building on current research in spolia and translation studies these contributions respond to the increasing interest in and popularity of these two topics in recent scholarship. A conceptual point of departure is that reuse and translation represent two crucial processes facilitating cultural dialogues and exchanges across time and space. Material and textual spolia fascinate us because they provide various means and levels of engagement with the past with a tangible form sometimes of an ambivalent nature. Objects artefacts buildings and texts have been subject to constant reworkings through which they have been interpreted and translated: old stories gain new significance in new contexts just as old objects gain new meanings in new settings. The aim of this collection is to foster a better understanding of such processes and at the same time of the history of the medieval worlds of the Eastern Mediterranean which is marked by constant cross-cultural encounters and interactions.
Architecture and Visual Culture in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean
Studies in Honor of Robert G. Ousterhout
This book comprises sixteen essays addressing issues of art and architecture together with archaeology within the context of sacred space broadly defined. It encompasses a wide range of territories methodologies perspectives and scholarly concerns. Our point of departure is the built environment with all that this entails including religious and political ceremony painted interiors patronage contested spaces structural and environmental concerns sensory properties the written word as it pertains to architectural projects and imagined spaces. In all the scholars involved in this project find fresh approaches and uncover new meanings and interpretations in the material examined within this volume including buildings and objects from Europe to Asia and spanning from Late Antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages.
Epirus Revisited. New Perceptions of its History and Material Culture
From the Thematic Session "Epirus Revisited" of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016
The opening of the borders of Albania in the 1990s stimulated an increased interest in its cultural heritage and led to extensive research as well as archaeological investigations. These however have mainly concentrated within Albania's present-day borders and have lacked broader contextualization. Very recent excavations in Greece which resulted from the construction of the new Ionia Odos highway have however brought to light unexpected and interesting material that changes our image of the monumental topography and the settlements in Epirus. New studies concerning Epirus and its broader connections during the early and later Ottoman periods provide a broader impression of the region and its relationships with the large economic centres of the West as well as with the spiritual-religious and political centres of the Balkans.
Les églises rupestres de la région des lacs d’Ohrid et de Prespa, milieu du XIIIe - milieu du XVIe siècle
Pratiquer le culte dans des grottes nest pas un phénomène inconnu à Byzance. Néanmoins chaque région possède ses propres caractéristiques et cette étude des monuments rupestres de la région des lacs dOhrid et de Prespa souligne leurs particularités. Vingt-trois églises datant du milieu du e au milieu du e siècle ont été recensées et étudiées du point de vue architectural iconographique stylistique et épigraphique. Lieux saints fondés pour des raisons diverses ces chapelles ont connu de nombreuses transformations et elles o rent des indices permettant déclairer plusieurs aspects de lart et de la société de cette région au Moyen Âge.
Retirées dans des endroits solitaires ces chapelles ont toutefois eu un rôle actif dans les pratiques cultuelles des diverses communautés et notamment des moines de la noblesse locale des dignitaires ecclésiastiques et du peuple. Les peintures des églises rupestres dOhrid et de Prespa témoignent des changements stylistiques et iconographiques ainsi que de la circulation des peintres entre les divers centres artistiques de lEmpire ( essalonique Constantinople Kastoria Ohrid Pélagonia). Le croisement de tous ces courants artistiques con rme le rôle central que cette région avait dans la société et dans lhistoire médiévale balkanique.
Des 'domus ecclesiae' aux palais épiscopaux
Actes du colloque tenu à Autun du 26 au 28 novembre 2009
The discovery on the archeological site of the former cathedral group of Autun of the probable remains of the domus ecclesiae mentioned in the VIIth century led to an examination of the question of these structures with multiple functions and a study of their development as they are very often at the origin of episcopal palaces as it is clearly the case in Autun.
It is moreover at Autun itself in the bishop’s palace that this conference was held from November 26 to 28 2009. The fourteen presentations joined together here which concern European cases as well as those from the whole of the Mediterranean world tend to define more fully the character of early episcopal residences in respect to buildings for worship to comprehend their design and to follow their evolution. They also underline the difficulty of the interpretation of the textual and archaeological data when they exist.