Author: Arja KarivieriPublisher:
ISBN: 9789526850023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The Early Christian Basilica of Arethousa in Macedonia I
Author: Arja KarivieriPublisher:
ISBN: 9789526850023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Early Christianity in Macedonia
Author: Julien M. OgereauPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004681205
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In this volume Julien M. Ogereau investigates the origins and development of Christianity in the Roman province of Macedonia in the first six centuries CE. Drawing from the oldest literary sources, Ogereau reconstructs the earliest history of the first Christian communities in the region and explores the legacy of the apostle Paul in the cities of Philippi, Thessalonica, and Beroea. Turning to the epigraphic and archaeological evidence, Ogereau then examines Christianity’s dissemination throughout the province and its impact on Macedonian society in late antiquity, especially on its epigraphic habits and material culture.
Patrons and Viewers in Late Antiquity
Author: Stine BirkPublisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN: 8771244174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Antiquity was a multi-cultural and multi-religious world. Meetings and interactions between cultures in East and West, and the consequent widespread exchange of ideas had an enormous impact on cultural practices and the creation of identities. These cultural diversities are reflected by both the archaeological material and the written sources. Patrons of luxurious buildings, elaborate grave monuments, and churches used architecture and images to demonstrate political, social and religious power. These buildings and their embellishment with sculpture, mosaics and paintings were strong factors in communicating identity and attitudes both in the public and private spheres. The continuous production of mythological sculpture and mosaics coexisted, sometimes peacefully other times with violent consequences, with an increasing influence from new philosophical mind sets originating in the East, such as Christianity. In this period of rapid social and religious change new patrons appeared, such as bishops, who were responsible for the construction of churches commemorating the Christian triumph. The seminar focuses on the way patrons, pagan as well as Christian, conveyed messages through material culture and the responses of the viewers.
Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire?
Author: Archibald DunnPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000929477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This volume offers a structured presentation of the progress of research into the internal history of a part of the Byzantine world – Greece – in the centuries before the multiple changes induced or accelerated by the Fourth Crusade. Greece is a large area (several Early andMiddle Byzantine provinces), with records, archival, literary, archaeological, architectural, and art-historical, most of which are unequalled in terms of their density and range. This creates opportunities for useful synthesis, and for dialogue with those now engaged in the rewriting, or writing, of the inner history of Byzantium, from Italy to the Caucasus, who have been stimulated by, or involved in, the editing of archives and inscriptions (including sigillographic), and in the publication of monuments, excavations, and surveys (for all of which the ‘Greek space’, the elladikê khôra, is a particular, and fertile, focus of activity, as the conference showed). Much of the material presented here can usually only be found in specialised publication, and indeed much in Greek alone. But, properly contextualised, this material about the ‘Greek space’ deserves to be brought into the dialogues or debates at the heart of Byzantine Studies, for instance about the Late Antique ‘boom’, urban life, the ‘Dark Age’, economic change, the nature of the ‘Byzantine revival’, and of social, socio-economic, and ethnic groups. The studies here synthesise such research, enabling the ‘Greek space’ as a case study in the evolution of a significant region to the west of Constantinople, to take its place more fully as a point of reference in such dialogues or debates. Equally, it provides frameworks for archaeologists dealing with Greece from Late Antiquity onwards – and there are now many – with which to engage, and it makes available a rich source of comparative material for those studying the other regions of the Byzantine world, whether historically or archaeologically, in Southeastern Europe, Italy, or Turkey.
Negotiation, Collaboration and Conflict in Ancient and Medieval Communities
Author: Christian KrötzlPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000567826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Focusing on forms of interaction and methods of negotiation in multicultural, multi-ethnic and multilingual contexts during Antiquity and the Middle Ages, this volume examines questions of social and cultural interaction within and between diverse ethnic communities. Toleration and coexistence were essential in all late antique and medieval societies and their communities. However, power struggles and prejudices could give rise to suspicion, conflict and violence. All of these had a central influence on social dynamics, negotiations of collective or individual identity, definitions of ethnicity and the shaping of legal rules. What was the function of multicultural and multilingual interaction: did it create and increase conflicts, or was it rather a prerequisite for survival and prosperity? The focus of this book is society and the history of everyday life, examining gender, status and ethnicity and the various forms of interaction and negotiation.
The Emergence of the Christian Basilica in the Fourth Century
Author: James Riley StrangePublisher: Global Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9781586840327
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Explores why the Christian basilica emerged.
The Early Christian Basilicas of Stobi
Author: Carolyn Sue SnivelyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Basilicas
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Early Christian Mosaic Pavements in Macedonia
Author: Elizabeta DimitrovaPublisher:
ISBN: 9786084646204
Category : Mosaics, Early Christian
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Annexes at the Early Christian Basilicas of Greece (4th-6th C.)
Author: Athanassios MailisPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Limited
ISBN: 9781407308951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This study presents a synthetic approach to the study of architectural form and function of annexes to early Christian basilicas on the Greek mainland and Crete (4th 6th centuries AD). The introductory section is in two parts: the first deals with the state of the research on sacristies (described as diaconica in Greek literature) and baptisteries. The part presents the liturgical and ecclesiastical sources from the early Christian period that illuminate (or obscure) the liturgical functions of certain parts of the church. The main part of the study comprises a catalogue of the monuments, which are registered in the five different dioceses of the Helladic area. Finally, the third part presents summarized conclusions, among which is the existence of eight individual types of annexes: 1) Baptisteries, 2) Sacristies, 3) Chapels, 4) Episcopal complexes, 5) Porches, 6) Rooms with domestic/agricultural function, 7) Towers/Staircases, 8) Funerary annexes.
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