Byzantine Studies

The ‘Place of Palms’: An Urban Park at Aphrodisias

Results of The Mica and Ahmet Ertegün South Agora Pool Project

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Excavations at Aphrodisias in the 1980s revealed an extraordinary monumental water-basin (170 x 30m) in the centre of a colonnaded square, formerly called the ‘South Agora’. A hypothesis that the complex was not an agora at all but ‘the place …

Die Wahl des koptisch-orthodoxen Patriarchen Ägyptens vom 8. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert durch das Los und andere Methoden

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The election of a suitable successor to a deceased patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt always marks an important turning point in the everyday life of this oriental church. Since 1957, its head has been chosen by lot …

Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices at the Civil Basilica in Aphrodisias

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Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices was inscribed on the façade of the city’s Civil Basilica in AD 301. The volume presents the history and background of the Edict, the detailed archaeology of its context on the Basilica, a new consolidated …

Late Byzantine Rings, 1204–1453

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“Late Byzantine Rings, 1204-1453” is the first study of the rings of the last years of the Byzantine Empire, the period encompassing the Latin occupation of Constantinople (1204–1261) and the restored empire under the Palaiologan rulers until the fall of …

Die antike Stadt im Umbruch

Kolloquium in Darmstadt, 19. bis 20. Mai 2006

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This volume covers the conference “The Ancient City in Transition,” which was held in May 2006 in Darmstadt, Germany. The central theme is the change and design of urban space during Late Antiquity, a period particularly marked by upheavals. In …

Funktion und Nutzung der Krypta im Mittelalter

Heiligsprechung und Heiligenverehrung am Beispiel Italien

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Under the lasting influence of romantic-mystic views of the 19th and 20th century the function of a crypt within the structure of a church is still a matter of false interpretation. This book discusses on basis of a broad range …

Byzanz, der Westen und das »wahre« Kreuz

Die Geschichte einer Reliquie und ihrer künstlerischen Fassung in Byzanz und im Abendland

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Seit der legendären, früh mit Kaiserin Helena in Verbindung gebrachten Auffindung des Passionskreuzes Christi in Jerusalem, gehören Reliquien des so gennanten ‚wahren‘ Kreuzes zu den heilsgeschichtlich bedeutendsten Objekten der Christenheit. Gegenstand des vorliegenden Buches ist die Geschichte dieser in Byzanz …

Byzantinischer Schmuck des 9. bis frühen 13. Jahrhunderts

Untersuchungen zum metallenen dekorativen Körperschmuck der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit anhand datierter Funde

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Byzantine luxury objects have been neglected in research for a long time, despite the legendary reputation they already held during the Middle Ages. This volume analyses the gold, silver and bronze jewellery of the 9th to early 13th centuries in …

Das Buch und die vier Ecken der Welt

Von der Hülle der Thorarolle zum Deckel des Evangeliencodex

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Starting with a detailed iconographic analysis of the four angles (gammadia) placed in the four corners of the book covers gifted by the Lombard queen Theodelinda to the basilica San Giovanni in Monza (ca. 600 a. D.) the study tries …

Das Wort im Bild

Untersuchung zu den Ikonographien von Mönchen und Märtyrern in Ägypten und zu ihren Grundlagen in der koptischen Hagiographie

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In the Coptic Church, numerous pictorial representations with Christian content attest their deep significance for the Coptic faith. In order to give expression to individual motifs, individual passages from various texts were transformed into works of representational art, and thus …

Die Christianisierung der Städte der Provinz Scythia Minor

Ein Beitrag zum spätantiken Urbanismus auf dem Balkan

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Until the 7th century, the province Scythia Minor, situated between the mouth of the Danube and the Western shore of the Black Sea, was an important military and ecclesiopolitical outpost of Constaninople. At the same time, this region was a …

Die Baugeschichte der Sophienkirche in Sofia

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The unique architecture of the Hagia Sophia Church in Sofia, Bulgaria, gives it a prominent role not only in the history of the city, which assumed the name of the church, but also in the architectural history of the Balkan …

The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia

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This book represents the first detailed study of Byzantine churches on the island of Sardinia. The buildings are described and analyzed in detail both individually and as a group. Many of these churches are cruciform in plan and possess a …

Visionserwartung

Visualisierung und Präsenzerfahrung des Göttlichen in der Spätantike

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The book identifies the central role of the visions of God in late antique society, arguing that expectation of visions (“Visionserwartung”) structured much of late antique life. The author demonstrates that through images and spaces, late antique people created encounters …

Sakrale Zonen im frühen Kirchenbau des Nahen Ostens

Zum Kommunikationspotenzial von Bodenmosaiken für die Schaffung heiliger Räume

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Angesichts des neutestamentlichen Standpunkts, wonach Gott nicht in Tempeln wohne, die von Menschenhand geschaffen wurden, ist es keineswegs selbstverständlich, dass Kirchen als Sakralbauten zu werten sind. Dennoch hat sich diese Vorstellung bereits früh etabliert. Davon zeugen Schriftquellen, aber auch Bodenmosaiken, …

Die Kniga palomnik des Antonij von Novgorod

Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar

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This book contains the first study of the text transmission of the Kniga palomnik by Anthony of Novgorod. From the philological perspective, the edition offers a new text basis for further research into the characteristics, the transmission and reception of …