The Apse, the Image and the Icon

An Historical Perspective of the Apse as a Space for Images

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This book deals with the apse as a showcase for images in the early Christian and early Byzantine periods. Two opposed traditions, harking back to early imperial times, nourished the invention of the Christian apse image: on the one hand …

Spätantike und byzantinische Elfenbeinbildwerke im Diskurs

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Aus dem Inhalt:
Arun Banerjee: Non-destructive Investigation of Ivory by FTIR and Raman Spectroscopy - Gudrun Bühl: The Making of Early-Byzantine Pyxides - Jean-Pierre Caillet: Remarques sur l’iconographie Christo-Mariale des grands diptyques d’ivoire du VIe siècle. Incidences éventuelles quant à leur …

Justinianische Kämpferkapitelle mit einem Dekor aus Paaren von Zweigen und die Nachfolgekapitelle im Veneto

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The capitals in the colonnades of the central room of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul are called `impost capitals with attached volutes'. They are important pieces of stone-mason's art in the sixth century a. C. The book presents a survey …

Architektur und Liturgie

Akten des Kolloquiums vom 25. bis 27. Juli 2003 in Greifswald

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This book unites most of the papers which were held during the colloquium „Architecture and Liturgy“ in Greifswald in 2003. The articles are dealing with the relationship of architecture and liturgy during the time spanning from the Late Antiquity to …

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 …

Frühbyzantinische textile Kopfbedeckungen

Typologie, Verbreitung, Chronologie und soziologischer Kontext nach Originalfunden

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The analysis of archaeological textiles in order to write their ancient cultural history is still in its infancy. This study contributes to this process by cataloging more than 600 original pieces of headwear from the late Roman and early Byzantine …

Stadtbelagerung in der Spätantike – das Berliner Holzrelief

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Since the first publication about it in 1901, this unique wooden relief has been attributed to the Coptic maker because it was discovered in Egypt. The precise meaning of its richly detailed and impressive imagery, however, had remained shrouded in …

Kapitelle des 11.-13. Jahrhunderts im Veneto

als Nachgestaltungen antiker und spätantik/frühbyzantinischer Modelle und das „revival“ im Kirchenbau

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Im Säulenschmuck von mittelalterlichen Kirchen und Palästen in den Orten des Veneto wurden Kapitelle römisch-antiker und frühbyzantinischer Zeit wiederverwendet. Dazu kommen u. a. mittelalterliche Kapitelle, die als Nachahmungen der älteren anzusehen sind und an denen eine eigene Formsprache zu finden …

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 …

San Vitale in Ravenna and Octogonal Churches in Late Antiquity

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This book examines the octagonal churches of Late Antiquity from the origins of the type in the fourth century to its sixth-century culmination in its most famous example, the church of San Vitale in Ravenna. The buildings, limited in number …

Die byzantinische Sakralarchitektur der Dunklen Jahrhunderte

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Die Dunklen Jahrhunderte, die Zeit zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter, gelten als dorniges Terrain der byzantinischen Architekturgeschichte. So überrascht es nicht, dass diese Epoche meist als bloße Vorstufe mittel- und spätbyzantinischer Entwicklungen abgetan wird. Eine neue Perspektive, die nicht nur Nachfolgendes, …

Das unverrückbar Heilige – Jerusalems Loca Sancta in der Kreuzfahrerzeit

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Jerusalem's immovable loca sancta - the places sanctified by Christ's presence - were last fundamentally remodelled in the Crusader period, adapting them to the demands of the new age. This new approach resulted from a combination of innovation and historicity, …

Der Senat und seine Kaiser im spätantiken Rom

Eine kulturhistorische Annäherung

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This study focusses on the Roman Senate and its relation to the Emperors, taking a long-term perspective. The starting point is the observation, that the senators as a body held their sessions continuously from the 1st to the 6th century …

Transforming Sacred Spaces

New Approaches to Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture from the Transitional Period

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Die Kirchen der Dunklen Jahrhunderte, der Zeit zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter, wurden lange Zeit recht stiefmütterlich behandelt. Zwar hat man sich schon früh für die in dieser Zeit vollzogenen nachhaltigen Veränderungen interessiert und nach deren Ursachen geforscht, doch wurden die …

Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte

Identity and cultural exchange in ancient Cilicia: New results and future Perspectives Internationales Kolloquium 18. – 19. Mai 2018 in München

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The publication on Rough Cilicia "Identity and cultural Exchange in Ancient Cilicia: New Results and Future Perspectives" combines the results of a workshop held at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in May 2018. It contains a series of individual studies that …