Inter-disciplinary, capacious chronology.
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Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Fish symbol and maritime motifs on late antique lamps from Central Balkans in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Elements of Christian visual culture appeared in
various media in monumental and applied art during the late
antique period, from painted decoration in the catacombs,
through funerary monuments, to utilitarian objects such as
jewellery and lamps. The paper analyses the symbolic meaning
of fish and maritime motifs in the context of the late…[Read more] -
Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Visual Representations of Saint Menas and Saint Thecla: Objects and Sources in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
On a number of pilgrimage objects from Late Antiquity, St Thecla, a highly revered saint, also known as Thecla the Protomartyr, is shown accompanied by St Menas, whose tomb in Egypt was the pilgrimage centre associated with healing miracles. The saintly couple appear in ad bestias compositions or in a simplified variant as two saints with a cross.…[Read more]
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Zoe Tsiami posted an update in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Online Workshop: Late Antique And Medieval Christian Literature
Online Workshop: Late Antique and Medieval Christian Literature
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Zoe Tsiami posted an update in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Orthodox Academy of Crete, Medievalists.net, and the After Constantine Journal are organizing an online conference entitled Early Christmas Customs and Practices, which will take place on Zoom on December 16, 2023, at 17:00 (Athens Time).
See more at: https://www.afterconstantine.com/call-for-papers-early-christmas-customs-practices-online-conference/ -
Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Methodological Imperialism in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Byzantinists have a tendency, implicitly or explicitly, to adopt the analytical perspective of the central state and its imperial class. We ask what helped the empire survive and/or expand, and we judge the success of a given ruler, official, or policy according to this criterion. I term this tendency methodological imperialism.
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Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
In this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
The present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]
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Foteini Spingou deposited Classicizing Visions of Constantinople after 1204: Niketas Choniates’ De Signis in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
The article focuses on one of the most famous accounts of the events of 1204: the De Signis by Niketas Choniates. It demonstrates how Choniates constructed a (semi)fictional account of the assaults against the Byzantine culture and identity through a constellation of symbols and passages drawn from the Greek Classics. The article comprises three…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
This article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Hegemony, Counterpower & Global History. Medieval New Rome & Caucasia in a Critical Perspective in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
This chapter analyses Global Byzantium by situating the medieval empire of New Rome in the history of statehood’s generalisation worldwide. Arguing that statehood remains the implicit mental furniture of History at a macro-civilizational scale, and so more or less at the micro too, the chapter proposes the dual concepts of hegemony and c…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Byzantine-Islamic Scientific Culture in the Astronomical Diagrams of Chioniades on John of Damascus in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Scientific diagrams could and did appear in unexpected places. This essay discusses such an example: the diagrams that the thirteenth- to fourteenth-century scholar George-Gregory Chioniades added to a manuscript of John of Damascus’s Fountain of Knowledge as part of his commentary on the text. I argue that the diagrams were a very important, if…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited The Moon Card of the Tarot Deck May Reprise an Ancient Amuletic Design Against the Evil Eye in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
This paper proposes a novel source for – or at least influence on – the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design aga…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited The iconography on the Paphos IAEW-amulet may draw upon the apotropaic ‘All-Suffering Eye’ motif in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
The paper proposes that the Egyptian-style design on a 5-6th century CE magical amulet discovered at Nea Paphos in Cyprus (Inv. no. PAP/FR 44/2011) draws upon an apotropaic design against the Evil Eye known as the “All-Suffering Eye,” which dates back to the time of the early Roman Empire and is common on Byzantine “Holy Rider” medallions. [No…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited In Mecca’s Backyard in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
Review of The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500–1000, by Timothy Power (American University in Cairo, 2012).
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Alexandre Roberts deposited A Re-translation of Basil’s Hexaemeral Homilies by ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Faḍl of Antioch in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
This chapter examines the eleventh-century Arabic translation of Basil of Caesarea’s Homilies on the Hexaemeron by the translator and theologian ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Faḍl of Antioch. It begins by surveying other late antique and medieval translations of Basil’s Hexaemeron, then lists all manuscripts known to me which are reported to contain an Arabic…[Read more]
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Sasha Zamler-Carhart deposited The Goths & Other Stories in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
In the winter of 476 A.D. the Ostrogoths, hungry and exhausted from wandering for months along the barren confines of the Byzantine Empire, wrote to Emperor Zeno in Constantinople requesting permission to enter the walled city of Epidaurum and just kinda crash and charge their phones. Closer to home, Orpheus walks Eurydice through a suburban…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Framing a Middle Byzantine Alchemical Codex in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
This article analyzes the famous tenth-century Greek alchemical codex Marcianus graecus 299, and in particular its first quire, considering the structure and significance of the manuscript as a whole.
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Nikos Tsivikis deposited Οι μακρινοί πρόγονοι: Η Φιλαδέλφεια της Μικράς Ασίας in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
A chapter on the Late Antique and Byzantine history of Philadelphia in Asia Minor and its monuments.
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Nikos Tsivikis deposited Beyond the Invisible Cities of Byzantium in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
Focusing on the use and abuse in the study of Byzantine archaeology and Urbanism of the idea of the “Invisible Cities” as introduced in literature by Italo Calvino, this article attempts to set a framework for understanding Byzantine cities within clear and scientifically defined analytical categories as part of a modernist agenda. At the same tim…[Read more]
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Maya Maskarinec deposited “Saints for All Christendom: Naturalizing the Alexandrian Saints Cyrus and John in Seventh- to Thirteenth-Century Rome.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017): 337–366 in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
“Saints for All Christendom: Naturalizing the Alexandrian Saints Cyrus and John in Seventh- to Thirteenth-Century Rome.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017): 337–366
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