Inter-disciplinary, capacious chronology.
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Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 6 days, 9 hours 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 days, 9 hours 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 6 months 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 6 months, 1 week 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 9 months, 3 weeks 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 10 months, 2 weeks 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 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 1 year, 10 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, 5 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 2 years, 6 months 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 2 years, 10 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 2 years, 10 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 2 years, 11 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 2 years, 11 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 3 years, 11 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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Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited The Žiča Altar Screen Icons in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
The altar screen mosaic icons were ordered and installed on a new reconstructed altar screen in the Žiča Monastery in 1993. The sketches made by a painter, Mladen Srbinović were approved by a committee consisting of eminent experts. Furthermore , The Serbian Patriarch Paul gave his blessing to the icons. However, soon after they were put up, th…[Read more]
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Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Lamp with the Representation of the Griffin: the Christianisation of Pagan Motifs During late Antiquity in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
The paper deals with the so called griffin lamps. In the group of early Christian bronze lamps, a relatively large number of those with handles in the form of griffin-shaped protome have been preserved. Griffin lamps could be called the prototype of Late Antique production, owing to the manner in which stylistic and iconographic elements of the…[Read more]
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Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Између континуитета и негације – рецепција античких сполија у хришћанској традицији на северу Косова in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
Between Continuity and Negation – Reception of the Ancient Spolia in the Christian Tradition in the North of Kosovo The use of spolia has been recorded on numerous sacred objects in the Northern Kosovo, especially in the micro region around the Roman settlement in Sočanica. Spolia were mostly used for construction and paving; however, their use…[Read more]
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Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Representing Light. Symbolism of Early Christian Lamp Decorations from Central Balkan Region (4th till 7th Centuries)/ Представљање светлости. Симболика украса ранохришћанских светиљки са простора централног Балкана (IV-VII век) in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
The aim of this research, focusing on representations of light and the symbolism of early Christian lamp decorations, has been to examine and summarise the existing knowledge of the symbolism of light in the Mediterranean region and the models by which this symbolism was manifested in the early Christian visual culture. Lamps with Early Christian…[Read more]
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Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Светиљка као симбол у теологији и иконологији светлости на простору Медитерана in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
Lamp as a Symbol in Theology and Iconology of Light in the Mediterranean / Light and fire have been a part of the religious experience since the dawn of civilization, its cultic use can be traced back to as early as the Paleolithic. Seen as divine emanations, light and fire were experienced as a symbol of the divine presence. This symbolism can be…[Read more]
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