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Νέα ̔Ρώμη 19, 2022

This article presents two twelfth-century deeds of sale produced in the Sicilian Val Demone, wher... more This article presents two twelfth-century deeds of sale produced in the Sicilian Val Demone, where a majority Greek population, tenacious of Byzantine tradition, resided. Both documents are drawn up according to Greek legal norms, but include notes of confirmation and validation, written in Arabic, which utilise and adapt legal formulae and styles established in the Islamic legal sphere. Each, in its different way, points to a certain synthesis, or fusion, of Greek-Byzantine and Muslim practice, and a juridical multiculturalism that one can find also in other inter-religious contexts.

Rilettura storico letteraria dell'epistola del monaco Teodosio, testimonianza sulla conquista... more Rilettura storico letteraria dell'epistola del monaco Teodosio, testimonianza sulla conquista arabo-musulmana della Sicilia bizantina.Une nouvelle analyse litt\ue9raire et historique de la Lettre de Th\ue9dose le Moine, t\ue9moignage unique sur la prise de Syracuse en 827

Presentazione dell'edizione di 53 documenti greci medievali inediti, rilevanti per lo studio ... more Presentazione dell'edizione di 53 documenti greci medievali inediti, rilevanti per lo studio del diritto, dell'economia, della lingua e della cultura greca medievale nel Mezzogiorno normanno-svevo.Presentation of the edition of 53 unpublished medieval Greek documents, relevant for the study of law, economics, language and medieval Greek culture in the Norman-Swabian South

Il documento d'archivio simbolo e cifra del potere anche quando questo si declina nella sfera... more Il documento d'archivio simbolo e cifra del potere anche quando questo si declina nella sfera del diritto privato. Una pergamena greca del 1141 attesta la donazione di reliquie sacre in favore dell'Archimandritato di Messina: autori e destinatari, testimoni, formulario e lessico bizantini concorrono a una precisa sceneggiatura del dispositivo politico normanno nell'epoca in cui Ruggero II e il suo ministro Giorgio di Antiochia hanno fatto delle forme mutuate dall'impero bizantino un raffinato strumento di regno.The archive document is the symbol and figure of power even when this is declined in the sphere of private law. A Greek parchment of 1141 attests the donation of sacred relics in favor of the Archimandritate of Messina: authors and recipients, witnesses, formulary and Byzantine lexicon contribute to a precise script of the Norman political device in the era in which Roger II and his minister Giorgio of Antioch have made of the forms borrowed from the Byzantine Empire a refined instrument of the kingdom

An unedited quotation from the prologue of Justinian Institutiones in a Greek byzantine poem (XII... more An unedited quotation from the prologue of Justinian Institutiones in a Greek byzantine poem (XII c.) wrote by an Anonymous author, which was close to the court of Roger II, allows to investigate the Byzantine legal and literary texts tradition in Norman Sicily.

Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes. Journal of medieval and humanistic studies, 2014

Multilingual and Multigraphic Documents and Manuscripts of East and West, 2018

This paper concerns twelfth- and thirteenth-century deeds drawn up in Greek in an area where the ... more This paper concerns twelfth- and thirteenth-century deeds drawn up in Greek in an area where the hellenophone presence was deeply rooted. The Church and Greek monastic institutions continued to exert widespread influence, and the Byzantine cultural tradition was even more persistent. Document analysis supports two interpretive paths from which multilingual phenomena can be singled out and studied. (1) Social interactions. Through these legal transactions social interaction are represented through writing in one of the three official languages of the kingdom, Greek, Latin or Arabic. (2) The language of the documents. Written deeds translate legal procedure into a special language. Laws, formulas and clauses guarantee the validity of both the action and the engraphon which that action demonstrates and warrants. The Greek language in the document, therefore, has its own vocabulary, syntax and rhetoric. Some scholars deem the Greek language of these Southern Italian documents artificial but coarse, whereas others consider it early evidence of the transition from medieval to modern Greek; it was certainly exposed to contacts with and loans from other linguistic sources, but it was also embroidered with erudite and outdated terms, hinting at the consultation of lexicons

This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy, the area from which we have inherited... more This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy, the area from which we have inherited the richest and best-preserved historical evidence among all of the regions of the former Eastern Roman Empire up to the 11th century. The collection aims to provide readers with a critical overview of current research as well as new insights concerning political, institutional, economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects of the Italian regions under Byzantine rule. The methodological approach of the volume combines history with archaeology and art history, while remaining focused on the general framework of the early medieval Mediterranean. The result is a fresh and up-to-date synthesis that can be useful both for specialists and students.

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, 2008

Studio storico linguistico e paleografico di documenti d'archivio calabresi del secolo XII.Hi... more Studio storico linguistico e paleografico di documenti d'archivio calabresi del secolo XII.Historical, linguistic and paleographical essai on greek documents established in normand Calabria (XII c.

A Companion to Byzantine Italy, 2021

Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 2014

Référence électronique Cristina Rognoni, « Pratique juridique grecque et économie dans la Calabre... more Référence électronique Cristina Rognoni, « Pratique juridique grecque et économie dans la Calabre post-byzantine (XII e-XIII e siècle) », Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes [

Une des plus riches recueils de documents prives rediges en langue grecque au moyen age (XI e- XI... more Une des plus riches recueils de documents prives rediges en langue grecque au moyen age (XI e- XIV e siecles), ici pour la premiere fois transcrits selon la methode diplomatique, est la source d'un travail critique qui concerne a la fois le processus de la documentation, la genese du texte, sa langue et son autonomie semantique, la circonstance qui l'a produit et sa fonction. Des typologies diverses de chartes privees - ventes, donations, testaments, echanges - ont ete analyses dans le detail afin d'y degager, et d'expliquer, le rapport complexe entre action et documentation, norme et pratique, histoire des institutions et evenements du vecu social qui sont l'origine et la riche problematique d'un texte de la pratique juridique. Dans cette etude, l'expression linguistique choisie par les scribes des actes, sa correspondance a la lettre du juridique et son effort pour s'adapter aux exigences d'un ordre social morcelle, riche de tradition et de puls...

S.Cosentino, M. E. Pomero, G. Vespignani (a cura di), Dialoghi con Bisanzio. Spazi di discussione, percorsi di ricerca. Atti dell'VIII Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini (Ravenna 22-25 settembre 2015), pp. 943-961). Spoleto, Fondazione CISAM , 2019

An unedited quotation from the prologue of Justinian Institutiones in a Greek byzantine poem (XI... more An unedited quotation from the prologue of Justinian Institutiones in a Greek byzantine poem (XII c.) wrote by an Anonymous author, which was close to the court of Roger II, allows to investigate the Byzantine legal and literary texts tradition in Norman Sicily.

Νέα ̔Ρώμη 19, 2022

This article presents two twelfth-century deeds of sale produced in the Sicilian Val Demone, wher... more This article presents two twelfth-century deeds of sale produced in the Sicilian Val Demone, where a majority Greek population, tenacious of Byzantine tradition, resided. Both documents are drawn up according to Greek legal norms, but include notes of confirmation and validation, written in Arabic, which utilise and adapt legal formulae and styles established in the Islamic legal sphere. Each, in its different way, points to a certain synthesis, or fusion, of Greek-Byzantine and Muslim practice, and a juridical multiculturalism that one can find also in other inter-religious contexts.

Rilettura storico letteraria dell'epistola del monaco Teodosio, testimonianza sulla conquista... more Rilettura storico letteraria dell'epistola del monaco Teodosio, testimonianza sulla conquista arabo-musulmana della Sicilia bizantina.Une nouvelle analyse litt\ue9raire et historique de la Lettre de Th\ue9dose le Moine, t\ue9moignage unique sur la prise de Syracuse en 827

Presentazione dell'edizione di 53 documenti greci medievali inediti, rilevanti per lo studio ... more Presentazione dell'edizione di 53 documenti greci medievali inediti, rilevanti per lo studio del diritto, dell'economia, della lingua e della cultura greca medievale nel Mezzogiorno normanno-svevo.Presentation of the edition of 53 unpublished medieval Greek documents, relevant for the study of law, economics, language and medieval Greek culture in the Norman-Swabian South

Il documento d'archivio simbolo e cifra del potere anche quando questo si declina nella sfera... more Il documento d'archivio simbolo e cifra del potere anche quando questo si declina nella sfera del diritto privato. Una pergamena greca del 1141 attesta la donazione di reliquie sacre in favore dell'Archimandritato di Messina: autori e destinatari, testimoni, formulario e lessico bizantini concorrono a una precisa sceneggiatura del dispositivo politico normanno nell'epoca in cui Ruggero II e il suo ministro Giorgio di Antiochia hanno fatto delle forme mutuate dall'impero bizantino un raffinato strumento di regno.The archive document is the symbol and figure of power even when this is declined in the sphere of private law. A Greek parchment of 1141 attests the donation of sacred relics in favor of the Archimandritate of Messina: authors and recipients, witnesses, formulary and Byzantine lexicon contribute to a precise script of the Norman political device in the era in which Roger II and his minister Giorgio of Antioch have made of the forms borrowed from the Byzantine Empire a refined instrument of the kingdom

An unedited quotation from the prologue of Justinian Institutiones in a Greek byzantine poem (XII... more An unedited quotation from the prologue of Justinian Institutiones in a Greek byzantine poem (XII c.) wrote by an Anonymous author, which was close to the court of Roger II, allows to investigate the Byzantine legal and literary texts tradition in Norman Sicily.

Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes. Journal of medieval and humanistic studies, 2014

Multilingual and Multigraphic Documents and Manuscripts of East and West, 2018

This paper concerns twelfth- and thirteenth-century deeds drawn up in Greek in an area where the ... more This paper concerns twelfth- and thirteenth-century deeds drawn up in Greek in an area where the hellenophone presence was deeply rooted. The Church and Greek monastic institutions continued to exert widespread influence, and the Byzantine cultural tradition was even more persistent. Document analysis supports two interpretive paths from which multilingual phenomena can be singled out and studied. (1) Social interactions. Through these legal transactions social interaction are represented through writing in one of the three official languages of the kingdom, Greek, Latin or Arabic. (2) The language of the documents. Written deeds translate legal procedure into a special language. Laws, formulas and clauses guarantee the validity of both the action and the engraphon which that action demonstrates and warrants. The Greek language in the document, therefore, has its own vocabulary, syntax and rhetoric. Some scholars deem the Greek language of these Southern Italian documents artificial but coarse, whereas others consider it early evidence of the transition from medieval to modern Greek; it was certainly exposed to contacts with and loans from other linguistic sources, but it was also embroidered with erudite and outdated terms, hinting at the consultation of lexicons

This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy, the area from which we have inherited... more This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy, the area from which we have inherited the richest and best-preserved historical evidence among all of the regions of the former Eastern Roman Empire up to the 11th century. The collection aims to provide readers with a critical overview of current research as well as new insights concerning political, institutional, economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects of the Italian regions under Byzantine rule. The methodological approach of the volume combines history with archaeology and art history, while remaining focused on the general framework of the early medieval Mediterranean. The result is a fresh and up-to-date synthesis that can be useful both for specialists and students.

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, 2008

Studio storico linguistico e paleografico di documenti d'archivio calabresi del secolo XII.Hi... more Studio storico linguistico e paleografico di documenti d'archivio calabresi del secolo XII.Historical, linguistic and paleographical essai on greek documents established in normand Calabria (XII c.

A Companion to Byzantine Italy, 2021

Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 2014

Référence électronique Cristina Rognoni, « Pratique juridique grecque et économie dans la Calabre... more Référence électronique Cristina Rognoni, « Pratique juridique grecque et économie dans la Calabre post-byzantine (XII e-XIII e siècle) », Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes [

Une des plus riches recueils de documents prives rediges en langue grecque au moyen age (XI e- XI... more Une des plus riches recueils de documents prives rediges en langue grecque au moyen age (XI e- XIV e siecles), ici pour la premiere fois transcrits selon la methode diplomatique, est la source d'un travail critique qui concerne a la fois le processus de la documentation, la genese du texte, sa langue et son autonomie semantique, la circonstance qui l'a produit et sa fonction. Des typologies diverses de chartes privees - ventes, donations, testaments, echanges - ont ete analyses dans le detail afin d'y degager, et d'expliquer, le rapport complexe entre action et documentation, norme et pratique, histoire des institutions et evenements du vecu social qui sont l'origine et la riche problematique d'un texte de la pratique juridique. Dans cette etude, l'expression linguistique choisie par les scribes des actes, sa correspondance a la lettre du juridique et son effort pour s'adapter aux exigences d'un ordre social morcelle, riche de tradition et de puls...

S.Cosentino, M. E. Pomero, G. Vespignani (a cura di), Dialoghi con Bisanzio. Spazi di discussione, percorsi di ricerca. Atti dell'VIII Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini (Ravenna 22-25 settembre 2015), pp. 943-961). Spoleto, Fondazione CISAM , 2019

An unedited quotation from the prologue of Justinian Institutiones in a Greek byzantine poem (XI... more An unedited quotation from the prologue of Justinian Institutiones in a Greek byzantine poem (XII c.) wrote by an Anonymous author, which was close to the court of Roger II, allows to investigate the Byzantine legal and literary texts tradition in Norman Sicily.

Documenting Multiculturalism is a new research project (2017–2023) based at the University of Oxf... more Documenting Multiculturalism is a new research project (2017–2023) based at the University of Oxford and the Università degli Studi di Palermo and funded by an Advanced Grant of approximately €2.5 million from the European Research Council.

The project will investigate comprehensively and systematically the coexistence of the diverse confessional, ethnic and linguistic communities of the island of Sicily under Norman and Hohenstaufen rule — Arabic-speaking Muslims and Jews, Greek Christians, and Latin Christians.

It will investigate:
• the legal foundations upon which the coexistence of the subject communities rested;
• the nature, extent and results of cultural, linguistic and social interactions between them;
• and variation in the above, from time to time c. 1060 – c. 1266, and from place to place within the island.

The ambitious objective is to create the fundamental tools to study, and to begin to write, the history of the subject communities of Norman Sicily from the bottom up, using documentary rather than narrative sources, and illustrating as far as possible the full variety in space and time.

The project will do this by making new critical editions of all of the administrative and legal documents for Norman Sicily, in the three principal administrative languages — Arabic, Greek and Latin. These texts will populate a database, to which further data from the non-documentary sources will be added. The database will then be used to generate a series of powerful electronic research tools, which will be both the means to meet the ends of this particular project, and ends in themselves that will revolutionise the future study of all aspects of the history of Norman Sicily.

At the end of the project, a series of summative studies will document, analyse and discuss different aspects of coexistence and popular multiculturalism in Norman Sicily, and set the case of Sicily in the wider Mediterranean context.

What is distinctive about this project is that not only the publication of its research objectives, but also the tools that it will create in order to achieve them, will revolutionise the future study of all aspects of the cultural, economic and social history of Norman Sicily.

For further information visit <http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/documult/index.php/en/>

L'incontro di studi, organizzato dall'Università di Palermo, Dipartimento Culture e Società, vuo... more L'incontro di studi, organizzato dall'Università di Palermo, Dipartimento Culture e Società, vuole ricordare la nostra amica e collega, Fabiola Ardizzone, e il suo impegno per la ricerca archeologica in Sicilia. Si tratta di riflettere in una prospettiva diacronica che va dal tardoantico all’epoca normanna, a partire dai principali nodi tematici che hanno interessato lo studio di Fabiola e contribuire con ciò a una sintesi, a un bilancio delle ricerche in corso, in campo archeologico e storico economico.

This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy, the area from which we have inherited... more This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy, the area from which we have inherited the richest and best-preserved historical evidence among all of the regions of the former Eastern Roman Empire up to the 11th century. The collection aims to provide readers with a critical overview of current research as well as new insights concerning political, institutional, economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects of the Italian regions under Byzantine rule. The methodological approach of the volume combines history with archaeology and art history, while remaining focused on the general framework of the early medieval Mediterranean. The result is a fresh and up-to-date synthesis that can be useful both for specialists and students.