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Architecture and Visual Culture in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean, 2020
The cornice is oftentimes neglected in studies of Byzantine buildings, but cornices are an import... more The cornice is oftentimes neglected in studies of Byzantine buildings, but cornices are an important component of Byzantine architecture that deserves more study. In this article I focus on cornices, especially their potential for the reflection of sound in church buildings and Vitruvius' understanding that cornices might enhance the acoustics of a congregational building.
Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls. Sense Perception in Byzantium. Ed. Susan Ashbrook Harvey & Margaret Mullett, 2017
Edited by sharon e. J. Gerstel Du M ba rton oa k s r e se a rC h l i br a ry a n D Col l e C t ion
"Echoes of Orality in the Monumental Inscriptions of Byzantium", 2007
This article attempts to discuss Byzantine architectural monuments, their relationship to inscrip... more This article attempts to discuss Byzantine architectural monuments, their relationship to inscriptions, and the human interaction surrounding them. My aim is to explore the notion that Byzantine monumental inscriptions could elicit active responses from those who engaged in a kind of dialogue with them. I ask: Can we reconstruct ways in which groups or individuals in Byzantium created their own unique relationships with buildings?
Archaeologies of Memory, 2003
... I am also grateful to Robert Nelson,Walter Kaegi, Matt Canepa and Galina Tirnanic` for lively... more ... I am also grateful to Robert Nelson,Walter Kaegi, Matt Canepa and Galina Tirnanic` for lively discussion and valuable insights at the Late Antique and Byzan-tine Studies Workshop at the University of Chicago, where an earlier version of this text was presented in March of 2001 ...
James/A Companion to Byzantium, 2010
... Who has not acquired a long - lasting memory, conducive to salvation, from fre-quently observ... more ... Who has not acquired a long - lasting memory, conducive to salvation, from fre-quently observing them? (Tarasios: Efthymiades 1998: 194 7). Likewise ... Impost capitals with monogram ofTheodora. Publisher's Note: Image not available in the electronic edition Page 13. ...
The church of the Virgin of Skripou, in Boeotia, offers a remarkable instance of the potential la... more The church of the Virgin of Skripou, in Boeotia, offers a remarkable instance of the potential layering of history as realized in a Byzantine monument. This is initially discernible in the hybrid character of the building, composed as it is of remnants from an earlier time, re-ordered and invested with new meaning at the time of its construction. The subsequent reception of the church in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries likewise serves to highlight the variety and complexity of attitudes projected by contemporary beholders over time. Finally, the church's role within the popular imagination, first as the inheritor of famous antiquities and later as the site of miraculous intervention, has been crucial to its survival and preservation at the hands of a community that has actively cultivated notions of local identity and collective memory.
To the memory of Paul Mylonas, whose scholarship embraced the spectrum of Greece -ancient to modern.
Archaeology of Polis-tes-Chrysochou Cyprus by Amy Papalexandrou
La basilique Sud de Polis-tes-Chrysochou (ancienne Arsinoé), construite à la fin du vi e siècle a... more La basilique Sud de Polis-tes-Chrysochou (ancienne Arsinoé), construite à la fin du vi e siècle apr. J.-C., est une église chypriote typique de la fin de l'Antiquité. Nous discutons ici les modalités des transformations apportées à sa structure et la façon dont ses constructeurs ont résolu les problèmes que présentait ce site, en particulier en ce qui concernait l'eau et son drainage. Nous présentons ici pour la première fois la chronologie du bâtiment à partir des témoignages archéologiques en contexte et non d'une analyse stylistique de sa structure et de ses éléments décoratifs. Nous indiquons brièvement quelques relations possibles avec d'autres édifices de l'île et de la région.
The People of the Ancient Near East, 2012
Reviews by Amy Papalexandrou
Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies, 2018
Edited volume, Contributors include: Peter Jeffery, Aural architecture in Jerusalem, Rome, Consta... more Edited volume, Contributors include:
Peter Jeffery, Aural architecture in Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria
Christina Maranci, The great outdoors: liturgical encounters with the early medieval
Armenian church
Christian Troelsgard, Byzantine chant notation: written documents in an aural tradition
Walter D. Ray, Understanding Liturgy: the Byzantine liturgical commentaries
Ravinder S. Binning, Christ's all-seeing eye in the dome
Lora Webb, Transfigured: mosaic and liturgy at Nea Moni
Laura Steenberge, We who musically represent the cherubim
Ruth Webb, Spatiality, embodiment, and agency in ekphrasis of church buildings
Wieslaw Woszczyk, Acoustics of Hagia Sophia: a scientific approach to the humanities
and sacred space
Jonathan Abel and Kurt James Werner, Live auralization of Cappella Romana at the Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
The Medieval Review, 2017
Architecture and Visual Culture in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean, 2020
The cornice is oftentimes neglected in studies of Byzantine buildings, but cornices are an import... more The cornice is oftentimes neglected in studies of Byzantine buildings, but cornices are an important component of Byzantine architecture that deserves more study. In this article I focus on cornices, especially their potential for the reflection of sound in church buildings and Vitruvius' understanding that cornices might enhance the acoustics of a congregational building.
Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls. Sense Perception in Byzantium. Ed. Susan Ashbrook Harvey & Margaret Mullett, 2017
Edited by sharon e. J. Gerstel Du M ba rton oa k s r e se a rC h l i br a ry a n D Col l e C t ion
"Echoes of Orality in the Monumental Inscriptions of Byzantium", 2007
This article attempts to discuss Byzantine architectural monuments, their relationship to inscrip... more This article attempts to discuss Byzantine architectural monuments, their relationship to inscriptions, and the human interaction surrounding them. My aim is to explore the notion that Byzantine monumental inscriptions could elicit active responses from those who engaged in a kind of dialogue with them. I ask: Can we reconstruct ways in which groups or individuals in Byzantium created their own unique relationships with buildings?
Archaeologies of Memory, 2003
... I am also grateful to Robert Nelson,Walter Kaegi, Matt Canepa and Galina Tirnanic` for lively... more ... I am also grateful to Robert Nelson,Walter Kaegi, Matt Canepa and Galina Tirnanic` for lively discussion and valuable insights at the Late Antique and Byzan-tine Studies Workshop at the University of Chicago, where an earlier version of this text was presented in March of 2001 ...
James/A Companion to Byzantium, 2010
... Who has not acquired a long - lasting memory, conducive to salvation, from fre-quently observ... more ... Who has not acquired a long - lasting memory, conducive to salvation, from fre-quently observing them? (Tarasios: Efthymiades 1998: 194 7). Likewise ... Impost capitals with monogram ofTheodora. Publisher's Note: Image not available in the electronic edition Page 13. ...
The church of the Virgin of Skripou, in Boeotia, offers a remarkable instance of the potential la... more The church of the Virgin of Skripou, in Boeotia, offers a remarkable instance of the potential layering of history as realized in a Byzantine monument. This is initially discernible in the hybrid character of the building, composed as it is of remnants from an earlier time, re-ordered and invested with new meaning at the time of its construction. The subsequent reception of the church in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries likewise serves to highlight the variety and complexity of attitudes projected by contemporary beholders over time. Finally, the church's role within the popular imagination, first as the inheritor of famous antiquities and later as the site of miraculous intervention, has been crucial to its survival and preservation at the hands of a community that has actively cultivated notions of local identity and collective memory.
To the memory of Paul Mylonas, whose scholarship embraced the spectrum of Greece -ancient to modern.
La basilique Sud de Polis-tes-Chrysochou (ancienne Arsinoé), construite à la fin du vi e siècle a... more La basilique Sud de Polis-tes-Chrysochou (ancienne Arsinoé), construite à la fin du vi e siècle apr. J.-C., est une église chypriote typique de la fin de l'Antiquité. Nous discutons ici les modalités des transformations apportées à sa structure et la façon dont ses constructeurs ont résolu les problèmes que présentait ce site, en particulier en ce qui concernait l'eau et son drainage. Nous présentons ici pour la première fois la chronologie du bâtiment à partir des témoignages archéologiques en contexte et non d'une analyse stylistique de sa structure et de ses éléments décoratifs. Nous indiquons brièvement quelques relations possibles avec d'autres édifices de l'île et de la région.
The People of the Ancient Near East, 2012
Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies, 2018
Edited volume, Contributors include: Peter Jeffery, Aural architecture in Jerusalem, Rome, Consta... more Edited volume, Contributors include:
Peter Jeffery, Aural architecture in Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria
Christina Maranci, The great outdoors: liturgical encounters with the early medieval
Armenian church
Christian Troelsgard, Byzantine chant notation: written documents in an aural tradition
Walter D. Ray, Understanding Liturgy: the Byzantine liturgical commentaries
Ravinder S. Binning, Christ's all-seeing eye in the dome
Lora Webb, Transfigured: mosaic and liturgy at Nea Moni
Laura Steenberge, We who musically represent the cherubim
Ruth Webb, Spatiality, embodiment, and agency in ekphrasis of church buildings
Wieslaw Woszczyk, Acoustics of Hagia Sophia: a scientific approach to the humanities
and sacred space
Jonathan Abel and Kurt James Werner, Live auralization of Cappella Romana at the Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
The Medieval Review, 2017
Speculum, 2005
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