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Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia
2021Abstract Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia examines the church architecture of Northern Mesopotamia between the fourth and eighth centuries. It focuses on settlements, plan types, artistic encounters, the remarkable continuity of the classical tradition in the architectural decoration, the heterogeneity of the ...
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Veils in Motion: Sacrality, Visuality, and Architectural Textiles in Late Antiquity
The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2022Abstract This article examines a small subset of late antique veil imagery – depictions and descriptions of veils in motion – in visual and literary sources including churches, synagogues, and descriptions of the veil of the temple in Jerusalem. Architectural veils played a role in the demarcation of space, the creation of spectacle and sacrality, and ...
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Late Antique Urban Topography: From Architecture to Human Space
Late Antique Archaeology, 2003Writing about the late antique city is dominated by topographical mapping, architectural studies and site syntheses. These approaches operate within a conception of space as the location of points within an imaginary grid. However, other notions of space exist.
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The Roman and Late Antique architectural remains of Tavium (Galatia)
Anatolia Antiqua, 2004Christof Eva, Koiner Gabriele, Puhm Alexandra. The Roman and Late Antique architectural remains of Tavium (Galatia). In: Anatolia Antiqua, Tome 12, 2004. pp. 187-189.
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A Late Reverberation of Antiquity in Vernacular Architecture of Moravia
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2014This study examines in detail an extinct building tradition in the territory of central and southern Moravia, where the earthen constructions of the Moravian-Pannonian house type were widespread in the lowlands. The greatest attention has been paid to a specific building technology which utilizes cobs, namely mud-lumps called valky.
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Architecture And Church Power In Late Antiquity: Canosa And San Giusto (Apulia)
Late Antique Archaeology, 2006Two Early Christian complexes will be presented here: one urban (San Pietro in Canosa), and one rural (San Giusto in the territory of Lucera). Both cases represent clear evidence of the Christianising policy promoted by the Church in the cities and countryside, especially during the 5th and 6th centuries A.D., which led to a new definition of urban and
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Late Antique Knossos. Understanding the city: evidence of mosaics and religious architecture
The Annual of the British School at Athens, 2004Interpretation of the historical and epigraphical data can only provide a bare outline of the political and social environment of Knossos between the 5th and 7th centuries AD. Consequently, our understanding of late Antique Knossos comes primarily from the excavated remains of two of the Christian basilicas in the Valley; the Sanatorium Basilica and ...
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Architecture of Late Antique/Medieval Rome
Investigations of architecture in the city of Rome during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages have examined the final phases of imperial patronage, the emergence of Christian basilicas, and the development of papal projects that displayed how the bishops competed with secular authorities.openaire +1 more source
The “School of Kos” and architectural koine in the southeastern Aegean during Late Antiquity
2021The building boom of ecclesiastical monumental structures acknowledged on the Dodekanese island of Kos during the Early Christian period was facilitated by the development of a standardized building-yard. Prototyped architectural typologies as well as building techniques and marble mass-produced architectural elements, mainly following ...
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Architectural Decorum and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome, Constantinople, and Ravenna
2018This dissertation explores in the ways in which decorum, or the appropriateness of form and behavior, served as an underlying principle in the patronage, design, and construction of monumental architecture, sculpture, and inscriptions by the aristocratic elite of late antique urban environments.
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