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Late Antique Palatine Architecture. Palaces and Palace Culture: Patterns of Transculturation
, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, 213 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:110 b/w, 50 col., 10 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503574721.
Summary Late antique palaces and palace culture served as the loci of dramatic shifts in architecture and design, as well as urban planning, public works and patronage, in the imperial cities of Rome and Constantinople, and the first palatine centres of the Holy Roman Empire. This volume provides a wealth of detailed information and perspectives on late antique and early medieval design practices, with emphasis on the new spatial configurations and their decorative schema. The essays in this collection provide original, ground-breaking narratives on palatine architecture and culture in this period, integrating cross-cultural dialogues from Rome as centre of imperial palace architecture with details of late palace embellishments and the ceremonial usage which was brought to the fore, as the discussion shifts to the new imperial capital of Nova Roma, Constantinople, and then to the Carolingian centres via Rome and Ravenna. A parallel discussion emerges, where prototypes for palaces and ceremonial courts were imported and reinterpreted through a process of citation. Principal interest resides in the contrasts of palatial and residential complexes, intended to demonstrate new ceremonies and the practices enacted within and through them. The focus of the volume is then shifted to eastern and western provincial and rural high-status residences and landscapes of power, examining the relationships between palaces and late Roman villas and the court and court culture, ultimately revealing a political agenda in use through and in the language of architecture. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Preface in commemoration of Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt - Adolf Hoffmann The Palace of the Roman Emperors on the Palatine in Rome - Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt Magna Mater and the pignora imperii: Creating Places of Power - Sarah Wilson The Political Power of the Palace: The Residences of Maxentius in Rome - Elisha Ann Dumser Adapting to a New Concept of Sovereignty: Some Remarks on Tetrarchic Palace Architecture - Dr Verena Jaeschke Diocletian's Palace: Villa, Sacrum Palatium, Villa-Cum-Factory, Chateau? - Josko Belamaric Architecture, Innovation and Economy in the Late Roman Danube-Balkan Region: Palaces and 'Productive Villas' from Pannonia - Lynda Mulvin The porticus post scaenam of Lugdunum Convenarum - Daniel M. Millette The Question of the Survival of Roman Architectural Traditions within the Byzantine Great Palace - Nigel Westbrook 'In More Romano': Medieval Residences of the Holy Roman Empire - Bernd Nicolai Bibliography
Great Palace in Constantinople: An Architectural Interpretation
, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, 333 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:55 b/w, 11 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503568355.
Summary The Byzantine Great Palace, located adjacent to the Hagia Sophia, is arguably the most important Western complex to have disappeared from the architectural archive. Despite this absence, it may be argued that the representational halls of the palace - crown halls, basilicas, and reception halls or triclinia - served as models for the ascription of imperial symbolism, and for emulation by rival political centres. In a later phase of its existence, Byzantine emperors, in turn, looked to the example of Islamic palaces in constructing settings for diplomatic exchange. While the Great Palace has been studied through the archaeological record and Byzantine texts, its form remains a matter of conjecture, however in this study, a novel focus upon the operation of ascription of meaning applied to architectural forms, and their emulation in later architecture will enable a sense of how the forms of the palace were understood by their inhabitants and their clients and visiting emissaries. Through comparative analysis of both emulative models and copies, this study proposes a hypothesis of the layout of the complex both in its physical and social contexts.
