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From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages Urban Public Building in Northern and Central Italy, AD 300-850
Ward-Perkins, Bryan: From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages Urban Public Building in Northern and Central Italy, AD 300-850. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1984. 286 pages, not illustrated. Hardback.
Cultic Graffiti in the Late Antique Mediterranean and Beyond
, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, xx + 192 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:108 b/w, 21 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503593111.
Summary Graffiti, scratched or drawn on the walls of religious shrines, provide unique unmediated evidence of how ordinary men and women, many of them pilgrims, invoked and sought the help of God and the saints in Late Antiquity. The papers in this volume document and discuss cultic graffiti across the entire late antique Mediterranean, and into Nubia and Arabia. The principal focus is the Christian world, but there are also papers that look back to pre-Christian practice, and into the world of early Islam. Presenting evidence that is often unfamiliar, this is an important volume for anyone interested in the History and Archaeology of Late Antiquity. In examining cultic practice, we are almost always compelled to view the actions of devotees through texts written by the ecclesiastical elite, often with a clear hagiographical agenda in mind - cultic graffiti are evidence produced by the protagonists themsleves. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction - ANTONIO E. FELLE AND BRYAN WARD-PERKINS Graffiti in Religious Spaces in First-Century Pompeii: Lararia, Neighborhood Shrines, and Graffiti in the Early Roman Empire - REBECCA BENEFIEL Contextualizing Christian Pilgrim Graffiti in the Late Antique Holy Land - MARLENA WHITING Jewish Devotional Graffiti and dipinti in the Holy Land - LEAH DI SEGNI 'Slave of the Apostle Philip': Byzantine Graffiti from Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey) - FRANCESCO GUIZZI Late Antique Christian Graffiti: The Case of Rome (Third to Fifth Century CE) - ANTONIO E. FELLE At the Origins of European Pilgrimage: The Devotional Graffiti of the Anglo-Saxons in Rome (Seventh-Ninth Centuries) - CARLO CARLETTI Inscribing Space in Christian Egypt - JACQUES VAN DER VLIET Graffiti from Christian Egypt and the Cult of the Saints: A Case Study from Dayr Ab? ?innis - ALAIN DELATTRE Pilgrims and Seafarers: A Survey of Travellers' Graffiti from the Aegean Islands - PAWE? NOWAKOWSKI Associational Religion in Late Antiquity? Professional Groups, Factions, and Confraternities in Christian Cultic Graffiti - EFTHYMIOS RIZOS Religious Graffiti from Early Islam in Arabia and the Near East - FR D RIC IMBERT Cultic Graffiti in Christian Nubia (Sixth to Fifteenth Century) - ADAM ?AJTAR Inscriptions, Graffiti, Graffiti Devotionis Causa: Some Concluding Notes and Reflections - ANTONIO E. FELLE Graffiti and Religion: Some Concluding Remarks and Perspectives - BRYAN WARD-PERKINS
Interacting with Saints in the Late Antique and Medieval Worlds
, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 282 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:7 b/w, 20 col., Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503605586.
Summary The cult of saints is one of the most fascinating religious developments of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Christians admired martyrs already in the second century, but for a long time they perceived them only as examples to follow and believed they could pray directly to God, whom they addressed as 'Our Father'. A new attitude toward saints, now considered above all as powerful friends of God and efficient intercessors, started to emerge in the third century. Once this process gained momentum in the Constantinian era, the cult of saints constantly changed and rapidly adapted to new conditions and demands. This evolution highlighted many factors: the popularity of specific saints and the different types of sanctity, the spread of cults and customs, and the ways in which the saints were described, visualised, and represented. This volume seeks to capture the dynamic of these adaptations, showing both those aspects of cult which evolved quickly and those which remained stable for a long time. It studies the evolution of the cults in a broad period from the third to the seventh centuries and in various regions from Gaul to Georgia, with a particular interest in the two greatest centres of the cult of saints: Rome and Constantinople. In response to changing needs and different circumstances, new generations of believers repeatedly modified the cults of established saints, even as they introduced new saints. TABLE OF CONTENTS Robert Wi?niewski: Introduction I. Seeing and Hearing the Saints Robin M. Jensen: Icons as Relics: Relics as Icons Maria Lidova: Placing Martyrs in the Apse: Visual Strategies for the Promotion of Saints in Late Antiquity Julia Doroszewska: Saintly In-betweeners: The Liminal Identity of Thekla and Artemios in their Late Antique Miracle Collections Arkadiy Avdokhin: Resounding Martyrs: Hymns and the Veneration of Saints in Late Antique Miracle Collections Xavier Lequeux: Les saints myroblytes en Orient et en Occident jusqu' l'an mil: Prol gom nes l'histoire d'un ph nom ne miraculeux II. Local and Cosmopolitan Cults Andr s Handl: Reinvented by Julius, Ignored by Damasus: Dynamics of the Cult of Callixtus in Late Antique Rome Stephanos Efthymiadis: The Cult of Saints in Constantinople (Sixth-Twelfth Century): Some Observations Anna Lampadaridi: The Origins and Later Development of the First Italo-Greek Hagiographies: The Dossiers of the Sicilian Martyrs Agatha, Lucia, and Euplus III. Constructing Paradigms Ian Wood: The Lives of Episcopal Saints in Gaul: Models for a Time of Crisis, c. 470-550 Micha? Pietranik: Saints and Sacred Objects in Eastern Roman Imperial Warfare: The Case of Maurice (582-602) Nikoloz Aleksidze: Martyrs, Hunters and Kings: The 'Political Theology' of Saints' Relics in Late Antique Caucasia
