En Sofía mathitéfsantes: Essays in Byzantine Material Culture and Society in Honour of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti

Charikleia Diamanti, Anastasia Vassiliou, Charikleia Diamanti, Anastasia Vassiliou

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781789692624
• eBook ISBN: 9781789692631
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: History

En Sofía mathitéfsantes: Essays in Byzantine Material Culture and Society in Honour of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti contains a collection of thirty studies dedicated to Sophia Kalopissi-Verti by her students which celebrate the multifaceted academic and teaching career of Professor Kalopissi-Verti, Emerita of Byzantine Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The contributions cover a large variety of topics presenting unpublished archaeological material, suggesting new approaches to various aspects of Byzantine archaeology, material culture and art history. Geographically topics span a vast area from Constantinople to South Sinai and from Cyprus and Antiocheia to the Aegean Islands, continental Greece and Italy. Covering the period from the Early Byzantine to the Post-Byzantine period, they are organised in seven thematic sections: Urbanism and Architecture; Painting and Iconography; Stone Carving and Sculpture; Ceramics; Bone, Metal and Textiles; Coinage and Sigillography; Inscriptions, Portraits and Patronage. The broad thematic, chronological and geographic scope of the volume's essays reflects the wide range of Kalopissi-Verti's pioneering research and her own interests, to which she introduced her students and with which she inspired them.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Contents Page
• Foreword
• Back cover
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Charikleia Diamanti and Anastasia Vassiliou
• Sophia Kalopissi-Verti and her Contribution to the Study of Byzantine Art and Archaeology
• Vicky Foskolou
• Publications of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti
• Urbanism and Architecture
• The Reconstruction of Byzantine Lived Spaces: A Challenge for Survey Archaeology*
• Myrto Veikou
• The Kyphes of Chalke: A Primitive Type of Medieval Housing in a Small Island of the Dodecanese*
• Maria Z. Sigala
• Bent Entrances in Fortifications of the Middle and Late Byzantine Period*
• Stavros I. Arvanitopoulos
• ‘Fino al tempo delli Re di Cipro’: Retro-Gothic and Nostalgic Identities in Venetian Cyprus*
• Michalis Olympios
• A Reassessment of the Contribution of Albert Gabriel to the Study of Urban Architecture in Hospitaller Rhodes
• Anna-Maria Kasdagli
• Painting and Iconography
• Entre Constantinople et périphérie: Saint Léon, Évêque de Catane, particulièrement vénéré en Laconie, Péloponnèse*
• Anna Takoumi et Kyriaki Tassoyannopoulou
• The ‘Rose of the Winds’ Illustration in the Exultet I Bari Roll (c. 1025-1034) and its probable Neoplatonic Implications*
• Sophia Germanidou
• The Wall Paintings of the Church of St George Tropaiophoros at Loukisia in Boeotia, Greece (second quarter of the 13th century)
• Giannis Vaxevanis
• The Iconographic Cycle of the Revelation of John at Petra Monastery (1789) near the Village of Katafygio in the Region of Karditsa, Greece*
• Georgios Tsimpoukis
• Stone Carving and Sculpture
• Early Byzantine Marble Vases from Kos Island, Dodecanese, Greece*
• Eirene Poupaki
• Observations on Published and Unpublished Byzantine Sculpted Architectural Members from Corinth*
• Eleni G. Manolessou
• The Synthesis of the Façades of the Church of St John at Keria in Mesa (Inner) Mani: The Role of the Marble Spolia built i to the Walls*
• Angeliki Mexia
• Ceramics
• Quaestura exercitus, the Eparch of the islands and the Late Roman/Early Byzantine Stamped Amphoras*
• Charikleia Diamanti
• The 6th-7th century AD Greek Lamps Phenomenon: An Indication of Regional Identity or a Large-Scale Imitation?*
• Platon Petridis
• Aspects of Medieval Secular Imagery: Representations of Warriors in Byzantine Glazed Pottery from Argos and Nauplio (12th-13th centuries)*
• Anastasia Vassiliou
• Bone, Metal and Textiles
• Dice and Pawns from the Early Byzantine Episcopal Complex at Louloudies of Kitros in Pieria
• Evangelia Angelkou
• A Casket’s Bone Lid from the Early Byzantine Episcopal Complex at Louloudies of Kitros in Pieria*
• Maria Cheimonopoulou
• Early Byzantine Metal Workshops in a Settlement near St Catherine’s Monastery (Mount Sinai, Egypt): Archaeological Evidence and First Results of Laboratory Examinations*
• Dionysios Mourelatos and Anno Hein**
• Weaponry from the Principality of Achaia (1205-1428)*
• Eleni Barmparitsa
• Le vestiaire byzantin comme témoin de l’identité culturelle des Byzantins ainsi que de la réalité politique de l’Empire
• Pari Kalamara
• Coinage and Sigillography
• The Mint of Byzantine Antioch (c. 516-610): Some Remarks on Trends in Provincial Coinage*
• Pavla Gkantzios Drápelová
• Some Unpublished Byzantine Lead Seals from the Private Collection of Zafeiris Syrras (London)*
• Christos Stavrakos and Zafeiris Syrras
• Daniel in the Lions’ Den: An Unknown Palaiologan Numismatic Representation*
• Pagona Papadopoulou
• Inscriptions, Portraits and Patronage
• Kos in the Early and Middle Byzantine Times: The Evidence of Epigraphy*
• Evangelia Militsi-Kechagia
• Verbal Funerary Portraits: Inscriptions and Epigrams as Tomb Decoration in Monuments of the Byzantine Periphery
• Konstantina Tsiorou
• Remarks on Two Middle Byzantine Templon Inscriptions with Curses from Mani*
• Georgios Pallis
• What are the Byzantine Emperor and the Patriarch of Constantinople doing in Aegina? A Historical Interpretation of the Dono Inscription in the Omorphe Ekklesia (1289)
• Vicky Foskolou
• Nikolaos Kourouniotes remembered: A Funerary Portrait from Medieval Leros, Dodecanese
• Konstantia Kefala
• The Church of the Saviour at Mesaria, Telos (Dodecanese) and its Votive Inscription (1423/4)*
• Nikolaos Mastrochristos
• Patronage in Constantinople after 1453
• Nicholas Melvani
• List of Contributors
• Essays in Byzantine Material Culture and Society in Honour of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti
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• Contents
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Sophia Kalopissi-Verti and her Contribution to the Study of Byzantine Art and Archaeology
• Publications of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti
• Urbanism and Architecture
• The Reconstruction of Byzantine Lived Spaces: A Challenge for Survey Archaeology*
• The Kyphes of Chalke: A Primitive Type of Medieval Housing in a Small Island of the Dodecanese*
• Bent Entrances in Fortifications of the Middle and Late Byzantine Period*
• ‘Fino al tempo delli Re di Cipro’: Retro-Gothic and Nostalgic Identities in Venetian Cyprus*
• A Reassessment of the Contribution of Albert Gabriel to the Study of Urban Architecture in Hospitaller Rhodes
• Painting and Iconography
• Entre Constantinople et périphérie: Saint Léon, Évêque de Catane, particulièrement vénéré en Laconie, Péloponnèse*
• The ‘Rose of the Winds’ Illustration in the Exultet I Bari Roll (c. 1025-1034) and its probable Neoplatonic Implications*
• The Wall Paintings of the Church of St George Tropaiophoros at Loukisia in Boeotia, Greece (second quarter of the 13th century)
• The Iconographic Cycle of the Revelation of John at Petra Monastery (1789) near the Village of Katafygio in the Region of Karditsa, Greece*
• Stone Carving and Sculpture
• Early Byzantine Marble Vases from Kos Island, Dodecanese, Greece*
• Observations on Published and Unpublished Byzantine Sculpted Architectural Members from Corinth*
• The Synthesis of the Façades of the Church of St John at Keria in Mesa (Inner) Mani: The Role of the Marble Spolia built i to the Walls*
• Ceramics
• Quaestura exercitus, the Eparch of the islands and the Late Roman/Early Byzantine Stamped Amphoras*
• The 6th-7th century AD Greek Lamps Phenomenon: An Indication of Regional Identity or a Large-Scale Imitation?*
• Aspects of Medieval Secular Imagery: Representations of Warriors in Byzantine Glazed Pottery from Argos and Nauplio (12th-13th centuries)*
• Bone, Metal and Textiles
• Dice and Pawns from the Early Byzantine Episcopal Complex at Louloudies of Kitros in Pieria
• A Casket’s Bone Lid from the Early Byzantine Episcopal Complex at Louloudies of Kitros in Pieria*
• Early Byzantine Metal Workshops in a Settlement near St Catherine’s Monastery (Mount Sinai, Egypt): Archaeological Evidence and First Results of Laboratory Examinations*
• Weaponry from the Principality of Achaia (1205-1428)*
• Le vestiaire byzantin comme témoin de l’identité culturelle des Byzantins ainsi que de la réalité politique de l’Empire
• Coinage and Sigillography
• The Mint of Byzantine Antioch (c. 516-610): Some Remarks on Trends in Provincial Coinage*
• Some Unpublished Byzantine Lead Seals from the Private Collection of Zafeiris Syrras (London)*
• Daniel in the Lions’ Den: An Unknown Palaiologan Numismatic Representation*
• Inscriptions, Portraits and Patronage
• Kos in the Early and Middle Byzantine Times: The Evidence of Epigraphy*
• Verbal Funerary Portraits: Inscriptions and Epigrams as Tomb Decoration in Monuments of the Byzantine Periphery
• Remarks on Two Middle Byzantine Templon Inscriptions with Curses from Mani*
• What are the Byzantine Emperor and the Patriarch of Constantinople doing in Aegina? A Historical Interpretation of the Dono Inscription in the Omorphe Ekklesia (1289)
• Nikolaos Kourouniotes remembered: A Funerary Portrait from Medieval Leros, Dodecanese
• The Church of the Saviour at Mesaria, Telos (Dodecanese) and its Votive Inscription (1423/4)*
• Patronage in Constantinople after 1453
• List of Contributors