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Christian Archaeology
Spätklassische und frühhellenistische Gefäßkeramik aus Priene
Formuntersuchung, Kontext und soziokulturelle Interpretation
Based on a series of late classical and early Hellenistic find contexts from the urban area of Priene, the provenance as well as cultural-historical issues regarding the pottery...
Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte
The Spoliated Past: Heritage, Antiquarianism, and Byzantine Material Culture Across Time and Space
The articles in this volume seek to shed new light on frequently overlooked archaisms and acts of spoliation. This book is about ideas, style, and material objects, their reuse...
Flavius Josephus and Artwork of Roman Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Flavius Josephus and Artwork of Roman Antiquity and the Early Middle Age demonstrates how the writings of the first-century Judaean historian influenced the genesis, nature and...
Die Wahl des koptisch-orthodoxen Patriarchen Ägyptens vom 8. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert durch das Los und andere Methoden
The election of a suitable successor to a deceased patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt always marks an important turning point in the everyday life of this oriental...
Editor: Heinzelmann, Michael
Amiternum 1
Untersuchungen zur Siedlungs- und Wirtschaftsstruktur im zentralen Abruzzenraum in römischer Zeit
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Amiternum, wichtiger Zentralort der Sabiner im oberen Aterno-Tal und Geburtsstätte Sallusts, entwickelte sich...
The Mosaics of Roger II in Sicily
Visualizing Sacred Authority
The ideas for this book emerged in direct eye contact with the mosaics on the scaffolds of the Cappella Palatina and the Martorana in Palermo and the Cathedral of Cefalù. With...
Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity
A Journey on the Trail of Apostles, Martyrs and Local Saints
Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity is a journey of discovery of the rich religious landscape of Cilicia in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity, with its contrasting and...
The Creation of the Illustrated Octateuch
The illustrated Octateuch is among the most complex creations of the Middle Byzantine period. The Septuagint text of the first eight books of the Old Testament contains hundreds...
Purpur in Byzanz
Privileg und Würdeformel
As a supplement to the studies mentioned above and in response to the persistent desideratum of the few pictorial sources that have been analysed, this work focuses on the...
Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte 8-2021
Imaginum orbis. Bilderwelten zwischen Spätantike und Byzanz. Festschrift anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags von Johannes G. Deckers
This book is a commemorative publication on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Johannes G. Deckers, former professor of Byzantine art history at the...
Monogrammkapitelle
Die justinianische Bauskulptur Konstantinopels als Textträger
In this study, the capital series of the Hagia Sophia, the Sergios and Bakchos Churches and the Irene Church are systematically examined for the first time. In addition, the...
Das unverrückbar Heilige – Jerusalems Loca Sancta in der Kreuzfahrerzeit
Jerusalem's immovable loca sancta - the places sanctified by Christ's presence - were last fundamentally remodelled in the Crusader period, adapting them to the demands of the new...
Transforming Sacred Spaces
New Approaches to Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture from the Transitional Period
Die Kirchen der Dunklen Jahrhunderte, der Zeit zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter, wurden lange Zeit recht stiefmütterlich behandelt. Zwar hat man sich schon früh für die in...
Der Senat und seine Kaiser im spätantiken Rom
Eine kulturhistorische Annäherung
This study focusses on the Roman Senate and its relation to the Emperors, taking a long-term perspective. The starting point is the observation, that the senators as a body held...
Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte
Identity and cultural exchange in ancient Cilicia: New results and future Perspectives Internationales Kolloquium 18. – 19. Mai 2018 in München
The publication on Rough Cilicia "Identity and cultural Exchange in Ancient Cilicia: New Results and Future Perspectives" combines the results of a workshop held at the...
Die byzantinische Sakralarchitektur der Dunklen Jahrhunderte
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Die Dunklen Jahrhunderte, die Zeit zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter, gelten als dorniges Terrain der...
Atene e il sacco di Silla
Evidenze archeologiche e topografiche fra l’86 e il 27 a.C.
The work investigates the building history of Athens between the siege and ransacking by Sulla in 86 BC and the establishment of the province of Archaia in AD 27.
After an...
Sakrale Zonen im frühen Kirchenbau des Nahen Ostens
Zum Kommunikationspotenzial von Bodenmosaiken für die Schaffung heiliger Räume
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Angesichts des neutestamentlichen Standpunkts, wonach Gott nicht in Tempeln wohne, die von Menschenhand...
San Vitale in Ravenna and Octogonal Churches in Late Antiquity
This book examines the octagonal churches of Late Antiquity from the origins of the type in the fourth century to its sixth-century culmination in its most famous example, the...
Visionserwartung
Visualisierung und Präsenzerfahrung des Göttlichen in der Spätantike
The book identifies the central role of the visions of God in late antique society, arguing that expectation of visions (“Visionserwartung”) structured much of late antique life....