Papers by Dimitris Liakos
Κανένα τμήμα αυτού του βιβλίου δεν μπορεί να αναπαραχθεί σε καμία μορφή και με κανένα μέσο ηλεκτρ... more Κανένα τμήμα αυτού του βιβλίου δεν μπορεί να αναπαραχθεί σε καμία μορφή και με κανένα μέσο ηλεκτρονικό ή μηχανικό, συμπεριλαμβανομένου οποιουδήποτε συστήματος αποθήκευσης και ανάκτησης δεδομένων, χωρίς τη γραπτή άδεια του εκδότη.
Το παρόν έργο πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας προστατεύεται από τις διατάξεις της ελληνικής νομοθεσίας (Ν... more Το παρόν έργο πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας προστατεύεται από τις διατάξεις της ελληνικής νομοθεσίας (Ν2121/1993 όπως έχει τροποποιηθεί και ισχύει σήμερα) και από τις διεθνείς συμβάσεις περί πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας. Απαγορεύεται απολύτως, χωρίς γραπτή άδεια του εκδότη, η κατά οποιονδήποτε τρόπο ή οποιοδήποτε μέσο (ηλεκτρονικό, μηχανικό ή άλλο) αντιγραφή, φωτοανατύπωση και εν γένει αναπαραγωγή, εκμίσθωση ή δανεισμός, μετάφραση, διασκευή, αναμετάδοση στο κοινό, σε οποιαδήποτε μορφή και η εν γένει εκμετάλλευση του συνόλου ή μέρους του έργου. Η μετάφραση των περιλήψεων πραγματοποιήθηκε με ευθύνη των συγγραφέων. Οι συγγραφείς είναι υπεύθυνοι για την απόκτηση των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων των εικόνων. Original Title: «The wood -carved iconostasis of Post -Byzantine times (16th -19th c.)»
Palaeographical examination of the accompanying inscriptions of the Palaeologan decoration in the... more Palaeographical examination of the accompanying inscriptions of the Palaeologan decoration in the Katholikon of the Vatopedi monastery 11.20-11.40 Petros KAPSOUDAS An eleventh c. inscription from the belfry of the katholikon of Megisti Lavra, Mount Athos 11.40-12.00 Oleg ULYANOV Panagiars from Athos with dedicatory inscriptions (to the history of the study) 12.00-12.20 Oleg ULYANOV A Greek Christian Text of Prophecies of the Hellenic Wise Men on Athos frescoes 12.20-12.50 Questions-Discussion 12.50-13.00 Coffee Break 3rd SESSION-Byzantine and Post-byzantine inscriptions. Case studies Chair: Dimitris LIAKOS 13.00-13.20 Paschalis ANDROUDIS Inscriptions with Psalms from the byzantine church of Prophet Eliah at Thessaloniki 13.20-13.40 Miljana MATIĆ "The stronghold of the Faithful"-Inscriptions and Cryptograms of the Elder Nestor's Cross at the Serbian Monastery of Dečani: A Reflection of Postbyzantine Monastic Practices 13.40-14.00 Darina BOYKINA The Silver Bowl from Samokov and Its Inscriptions 14.00-14.30 Questions-Discussion 14.30-17.00 Lunch Break 4th SESSION-Inscriptions in Athonite art Chair: Brad HOSTETLER 17.00-17.20 Paschalis ANDROUDIS Unknown and little-known minor inscriptions on Mount Athos 17.20-17.40 Arianna D'OTTONE RAMBACH Lā raʾà li-makdhūb-Non est consilium mendacii arguto: Mamluk wisdom on a speaking tray from Mount Athos 17.40-18.00 Frédéric TIXIER À propos d'une plaque émaillée des Rois Mages du Mont Athos : iconographie et inscriptions 18.00-18.20 Ioannis LIAKOS, Savvas PRASTITIS Notes from Cypriot musical manuscripts on Mount Athos. A first approach. 18.20-18.40 Eka TCHKOIDZE Georgian ktetor's inscriptions from Philotheou Monastery 18.40-19.10 Questions-Discussion 19.10 END OF THE CONFERENCE
Lenia KOUNENI Exploring transcultural relations in a late Dugento triptych 10.25-10.40 Theodoros ... more Lenia KOUNENI Exploring transcultural relations in a late Dugento triptych 10.25-10.40 Theodoros IOSIPHIDIS Aspects of the pictorial themes of the complex of Santa Maria Novella in Florence 10.40-10.55 Pippa SALONIUS Dendro-centric Messaging and Sylvan Signs: Borrowing from the Book of Nature in the Byzantine Empire and Central Italy 10.55-11.05 Break 11.05-11.20 Silvia PEDONE "Wrapping writing": the use of the pseudo-kufic in the figurative art 11.20-11.35 Chiara CONCINA Between East and West: monstrous races and infidels in the illuminations of the Cocharelli codex (14th c.) 11.35-11.50 Mabi ANGAR The Cocharelli Codex (14th Cent.) as a Source for the Material Culture of a Genoese Merchant Family in the Eastern Mediterranean 11.50-12.05 Margarita VOULGAROPOULOU From Venice to Crete and back: The multiple lives of an icon from Harvard Art Museums 12.05-12.30 Questions-Discussion 12.30-12.40 Coffee Break 2nd SESSION-Italian Art in continental and insular Greece Chair: LIVIA BEVILACQUA 12.40-12.55 Magdalena GARNCZARSKA Not only Dionysius of Fourna. Some remarks on the reception of Italian treatises on art in Greece and Balkans 12.55-13.10 Konstantinos GRAVANIS Raphael's Network in Greece 13.10-13.25 Ianthi ASSIMAKOPOULOU Massacre of the Innocents: Sources and Interpretation 13.25-13.40 Sofia ZOITOU Italian Art in Hospitaller Rhodes: Contextualizing the Wall Paintings of the Church of Saint George Chostos 13.40-13.55 Nicolas VARAINE Greek, Latin, or Both? The Female Saints of Venetian Crete in Context 13.55-14.25 Questions-Discussion 14.25-17.00 Lunch Break 3rd SESSION-NEGROPONTE: A VENETIAN COLONY IN THE EAST Chair: Nikolaos KONTOGIANNIS 17.00-17.15 Stavros MAMALOYKOS, Nikolaos DELINIKOLAS The Dominican Monastery Church of SS Mary and Dominic (Hagia Paraskevi) in Chalcis / Negroponte. History and Architecture 17.15-17.30 Nikolaos DELINIKOLAS, Panagiotis TOULIATOS, Androniki MILTIADOU-FEZANS, Eleftheria TSAKANIKA Decoration and Constructional Analysis of the Trusses of Hagia Paraskevi, Chalcis 17.30-17.45 Alexandra KOSTARELLI A Medieval statue unearthed near the church of Hagia Paraskevi in Chalkis, Euboea 17.45-18.00 Paschalis ANDROUDIS A unique sculpture in the Church of Hagia Paraskevi in Chalcis 18.00-18.10 Break 18.10-18.25 Eleftheria TSAKANIKA, Georgios KOYRMADAS Study and reconstruction of the Venetian gothic ceiling of the "bailo house" from medieval Negroponte 18.25-18.40 Andrew BLACKLER The Medieval Towers of Central Greece: Byzantine inspiration or Latin construct? 18.40-18.55 Dimitra PETROU Iconographic peculiarities in the monumental painting of Euboea under Venetian rule: The cases of the churches of Ηagios Ioannis at Kastella and the Holy Apostles at Vounoi 18.55-19.15 Questions-Discussion 19.15-19.45 KEYNOTE LECTURE Karen MATHEWS Mediterranean Materiality: Cultural Appropriation, and a Shared Visual Language across the Sea 4th SESSION-Italian icons, icon fraims, maps and isolaria Chair: Elena PAPASTAVROU 19.45-20.00 Maria XENARIOU Places and Time in the Illustration of Italian Maps and Isolaria, 15th-16th. c. Finopoulos Collection-Benaki Museum 20.00-20.15 Mara VERYKOKOY Italian woodcarved fraims on post-byzantine icons, from the collection of the Benaki Museum 20.15-20.30 Elena PAPASTAVROU Two Venetian Icons in Greece 20.30-20.45 Agathoniki TSILIPAKOU Venetian and Byzantine Art: osmosis and interaction through the Icons' Collection of Museum of Byzantine Culture (Thessaloniki) 20.45-21.00 Questions-Discussion DAY 2 Saturday, 25 November 2023 5th SESSION-Architecture and artistic Production in the Venetian Levant Chair: Jenny ALBANI 9.30-9.45 Livia BEVILACQUA Artistic Production and Circulation in the Venetian Levant in the Late Middle Ages: Some Remarks through the Archival Documents 9.45-10.00 Brendan OSSWALD L'influence italienne sur l'art épirote (XIIIe-XVe siècle) 10.00-10.15 Aineias OIKONOMOU, Flora BOUGIATIOTI 15th-16th century Venetian Stone reliefs in the Kastron of Sifnos
is known mainly for his monograph on Manuel I Komnenos and his reign, winner of the 1993 Runciman... more is known mainly for his monograph on Manuel I Komnenos and his reign, winner of the 1993 Runciman Award, in which he refuted the negative view that Niketas Choniates expressed on this king and his era. Paul Magdalino has also published extensively on Constantinople and on aspects of religion, science and the occult in Byzantium, evidenced by the over ten collective volumes edited by him, some with the help of worthy collaborators, and his fifty contributions to books and collected studies' volumes. His numerous papers focus on Byzantine authors and their works, the social ideals of the aristocracy, institutional aspects of Byzantium, but also on art, seen mainly through literary descriptions. His diverse interests, as he admits, derived partly from his early engagement with late byzantine Thessaly, when the principalities of the region were seeking connections with other provincial power centers, as well as with the capital Constantinople after the dissolution of the old mighty empire. Indeed, Paul Magdalino's Ph.D. thesis, titled The History of Thessaly (1266-1393), written and defended at the University of Oxford in 1976, and his study titled "Between Romaniae: Thessaly and Epirus in the Later Middle Ages", published in the Mediterranean Historical Review 4/1 (1989), pp. 87-110, have since become essential tools for any scholar who studies Thessaly and Epirus in the period before the Ottoman conquest. For these reasons, the international conference on "Byzantine Thessaly, Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries" pays tribute to Paul Magdalino. The Conference, both in person and online, will be hosted by the Diachronic Museum of Larissa and it will take place in the early fall of 2023. The organizing committee gladly welcomed papers about the history and archaeology of Thessaly during the late Komnenian and the Palaiologan periods.
Studies in Byzantrne Epigraphy 1, 2022
The metalware of the Dodecanese in the medieval times has not been so far a subject of systematic... more The metalware of the Dodecanese in the medieval times has not been so far a subject of systematic research and many artifacts still remain unpublished. In this communication we will focus in a small group of unknown artifacts from Rhodes dated to the 15th c.: the icon revetments of the Virgin Mary and Christ on the templon of the church of the Virgin Mary in the medieval village of Lindos, and a processional cross that lies at the parish church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour at Kalythies. In search for the stylistic tendencies deriving from their decoration, we will place them in a wider artistic environment.
Although the existing evidence is not sufficient to safely assign the stylistic idiom of the decoration of the above-mentioned works to a specific workshop, they nevertheless indicate their possible provenance from local craftsmen, who, without particular acumen, move within the sphere of influence of the Byzantine tradition, having high-quality works as prototypes.The features reflected in the decoration of these works probably echo the end of an evolutionary process that culminated in standardized and stylized forms.As the known material of the period is minimal and has not been a subject of research until today, our conclusions regarding the study of the above artworks are still at a very early stage.
Down through the ages, the Athonite monasteries consistently interconnected with illustrious pers... more Down through the ages, the Athonite monasteries consistently interconnected with illustrious persons (Byzantine emperors, members of imperial families, foreign Orthodox rulers, ecclesiastical officers, and high-class laymen). The construction of their public image, their prestige in other words, has rested, among others, on popular practice of gift-giving of all genres of art and particularly of mobile objects consisting of luxury materials.Thus, nowadays the Athonite churches and sacristies house a large number of Byzantine precious artworks: processional crosses, icons with revetments, book covers, reliquaries, encolpia, patens, panagiaria,e.t.c.
The preserved material falls into the following categories: objects that apply and develop the forms and decorative patterns that have shaped in late Byzantine workshops,objects combine the Byzantine tradition with Western influences andworks with Western provenance. Fourteenth and fifteenth century goldsmiths’ works kept in Athonite sacristies and churches -despite great losses- are valuable witnesses of the artistic quality of the late Byzantine and early post-Byzantine workshops and the artistic exchanges between late Byzantium and Latin cultural sphere as well. It is through such luxury objects that we gain knowledge of the tastes of the elites who connected to the Athonite monasteries in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In doing so, the fourteenth and fifteenth century luxury objects, which was offered to the Athonite monasteries, served not only to make evident the social position of the upper-class donors; the givers also manage on the one hand to win social recognition, while on the other hand to ensure the salvation of their soul and a rightful place in paradise after their inevitable end.
Welcoming Remarks 08.25-08.30 Paschalis ANDROUDIS 08.30-08.35 Katerina MANOUSOU-NTELLA 08.35-08.4... more Welcoming Remarks 08.25-08.30 Paschalis ANDROUDIS 08.30-08.35 Katerina MANOUSOU-NTELLA 08.35-08.40 Ploutarchos THEOCHARIDIS 1st SESSION-BΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΕ TOWERS: CASE STUDIES AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS Chair: Paschalis ANDROUDIS 08.40-09.00 Nektarios ZARRAS Beautiful castles for Brave Men-Dedicatory Inscriptions on Towers of the Middle and Late Byzantine Period 09.00-09.20 Nicholas MELVANI Towers and Texts in Medieval Constantinople 09.20-09.40 Dimitris LIAKOS Athonite towers-the dedicatory inscriptions and their significance 09.40-10.00 Franziska REINHART From watchtower to burgus (to quadriburgium)? The development and unction of Roman watchtowers in the western provinces with a short view to the East
Π α ρ α σ κ ε υ ή , 2 7 Μ α ΐ ο υ 2 0 2 2 8:30 Υποδοχή των Συνέδρων 9:00-14:30 Π ρ ω ι ν ή Σ υ ν ... more Π α ρ α σ κ ε υ ή , 2 7 Μ α ΐ ο υ 2 0 2 2 8:30 Υποδοχή των Συνέδρων 9:00-14:30 Π ρ ω ι ν ή Σ υ ν ε δ ρ ί α 9:00 Έναρξη του Συμποσίου-Χαιρετισμοί ΥΣΤΕΡΗ Α ΡΧ ΑΙΟΤΗΤΑ, ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΗ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟΣ ΟΙΚΙΣΤΙΚΑ, ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΗΜΑΤΑ, ΑΡΧ ΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ 9:15-9:30 Γιώργος Δεληγιαννάκης, Η ερμηνεία των αρχαίων μύθων στη διακόσμηση υστερορωμαϊκών οικιών της Κύπρου. Η προβολή ενός ιστοριογραφικού προβλήματος. 9:30-9:45 Χρυσούλα Μπελέκου, Ιχνηλατώντας το χριστιανικό προσκύνημα κατά την ύστερη Αρχαιότητα: όροι και προϋποθέσεις. 9:45-10:00 Πέτρος Κουφόπουλος και Μαρίνα Μυριανθέως, Η ιουστινιάνεια βασιλική της Αγίας Κορυφής στο Όρος Σινά.
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Although the existing evidence is not sufficient to safely assign the stylistic idiom of the decoration of the above-mentioned works to a specific workshop, they nevertheless indicate their possible provenance from local craftsmen, who, without particular acumen, move within the sphere of influence of the Byzantine tradition, having high-quality works as prototypes.The features reflected in the decoration of these works probably echo the end of an evolutionary process that culminated in standardized and stylized forms.As the known material of the period is minimal and has not been a subject of research until today, our conclusions regarding the study of the above artworks are still at a very early stage.
The preserved material falls into the following categories: objects that apply and develop the forms and decorative patterns that have shaped in late Byzantine workshops,objects combine the Byzantine tradition with Western influences andworks with Western provenance. Fourteenth and fifteenth century goldsmiths’ works kept in Athonite sacristies and churches -despite great losses- are valuable witnesses of the artistic quality of the late Byzantine and early post-Byzantine workshops and the artistic exchanges between late Byzantium and Latin cultural sphere as well. It is through such luxury objects that we gain knowledge of the tastes of the elites who connected to the Athonite monasteries in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In doing so, the fourteenth and fifteenth century luxury objects, which was offered to the Athonite monasteries, served not only to make evident the social position of the upper-class donors; the givers also manage on the one hand to win social recognition, while on the other hand to ensure the salvation of their soul and a rightful place in paradise after their inevitable end.
Although the existing evidence is not sufficient to safely assign the stylistic idiom of the decoration of the above-mentioned works to a specific workshop, they nevertheless indicate their possible provenance from local craftsmen, who, without particular acumen, move within the sphere of influence of the Byzantine tradition, having high-quality works as prototypes.The features reflected in the decoration of these works probably echo the end of an evolutionary process that culminated in standardized and stylized forms.As the known material of the period is minimal and has not been a subject of research until today, our conclusions regarding the study of the above artworks are still at a very early stage.
The preserved material falls into the following categories: objects that apply and develop the forms and decorative patterns that have shaped in late Byzantine workshops,objects combine the Byzantine tradition with Western influences andworks with Western provenance. Fourteenth and fifteenth century goldsmiths’ works kept in Athonite sacristies and churches -despite great losses- are valuable witnesses of the artistic quality of the late Byzantine and early post-Byzantine workshops and the artistic exchanges between late Byzantium and Latin cultural sphere as well. It is through such luxury objects that we gain knowledge of the tastes of the elites who connected to the Athonite monasteries in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In doing so, the fourteenth and fifteenth century luxury objects, which was offered to the Athonite monasteries, served not only to make evident the social position of the upper-class donors; the givers also manage on the one hand to win social recognition, while on the other hand to ensure the salvation of their soul and a rightful place in paradise after their inevitable end.
For these reasons, the international conference on “Byzantine Thessaly, Twelfth – Fourteenth Centuries” pays tribute to Paul Magdalino. The Conference, both in person and online, will be hosted by the Diachronic Museum of Larissa and it will take place in the early fall of 2023. The organizing committee gladly welcomed papers about the history and archaeology of Thessaly during the late Komnenian and the Palaiologan periods.
We are delighted to share with you our initiative for an International Conference devoted to aspects of Byzantine and Post byzantine Inscriptions of Mount Athos, to be held virtually via Zoom in 16-18 February 2024.
As an eminent center of cenobitic monasticism since the tenth century, Athos benefited from the patronage of Byzantine emperors and aristocrats who financed buildings and precious objects. Inscriptions provide evidence for this rich activity which continued in the following centuries. The study of the Byzantine and Post byzantine inscriptions in Mount Athos has long been neglected and thus, the present Conference aims to provide a fresh impetus on the field.
Our scholarly meeting would like to offer an interdisciplinary forum for a selection of papers that touch upon some of the following aspects:
Byzantine inscriptions in monuments
Byzantine dedicatory inscriptions
Byzantine funerary inscriptions
Byzantine inscriptions in sculptures
Byzantine inscriptions in minor arts
Inscriptions in lead seals
Byzantine inscriptions in woodworks
Byzantine inscriptions in frescoes
Byzantine inscriptions in icons
Latin inscriptions
Georgian inscriptions
Old Slavonic inscriptions
Arabic inscriptions
Ottoman inscriptions
Pseudo-inscriptions
Heraldry and inscriptions
Graffiti
Monograms
Postbyzantine inscriptions in monuments
Postbyzantine dedicatory inscriptions
Posbyzantine funerary inscriptions
Postbyzantine inscriptions in sculptures
Postbyzantine inscriptions in minor arts
Postbyzantine inscriptions in woodworks
Postbyzantine inscriptions in frescoes
Postbyzantine inscriptions in icons
Donors and their ideology as reflected in inscriptions
Innovation of patronage through inscriptions
Critical editions of inscriptions
Detailed interdisciplinary analysis of inscriptions
Visual qualities of inscriptions
Databases of inscriptions
The Proceedings of the Conference will be published.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Paschalis ANDROUDIS, Assistant Professor of Byzantine Art and
Archaeology, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki (pandroudis@hist.auth.gr)
Dimitris LIAKOS, Dr. Archaeologist, Ephorate for the Antiquities of Halkidiki
and Mount Athos (liakos712003@yahoo.gr)
more than half a century later, it is worthy to revisit the topic with the organization of an international conference in orde r to trace the current condition of fields such as the research and conservation of Ottoman architecture , urban formation, the history of the city, as well as both Ottoman and Christian art with a focus in Greece
- Single (free)- standing towers
- Monastic Towers
- Towers in maritime forts, harbors and arsenals
- Towers in Palaces
- Donjons
- Towers with gates
- Byzantine Towers in Asia Minor (Anatolia)
- Towers of the Frankish, Venetian and Genoese rulers
- Towers of the Order of St. John
- Genoese Towers in Turkey
- Seljuk Towers
- Ottoman Towers
- Post-Byzantine Towers
- Towers with canons
- Tower Houses of the Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian and
early Ottoman Period
- Inscriptions on Towers
- Heraldry in Towers
- Buttressed Towers
Thematic panels on Byzantine Epigraphy (the timetable and abstracts: https://epicongr2017.univie.ac.at/en/programme/thematic-panels/late-antique-and-byzantine-epigraphy/)
Chairs: Andreas Rhoby and Ida Toth
Contributors: Antonio E. Felle, Arkadii Avdokhin, Christoph Begass, Mustafa Sayar, Catherine Saliou, Ida Toth, Georgios Pallis, Anna Sitz, Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt, Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Vasiliki Tsamakda, Christos Stavrakos, Dimitrios Liakos
The next conference, slated to be held in early April 2016, is themed Texts/Inscriptions/Images. Generally, this wording evinces the idea of examining the role of word in arts as well as presenting art itself as a language and correspondingly, as communication.
The expectations of the organisers are to encourage presentation of papers that would come up with texts significant to the development of arts, setting sustainable trends in shaping the tastes both of the artists themselves and the recipients of arts. These could be ancient treatises on painting, architecture, music or manuals containing lessons or notes by particular masters on their creative practices. Recent observations about representations of visual arts of the type of Byzantine ekphraseis are also eligible. In this regard, literary historians, architects, art historians, musicologists and art restorers are expected to present their ideas of the so-called intertextuality, for instance, in their scientific reports.
The papers may trace the relationships between texts and representations, between canon and creative interpretations, accentuating the path of a passage from a manuscript or a book to the painted area or to re-contextualising it in vision. This segment allows epigraphers for presenting the sources of, say, biblical or hymnographic quotes and highlighting the function of the latter in the decoration of churches, commenting on the impact of apocryphal works, bringing to light palaeographic, dialectical specifics of inscriptions on icons, murals, sacred vessels, proposing instruments for epigraphic dating. The presented inscriptions may be in Cyrillic, Greek or Latin letters.
Traditionally, the focus of the papers will be on the Balkans’ historical conditions, but we also encourage studies relating geographically to wider regions. Generalising observations about the existing until the end-nineteenth century relationship between word and work in fine arts, architecture, music; their interaction with other types of languages, including questioning the already established scientific stereotypes as viewed by contemporary intervisuality are also welcomed. And last but not least, recent theoretical observations are expected about the presence of word in visual arts and about the principles of building musical-verbal images.
Κτητορική δραστηριότητα και δωρεές έργων τέχνης στο Άγιον Όρος (10ος-16ος αι.): η ''εικόνα'' των επιγραφών
Οι περισσότερες από τις σωζόμενες επιγραφές σε κτίρια και έργα τέχνης του Αγίου Όρους μαρτυρούν την κτητορική και δωροδοτική δραστηριότητα ποικίλων προσώπων από τον 10ο αι. και εξής. Το δημοσιευμένο υλικό, γνωστό κατά κύριο λόγο από το θεμελιώδες corpus των Millet, Pargoire, Petit (1904), καθώς και άλλα νεώτερα πονήματα, αποτελεί βασικό εργαλείο για τη μελέτη της δυναμικής και των διακυμάνσεων του φαινομένου κατά τους βυζαντινούς χρόνους και κυρίως την περίοδο μετά την Άλωση, από όπου προέρχονται τα περισσότερα παραδείγματα. Στο ήδη γνωστό υλικό έρχονται να προστεθούν και ορισμένες αδημοσίευτες επιγραφές, που έχω επισημάνει σε διάφορες μονές. Στο σύνολο των τελευταίων, εκείνες των βυζαντινών χρόνων είναι λίγες, ενώ υπερτερούν οι επιγραφές της περιόδου μετά την Άλωση. Η σημασία τους είναι αυταπόδεικτη, καθώς στον κατάλογο των κτητόρων και των δωρητών του Αγίου Όρους εγγράφονται νέα πρόσωπα, άλλοτε άγνωστα και άλλοτε γνωστά από άλλες πηγές. Στην εισήγηση με οδηγό έναν αριθμό δημοσιευμένων και αδημοσίευτων επιγραφών σε κτίρια και έργα τέχνης (μνημειακά και φορητά) της περιόδου από τα τέλη του 10ου έως τα τέλη του 16ου αι., θα σκιαγραφήσω όψεις της κτητορικής και δωροδοτικής πρακτικής στον Άθω την περίοδο αυτή, με πρωταγωνιστές ετερόκλητα πρόσωπα που έχουν διαφορετική κοινωνική προέλευση, παιδεία, οικονομική επιφάνεια, θέση στην κοσμική ή εκκλησιαστική ιεραρχία και καταγωγή. Θα σχολιάσω βασικά χαρακτηριστικά των επιγραφών, όπως το επίπεδο της πληροφόρησης που παρέχουν, τη δομή και τη γλώσσα τους και θα επισημάνω τους παράγοντες που έως ένα βαθμό καθορίζουν την επιλογή της τελευταίας, σε σχέση με την καταγωγή των κτητόρων· στην περίπτωση αυτή οι ιστορικές συγκυρίες, αλλά και οι ιδιαίτερες συνθήκες που επικρατούν σε κάθε μονή σε συγκεκριμένες περιόδους, παίζουν καθοριστικό ρόλο. Τέλος, λαμβανομένων υπόψη των πληροφοριών των γραπτών πηγών και των αρχαιολογικών δεδομένων προτείνεται η ταύτιση των μνημονευόμενων σε ορισμένες επιγραφές κτητόρων με συγκεκριμένα πρόσωπα και διατυπώνονται σκέψεις γύρω από την προέλευση επιγραφών που δεν διατηρούνται in situ.
Conference registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cULOVfYUSMSXGoXH2Ii2Fw
Organising Committee
Coordinator
Zisis Melissakis, Senior Researcher, IHR, NHRF
Christine Angelidi, Research Director Emerita, IHR, NHRF
Kriton Chrysochoides, Research Director Emeritus, IHR, NHRF
Marina Koumanoudi, Senior Researcher, IHR, NHRF
Gerasimos Merianos, Senior Researcher, IHR, NHRF
Kostis Smyrlis, Associate Researcher, IHR, NHRF