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Durozoy, Anne-Sophie. "Le petit prophète Jonas au Moyen Âge : étude iconographique." Paris, EPHE, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EPHE4016.
Full textJonah was often represented from the 12th to the 15th century in France, in the German countries as well as in England. He was less so in Spain, Italy, or in the Scandinavian countries. This study sets out to analyse texts and images so as to assess the part played by this character in pastoral, exegesis, theological compendiums, as well as in the the imaginary world. Jonah is a prominent figure in paleo-christian art. This little prophet was given a very unique treatment in the regions and periods that were influenced by Antiquity. Yet, they also reworked the meaning and the iconography of Jonah’s representations. The plant gave way to the whale as his main attribute. The emphasis before on the issue of Man’s Salvation shifted towards Resurrection. Indeed, Jonah prefigures the Christ in a double way. Being swallowed and cast out of the whale, he announces both Christ’s death and Christ’s resurrection. He is also one of the twelve minor prophets and in this respect he appears quite often - not always with an attribute - among other prophets, to show the continuity in God’s plan. He is ordered by God against his will to the city of Nineveh, which repents of his sins in a powerful way. Thus he appears quite paradoxically as a figure of repentance and that was used for pastoral purposes when the necessity of the sacrament of repentance arose after the Fourth Council of the Lateran. Jonah is often seen with a sea creature that would then be depicted in the form of a whale: his being in the belly of a great fish allows to identify him. The fascination for the marvellous as well as the hope of the Resurrection of the Flesh may account for the prominence of the whale episode
Michel, Janine. "Iconographie du pèlerin et du pèlerinage, XIe-XVIe siècle." Paris, EPHE, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EPHE4008.
Full textIn this study are presented all the pictures, whatever their kind is, which are related to the medieval pilgrims and pilgrimages of the Western Europe, since the 11th and extended up to the 16th century. Those multiple pictures are, for a major part, of religious origin: The medieval Catholic Church used them for the education of all Christians, but also to get money. The rich Christians accomplished remote pilgrimages, the less wealthy ones took part in vicinity pilgrimages; but they all left offerings at the holy place. The study is supported by the works of the previous researchers and by medieval texts. It is first considered the pilgrim himself, the motives of his departure, his walking journey, his arrival at the holy place, then his models: the holy pilgrims and the holy protectors of the pilgrims. The study then approaches the multiple miracles which the Saints give to the good pilgrims, either by curing the ill persons, or by removing the difficulties of their journey. It is also dealt with the identified pilgrims, such as kings and princes, then with the imaginary pilgrims met in religious and profane texts, sometimes satirically described. The fourth part of the study is devoted to the Saint James miracle called “The miracle of the hanged unhanged pilgrim”, of which the multiple representations still visible in Europe give evidence of its importance. In the fifth and last part, it is sought to know which part those pictures could have plaid in the historical research upon medieval pilgrimages
Amirkhanian, Rouzanna. "Le décor des tables de Canons d'Eusèbe dans l'enluminure médiévale arménienne et l'iconographie de la Jérusalem céleste : étude comparative sur le thème de la Jérusalem céleste dans l'art chrétien du IVe à la fin du XIIIe siècle." Paris, EPHE, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EPHE4001.
Full textThe myth of heavenly jerusalem holds a special place in the religious imagery of the christian world from antiquity to the middle ages. It has generated numerous artistic interpretations within eastern and western pictorial traditions. Since recent years, much attention has been accorded to this subject in modern research. However, the architectural motif which serves as artistic framework to the canon tables has been omitted from this rich artistic material. The synoptic invention of eusebius, bishop of caesarea, as well as its artistic decoration integrated christian codices as early as the beginning of the 4th century and became one of the widespread motifs in greek, latin, armenian, syrian, georgian and ethiopian iconographic traditions. Taking as a basis the rich iconographic material within armenian illuminated manuscripts, this dissertation studies the architectural and artistic framework of canon tables’ decoration on the background of iconography of heavenly city in early christian art. The study establishes many ties between this particular architectural motif in book illumination and those christian representations that depict the abstract concept of heavenly jerusalem by means of real terrestrial city and its most important sanctuary, the church of the holy sepulchre of jerusalem. The present research follows then the development of canon tables’ decoration within medieval artistic tradition and examines some important metamorphosis in their visual language. Analyses allow to postulate the relation between this transformed model of canon tables and new artistic formulas and symbolic aspects of the heavenly jerusalem in medieval art
Meiffret, Laurence. "Les cycles de la vie de Saint Antoine ermite dans l'iconographie française et italienne du XIVème au XVIème siècle : intervention des légendes et influence culturelle dans la constitution de l'image d'un Saint." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010561.
Full textIamanidzé, Nina. "Le mobilier liturgique sculpté dans les églises de Géorgie (VIe-XIe siècles)." Paris 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA010596.
Full textGarry, Sandrine. "Le culte de saint Josse au Moyen Âge : histoire et iconographie, des origines au XVe siècle." Paris 8, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA083910.
Full textLionnet, Marie. "Les peintures murales en Hongrie à la fin du Moyen âge (v. 1300-v. 1475) : la transmission des traditions iconographiques et les formes originales de leur appropriation locale sur les deux thèmes majeurs : la Mère de Dieu et le Jugement dernier." Paris 10, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA100171.
Full textThe study is about two major themes of Christian iconography : the Mother of God and the Last Judgement observed on mural paintings in the kingdom of Hungary at the end of the Middle Age. The iconographic analysis gives the possibility to identify the circulation of artistic currents allowing to understand eventual paths of transmission. Amidst the themes common throughout Latin Christianity, these analysis show new forms of adaptation and appropriation of these themes as seen with the success of the Virgin of Forgiveness and her association with the Last Judgement. They can be explained by Saxon settlements and the Sicules population in the south-eastern part of the kingdom. In this particular region, these iconographic re-creations can be explained through contacts with the communities of Greek observance and by the activity of Franciscan missionaries. Consequently, the influence of Franciscan spirituality in Transylvania is the object of a more detailed analysis
Poilpré, Anne-Orange. "Maiestas Domini : l'image du Christ en majesté en Occident : des origines à la fin de l'époque carolingienne." Paris 10, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA100173.
Full textThe representation of Christ surrounded by the Tetramorph (Rev. 4, 6-7) called Maiestas Domini is born in Rome and Ravenna at the biginning of the 5th century. It is then a necessity for the Christian Church to create a synthetic and dogmatic image of itself on the base of its celestial patern. During the 7th and 8th centuries, this theme develops its symbolic in the manuscripts, sacred object and sacred book. The carolingian period shows a strong influence of the imperial context and a confusion of the political and religious realms. Under the reign of Charles the Bald, the lozenge form and the prophets are added to the initial theme. This new version of the Maiestas Domini expresses the divine principle, its place in the Christian sacred history and its relation to the terrestrial and royal hierarchy
Komada, Akiko. "Les illustrations de la Bible historiale : les manuscrits réalisés dans le Nord." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040097.
Full textLeclaire, Jérôme. "L’expansion artistique dans les édifices conventuels de Sienne à la fin du Moyen Âge." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100228.
Full textEssential agents of spirituality at the end of medieval times, the Mendicant Orders were closely linked with their convents. These buildings, in fact, were created with regard to the cultal needs, and intellectual activities of the brothers themselves, as well as with regard to the gathering of the faithful. So, established in a very structured way, the brothers made sure to integrate and adapt themselves in a dynamic manner to the life of the city with wich the present investigation is dealing. Starting from a reflection directed towards the painted and sculpted works in Sienese convent buildings, this study tackles the different purposes of this artistic production, along with its impact on the urban setting in question. In order to accomplish this, three points are successively focused on: the first aims to provide the most exhaustive inventory possible of the works that blossomed from the 13th Century until the middle of the 16th Century. The second deals with the intentions and consequences of this artistic development in the city. Finally, the third extends the topic to some other great contexts of Central Italy and particularly focuses on the originality of this Mendicant production in the last centuries of the Middle Ages
Lafran, Anne. "Entre ciel et terre : exègèse, symbolique et représentations de la pendaison de Judas Iscariote au Moyen-Age (XIIe-XIVe siècles)." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040228.
Full textJudas’ hanging, anecdotal episode from the New Testament, asserted itself as a recurrent topic in patristic tradition. During the Middle Age, suicide is reproved as a sin by the Church and as a crime by civil authorities ; it is a yet nameless taboo. On the contrary, Judas’ suicide, because it is symbolic and exemplary, is annotated, interpreted and pictured. It shows general hostility from medieval mentalities towards self-willed death, the “male mort”, as well as stigmatization of those who have dissociated from social entity and Christian moral values and who are doomed to the same death as Judas, not anymore considered a suicide but a punishment. The present study has in view to explore Judas’ suicide pictures, interpretations and their declensions and to point out how this topic serves, beyond suicide’s condemnation, the society normalisation effort, the civil authorities’ construction, the anti-Semitism rising, while showing a better knowledge of interiority, characteristic of medieval Humanism
Gagné, Annick. "ISTE LOCUS FULGET: LES INSCRIPTIONS D'AUTEL (FRANCE, XIe-XIIIe SIÈCLES): l'écriture et la matière dans l'église." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27553/27553.pdf.
Full textGnuva, Jean. "Peintures murales médiévales d'Aquitaine, de la moitié du XIIème au milieu du XVIème siècle : étude iconographique, stylistique et chronologique." Rennes 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000REN20056.
Full textA recent census shows that from the roughly 350 medieval wall-painted buildings to be found in the 5 departments of this diversified region, only half remains today. Among them, 36 may date back to the romanesque period, 50 to the XIVth century, 4 to the XVth, 50 to the end of the XVth and beginning of the XVIth, and 81 at last to the XVIth century. One could wish there had been some artistic center or famous workshop in Aquitaine. Although the first period reveals its links with the Poitou , the Languedoc or the Catalonia, the XIVth century is more creative with a style of its own, wich is sometimes similar to court art ; the end of the middle-ages is fertile but tends to denegerate and become moral ; eventually some trends from the North or from Italy (via the Southern Garonne) made this period lose part of its technical skills and meet a style crisis. Most of paintingscan be found first in the department of the Gironde, then the Dordogne, the Landes, the Lot-et-Garonne and finally the Pyrenees-Atlantiques. Nevertheless, creation has been affected by a long time of war (from 1345 to 1453) wich destroyed the countyside, by the fact that monasteries tended to settle in town and sometimes became austere, by the location at the crossroads on the way to Santiago de Compostela, and finally by the protestant revolution (1540-1592) wich was still deeply rooted. At the end of the period , the parishes would borrow their decoration items from the XIVth and XVth century, without trying to innovate
Delamarre, Barbara. "Les églises romanes de Bretagne : une production artistique médiévale et sa réception contemporaine." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014REN20004.
Full textThe Romanesque architecture of Brittany is one of the great forgotten of research. Disrepute in the nineteenth centuryfor not obeying the models prescribe by the theory of Regional Schools, it will be investigated locally, piece by piece, with noreal major study before 1958. Half a century after the publication of the work of Roger Grand (Romanesque art in Brittany, Picard), a new perspective had to be given, in the light of new discoveries and methodological developments. An inventory of major buildings is presented in a catalog of notes, as a basis for the analysis and definition of the architectural design in Brittany in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Romanesque art developed in Brittany, as elsewhere, original forms, adaptedto local materials but sometimes watered by remote references. It appears that the lack of knowledge of this heritage is more an effect of recent historical phenomena than of the poor quality of it. If the Romanesque period was dismissed in regional historical studies this is a phenomenon of rewriting Breton history, a regional novel, begun in the 1830s and, in part,still running
Blanchard, Marianne, and Marianne Blanchard. "De materialibus ad immaterialia : le rôle de la matière dans l'œuvre de Suger de Saint-Denis." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/38210.
Full textL’oeuvre écrite de l’abbé Suger de Saint-Denis à propos de la reconstruction de son église abbatiale est l’objet de nombreuses recherches depuis les années 1940. Puisqu’il fut longtemps considéré comme le fondateur de l’architecture dite « gothique », ses écrits ont attiré l’attention de ceux qui cherchaient la source de ce style, la doctrine philosophique derrière l’oeuvre architecturale. Or, les études consacrées à Suger ont évoqué l’exaltation d’un processus anagogique — du matériel vers le spirituel — et mis en valeur l’utilisation de la lumière dans l’église dans certains passages isolés, sans forcément prendre en compte l’ensemble des écrits sur Saint-Denis ni l’ensemble des processus entourant l’édification de l’église. L’abbé donna en effet dans ses écrits une place importante à la production issue des terres du monastère, à leur administration, aux matériaux spécifiques employés dans la construction de l’église et dans la fabrication des objets sacrés et des ornements qu’il avait commandités, ainsi qu’aux méthodes par lesquelles il avait obtenu les moyens d’y parvenir. Il accorda — semble-t-il — une attention très nette au rôle du labeur (labor) et de l’ouvrage (opus) des artisans, à son propre rôle d’administrateur et à la dimension matérielle des oeuvres dédiées à Dieu. Pour Suger, tous ces éléments semblent avoir été inclus dans un processus de donation et de transformation incluant tous les membres du corps social, processus dans lequel il jouait le rôle de maître d’oeuvre en étant tout à la fois administrateur, donateur, auteur et dévot. Nous proposons donc, dans le cadre de ce mémoire, de situer sa conception de la dimension matérielle des oeuvres d’art dans le processus de transformation dont il fut l’auteur.
Bonnotte, Claire. "Le thème iconographique de l’apparition du Christ à Emmaüs au regard des évolutions spirituelles, liturgiques et culturelles de l’Occident : (XIe-XVIe siècles)." Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100018.
Full textThis research is an iconographic investigation and historical explanation of the religious mentalities of the period herein envisaged (XIth-XVIth centuries). The study aims to show the singularity of this theme overly neglected by historians and art historians for the benefit of other biblical themes more represented. The analysis required several areas of research: the image, the liturgy, the exegesis, the spirituality and also the literature depicting Christ in Emmaus by the yardstick of the spiritual, liturgical, cultural and artistic history of the Christian Western World. The areas of research deal with the implications of liturgical, sacramental order, and also the devotional and cultural aspects of the theme, such as they are revealed throughout the Western Middle Ages. The far-reaching significance of the changing perceptions, themes and variations of the relationships between iconography and « dramatic fact » influences the evolution of all areas of thought, literature and theatre as well as fundamental religious beliefs and interpretations. It is all the most important to understand how certain transfers are done in this context, in particular the evolution from the apparition of Christ to the « pilgrims » of Emmaus, whose image is shaped during this period
Martin, Pierre. "Les premiers chevets à déambulatoire et chapelles rayonnantes de la Loire moyenne (Xe-XIe siècles).Saint-Aignan d'Orléans, Saint-Martin de Tours, Notre-Dame de Mehun-sur-Yèvre, La Madeleine de Châteaudun." Phd thesis, Université de Poitiers, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00581583.
Full textChaix, Valérie. "Edifices ecclésiaux de la fin du Xème siècle au début du XIIème siècle en Normandie : formes et fonctions." Paris 10, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA100143.
Full textThis study focuses on ecclesial edifices built between the end of the 9th century and the middle of the 12th century in Normandy. About 15 churches will be thus examined. The purpose of this study is to offer a functional interpretation of architectural designs when possible : they will be analysed according to their liturgical, funeral, religious and even possibly non-religious uses. Architectonic, aesthetic and symbolic aspects will not be taken into account because of their technical or abstract character. However, they will be pointed out if necessary. First, the study will concentrate on the edifices themselves. The articulations between each of their architectural components will be analysed in order to reveal their exact characteristics. A thorough analysis of the written sources will provide significant clues concerning their customary functions. We will then be able to establish a series of monographs gathering all the useful information. Then, we will establish a regional typology of the architectural designs ; we will expand our research out of Normandy in order to make a comparative study of these components. After each formal synthesis, we will make a functional one following the same pattern. Finally, all the collected data will be carefully examined and we will then try to show if there is a system of close associations between a certain type of architectural arrangement and specific uses and functions
Denkha, Ataa. "L’imaginaire du paradis et le monde de l’au-delà dans le christianisme et dans l’islam, une étude comparative." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012STRAK009/document.
Full textParadise is an essential aspect of both religions, for which earthly realities have been used to imagine a place of happiness and perfection. Its concepts are to be found in the Bible as well as the Quran, the writings of the Fathers of the Church, the hadiths and more general literature. Visionaries have reported stunning descriptions of it, and its beauties have never ceased to be illustrated by artists over the centuries. In order to discover, know, understand its multiple aspects, it has been necessary, not only to insert it into the context of history, but also to situate it in the realm of eschatology and to examine the other places of the great Beyond. Our research attempts to elaborate a comparative study between the Holy Scriptures of Christianity and Islam. We have confronted exegetic, dogmatic and iconographic data so as to find out the coherence inherent to each religion, hoping thereby to discover their specific approaches and the main differences between their own visions of Paradise and afterlife. Our reflection has led us to conclude that the images of Paradise in Christianity and Islam are derived from the way the texts are considered and interpreted. But the remaining question is the use of the word nowadays, particularly in the context of Islam. This dissertation thus questions, even refutes the promises of Paradise made to Muslims under the guise of new forms of violence calling forth crowds of candidates to murder
Charbonnel, Marie. "Materialibus ad immaterialia : Peinture murale et piété dans les anciens diocèses de Clermont, du Puy et de Saint-Flour du XIIe au XVe siècle." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012CLF20005.
Full textWall-painting is viewed as a material medium of communication deeply linked to the places of worship and devotion that are churches. As a part of this place et by its monumental character, it forms a privileged way of spread for messages which addressees belong to terrestrial and celestial spheres. Those religious places and spaces, which wall painting is a good part, should consequently be viewed by taking account of its function and attendance. This dissertation proposes to envisage medieval religious practices through the prism of wall painting of the former dioceses of Clermont, Le Puy and Saint-Flour (1317). At first, the political and religious frameworks, historiography of the studies on wall painting and the problematic are exposed. Secondly, questionings induced by murals linked to spaces used by believers and clerical communities are developed. Thirdly, questionings inherent to murals inserted in material environment of the pious foundation, which serve as setting for liturgical or non liturgical prayers, and which are included in an individual and/or family context, are treated. The aim of this study is to consider iconographic and epigraphic expressions within private and community frameworks. Indeed, issues are very different, notably at levels as signs of identity and iconographic themes as portrait
Ritz-Guilbert, Anne. "Autour du Bréviaire de Marie de Savoie (Chambéry, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 4) : étude sur l'enluminure en Lombardie dans la première partie du XVe siècle." Paris, EPHE, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005EPHE4054.
Full textThe breviary in the municipal library of Chambéry, Ms4, was made at the request of Marie de Savoie (1411-1469), the daughter of the Duke Amadeus VIII and the wife of Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan. Each of the 106 textual in the book is marked by an initial with a religious scene; the margins, on the other hand, are transformed into a playground for secular motifs (naturalistic animals, Putti, etc. ) lodged on spiralling tendrils. P. Toesca and later art historians have distinguished two main painters in the book, the master of the vitae imperatorum, assisted by a collaborator who imitates his style, and Belbello da Pavia who appears on four folios. Although the manuscript has long been recognized as one of the masterpieces of Lombard illumination, providing both a fine example of the style of the duke of Milan's preferred painter and a display of naturalistic animal-painting, it has never been fully studied in terms of its make-up, style or iconography. Since 1969 the manuscript, which is painted by several artists closely related in style, has been embroiled in an often nebulous debate launched by A. Stones concerning the distinction between the styles of the master of the vitae imperatorum and the Olivetan master. The system of marginalia, however, which is quite exceptional in Lombard illumination of the period, has never been studied and forms the centrepiece of this thesis. The study proposes as sources of inspiration for the marginalia a thirteenth-century north French manuscript in the duke's library as well as a model-book on animal studies, then regroups and traces the history of the relatively few manuscripts that prolong the tradition
Yordanova, Lilyana. "Commande et donation pieuses en Bulgarie médiévale (XIIe-XVe siècles) : arts, économie et société." Thesis, Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPSLP008.
Full textCommissions and donations of goods and property to the Church are at the core of medieval society. Through a holistic and interdisciplinary approach, this dissertation aims to provide the first global study of the practice, mechanisms and role of pious patronage within Bulgarian society during the 12th-15th century. From the re-foundation of the Bulgarian Empire in 1185, through the intermediate periods of conflict with Byzantium, Serbia and the Latin States, until the establishment of the Ottomans in 1396 but also beyond, pious donations have been used to define territory, negotiate power and maintain the cohesion of social groups. The identification of new forms of generosity and the re-examination of artworks, narrative and legal sources, some of which hitherto neglected, lead to elaborate a new model of horizontal and vertical social patronage and shed new light for the study of this complex social phenomenon on the broader scale of the medieval world
Ferraro, Séverine. "Les images de la vie terrestre de la Vierge dans l'art mural (peintures et mosaïques) en France et en Italie : des origines de l’iconographie chrétienne jusqu’au Concile de Trente." Thesis, Dijon, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012DIJOL033/document.
Full textThis thesis is devoted to wall images of the Virgin’s earthly life, an iconographic sequence composed of the young Mary’s history and episodes from Christ’s life which are related to the Virgin, until Pentecost. This research comes within the extended framework from the early Christian art to the Council of Trent. It is based on an abundant iconographic documentation which includes more than 2300 pictures, wall paintings and mosaics, preserved in France and Italy. The first part of the thesis is dedicated to the quantitative analysis of the iconographic documentation, according to a triple point of view. A thematic analysis identifies three phases in the chronological sequence of the Virgin’s earthly life, while specifying the quantitative importance of each of the studied iconographic themes. An analysis of the geographical distribution of different listed conservation sites reveals spatial characteristics which are specific to each territory studied, in connection with local history. Finally, a chronological analysis allows to integrate wall images from great phases of the art history, as well as to highlight the most emblematic decorations. The second part of the thesis is devoted to the iconographic investigation itself. As preamble, the various textual sources used in this research are presented. They are grouped into three categories : canonical sources, apocryphal gospels and medieval texts. The iconographic analysis of different themes about the Virgin’s earthly life are organized around three sequences : episodes preceding Christ’s birth (youth of Mary and Incarnation), those of Jesus’ Childhood (from the Nativity to Jesus among the Doctors) and those of adult Christ in which Mary plays a role (from Wedding at Cana to Pentecost). This analysis’ objective is to determine the different components of studied iconographic themes and to establish their specific typology, while stressing constants and breakpoints. The highlighting of the links between images and textual sources is also a priority of this research. Cross-cutting issues related to the development of Marian iconography itself, the process of images diffusion, the perception of the Marian figure as an edifying model and the study of the link between images and texts or their location in the ecclesial space are presented in the form of concluding reflections. In parallel, a selection of wall images of the Virgin’s earthly life, chosen according to the analysis arguments for their exemplary nature, is represented as three catalogues matching narrative sequences mentioned above. The selective bibliography on the various conservation sites is presented in each catalogue. Other bibliographic tools are provided in appendices volume. A thematic directory, listing all the wall images that belong to the iconographic documentation of the study, is also provided in appendix
Pernuit, Claire. "Une relecture de la cathédrale de Sens : (1130-1550)." Thesis, Dijon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015DIJOL016.
Full textThis research is an extension of a previous work, dedicated to the 13th-century stained-glass windows of the cathedral of Sens. Out of this first study was recognition that despite earlier initiated works and studies, the analysis of the building of the « First Master », to quote Jacques Henriet – that is, the chronology of the construction in the 12th and the modifications of its structure in the 13th, 14th and 15th century – was not fully achieved. The study is divided into three parts : the first two parts are dedicated to the archaeological context of the metropolitan church, the architectural analysis of the builing and the chronology of the construction (12th to 15th century) ; the third part is intended to understand the place of the monumental images and the light in the building, and how both clerical and lay could have reacted to them
Labidi, Sondès. "Art et hippiatrie au Moyen Âge." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EPHE4003.
Full textOur thesis consists in two volumes ; the first one deals with the iconographic study and the analysis of text/image relationships in the arabic hippiatric manuscripts Khalīl Āghā 8 and Fatīh 3608/3609. The first one entitled kitāb al-baïtara of Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Ahnaf is stored at Dār al-kutub in Cairo and is dated of 1209. The second one of the same title as the first one is neither signed nor dated. It is kept in the Libary of the Süleymaniye in Istanbul. We have attempted to study these two manuscripts, so richly decorated, to discover what are the characteristics that link them together and what aspects separate them and also whether they are from the same author or not. In the second volume of this thesis, we transcribed the copy of the Cairo manuscript on computer to make it more readable and we have then translated it to French in order to make it accessible to non-Arabic researchers
Rochard, Héléna. "Les peintures murales des "chapelles" de Baouît (VIe-IXe siècles) : images d’une communauté monastique en Égypte byzantine et arabe." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PSLEP012.
Full textSince their discovery, the wall paintings from Bawit aroused art historians’ interest, especially among scholars of the Christian East. They are an emblematic corpus of Coptic art, in the transition period between the Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Their significance is even more exceptional, considering the fact that they are very few around the Mediterranean basin. While echoing the largely extinct early byzantine buildings, they reflect a flourishing monastic community at the beginning of the Arab era. They are also a valuable source of information, complementary to the texts, about the spiritual life of the Egyptian monks. This study is the result of a synthesis between the proofreading of the archives and the data provided by the recent investigations. The new start of excavations on the site invited us to reconsider all the pictorial material discovered at the beginning of the 20th century, in order to clarify the function and the date of the said “chapels”, in the light of the iconographic programs and new discoveries. Finally, it gives a unique insight of the painters who have worked at Bawit and who have transmitted, through their pictorial work, an image of their community and a part of the Egyptian spirituality
Vivier, Fabien. "La collégiale de Saint-Julien de Brioude (Haute-Loire) : Recherches sur les liens entre l’architecture ecclésiale, son agencement iconographique, et la liturgie d’une communauté canoniale au Moyen Âge." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014CLF20005/document.
Full textThis thesis is made up of two statistical analyses which are at the service of the study of Saint-Julien de Brioude’s cultural identity. Having had a lush history, the Brioude Company kept a complex web of relationships. Both, art and liturgy, were the frame for the identity study of this chapter. The study of the Brivadois breviary proved how unique the Brivadois liturgy was. Unlike what was thought at first, such liturgy was not as close as to that of Clermont-Ferrand. Born from the blending of liturgical tradition from Aquitaine and Velay, the Brivadois liturgy was endowed with singing pieces and specific orations. The spatial staging of the relics partook of the collegiate’s specificity the pilgrims visited. Next to Julien’s gravestone, other Saints’ bodies and relics were subjected to devotions.The collegiate’s sculpted program was designed in two times. As they were often faithfully linked with the iconographic subjects used in Clermont’s diocese, Brioude’s capitals were put together in accordance with the areas dividing the ecclesial space. These nested areas were next to one another and highlighted the differences between the relics, the furniture and the images. The chevet intertwined Saint-Sépulcre’s iconography, along with its Crusades, with Julien’s reliquary gravestone and the secondary altars. The sculptures were used as genuine signage livened up around the liturgical tragedy. The images took part in the setting up of history’s liturgical memorial space.This study gives new perspectives which go beyond the monographic frame. Liturgy and arts can provide us with tangible understanding elements regarding the cultural exchanges and the layout of the ecclesial space. The canon’s familial origin determined this area (the Brivadois) located at the confluence of Auvergne’s Aquitaine and the Velay (buffer zone with the Empire). From the Brioude chapter located between these two, without being central, it extracted the cultural benefits as well as a very own standing. The Brioude chapter thus managed to shape its collegiate so as to celebrate the canonical company itself and the Saint whom she possessed the relics from. Attracting the crowd enabled the company to carry own the patron Saint’s memory and to provide themselves with the essential resources to make it operate. The collegiate was undertaken as a landscape’s landmark determining an attractive architectural identity
Denjean, Claude. "Une communauté juive au prisme du notariat chrétien : les Juifs de Puigcerda de 1260 à 1493." Toulouse 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998TOU20018.
Full textMaherzi, Aïcha. "L'enseignement et les sciences en islam du Ier au VIIe siècle Hégire : VIIe au XIVe siècle chrétien." Paris 5, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA05H035.
Full textThe object of this research is the systematical study of education and sciences in Islam over the period ranging from the 1st to the 8th hegirian century 7th to 14th christian century. These two factors are comprised within a wider system, that of the arab-muslim civilization of which we have examined other elements, such as religion and politics, themselves intermixed. Concerning religion, its influence is present at all levels, the coran being the basis of education and sciences which were and remained in his service. Concerning politics, the schisms that surrounded the question of the "khalifat" will have a profound impact on the development of education and sciences which will convey the tendencies generated by the parties in opposition. Concerning sciences, the pertinence of the influence of the ancient civilization s, mainly the Greek civilization, will constitute a problem with regard to the rationalist movements whose religion the orthodoxies want to preserve. The struggle between orthodoxies and rationalists will end up by marginalizing the foreign sciences, namely philosophy, and by the sclerosis of the intellectual thought itself. Schisms, ascendancy of politics over education and sciences, failure of the rationalism, are as many contributing endogenous factors to the decline of the arab-muslim civilization
Popescu, Dan-Alexandru. "La symbolique du pouvoir monarchique au Moyen âge (Les principautés roumaines et la france: étude comparative) : de l'Orient à l'Occident : le souverain chrétien." Rennes 2, 2006. http://www.bu.univ-rennes2.fr/system/files/theses/thesepopescu.pdf.
Full textThe medieval European civilization is a deeply Christian one. Jesus is the only example to follow, an exquisite Rex gloriae, whose kingdom remains separate from the physical universe and from the earthly life. The monarch, in expectation of the eternal redemption, can aspire to imitate his “superior”. King's power is limited by the power of God (rex a Deo coronatus): the anointment and the coronation of the monarch are two stages in the same mythical rite, of an initiating character, by which a person is invested with the divine gift. But sacred does not mean holy, and the sovereign has to be worthy of God's trust every day (being a mimethes Christou, like in the Byzantine imperial tradition). The church, an active participant in the ceremony by which a new king is born (consacratio) cannot afford to be ignored and the alliance between the two institutions is welded by their common mission: the government, in the name of God, of the human community (respublica Christiana). Orthodoxy, the prevalence of customs and the maintenance of traditions, the lack or the inefficiency of striving for social renewal, the patriarchal organization of life after a Byzantine archetypal model, all these define the originality of the Romanian feudality within the framework of a larger cultural-european area. With reference to political creation, the domnia, this becomes complete with the institution of church: the ruling authority cannot depart from the religious element, which is constitutive of the state. The feudal monarchy is based on the support it offers to monachical life, in exchange of which it receives political support. The spirituality is in search of patrons, and the ruling power wants mystical support: the voivode-church relationship is thus, welded rapidly and on the long-term
Haddad, Mohamed Al. "L'Occident chrétien médiéval vu par les historiens arabes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui." Paris 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA010511.
Full textFerraro, Séverine. "Les images de la vie terrestre de la Vierge dans l'art mural (peintures et mosaïques) en France et en Italie : des origines de l'iconographie chrétienne jusqu'au Concile de Trente." Phd thesis, Université de Bourgogne, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00841816.
Full textKoudriavtseva-Velmans, Olessia. "Les traditions occidentales et orientales du Moyen Âge dans l’art contemporain." Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100078.
Full textCommon language and image form the identity of the individual. Considering this as a possibility for art rather than data, we shall verify if medieval and contemporary art aim for the same goals and, function the same way when they use within the same works text and image considered as the major means of expression. The idea of studying rigidity of unquestionable traditions from East to West is not seen in a context of geographic limits, instead East and West are seen as a symbolic concept extended to a universal context. Contemporary art perceived as an institution of power elaborates its own new doctrines or recycled doctrines with the ambition to build at a world scale a New Age of artistic expression exclusively current. But won’t they rather risk entering a sort of morbid Dark Age? East and West, medieval and contemporary, are seen as aesthetic poles, like extremes of the Universe and raise the question: are they analogue or contradictory? The iconostasis in the East and the alterpiece in the West that appeared in the Middle Ages are paramount art creations for their high spiritual energy concentration and above all for their very strong informative concentration, probably equivalent to that of modern day multimedia. This polyfocality of medieval works attracts today’s artists that search for their aesthetic roots in the art of icon, that are driven by modern day media icon and that create works concentrating spiritual energies so as to reunite East and West
Bellanger, Christine. "L' iconographie du Christ aux Outrages en Occident chrétien à la fin du Moyen âge 1220-1534." Paris 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA010642.
Full textHermant, Maxence. "Art, artistes et commanditaires en Champagne du Nord (milieu du XVe-fin du XVIe siècle)." Paris, EPHE, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EPHE4037.
Full textMost of the studies and publications about the commission and production of works of art in Champagne in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have often focussed their interest only to Southern Champagne. Troyes was indeed at this time one of the most important artistic centers of the kingdom of France outside of Paris and the Loire Valley. Northern Champagne, around the archiepiscopal and episcopal cities of Rheims and Châlons, was not considered as a particularly active center. This study proposes to reassess its importance thanks two complementary ways: a tracking and analysis of works in all fields of artistic creation, and a wide recount of documentary sources, from the economic renewal in the middle of the fifteenth century to the late sixteenth century
Genest, Renée. "Les formes circulaires sculptées : Étude de cas : la frise à médaillons du portail roman de l'église abbatiale de Cluny au XIIe et XIIIe siècles." Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/28813/28813.pdf.
Full textColin, Marie-Geneviève. "Edifices et objets du culte chrétien dans le paysage rural de Novempopulanie (IVe-Xe siècles) : recherches d'archéologie et d'histoire." Toulouse 2, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOU20082.
Full textThe present work endeavours to bring to the fore Novempopulanian countryside progressive conversion to Christianity forms and modes, from buildings and Christian liturgical objects between the IVth and the Xth c. In this strongly Romanity borrowing province, a first scattering of churches seems to have been precociously built in the villages from the first half of the Vth c. Rich converted landowners built on the their properties private oratories a short time after. Antique built spaces re-used at the time of necropolis introduction or at the time of preromanesque and romanesque churches foundations, indicates the long establishment time of certain sites. A second cultual building generation appears in the second half of the VIIth and VIIIth c. , during this period the transpyrenean relations assert clearly. Arnesp church architecture and adornment in Valentine (Haute-Garonne french department) inspired by the VIIth c. Hispano-Visigothic architecture, are exemplaries in the spect. The rural Christian topography finishes take shape with the monastic initiative multiplication striking the Carolingian time. All conditions are combined from that time on, so that the rural parish may set according to the medieval term sense
Yaiche, Salah. "Le couvent chrétien comme genre littéraire médiéval." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO30080.
Full text« The Monasteries Books » (kutub al-Diyārāt) are the object of this thesis; they are thematic anthologies of medieval time. They describe the stays of Muslims in Christian monasteries in pursuit of entertainment.Of those anthologies, originally composing half a dozen titles, only one book has reached us: the book untitled al-Diyārāt by al-šābuštī. The other works have only reached us through extracts found in secondhand books. This thesis attempts to fill in the gaps in this documentation by restoring the extracts from the lost works.This work of restoration is paralleled with an examination of the “genre” notion. The author, through a chronological perspective, sheds a light on the evolution of the writing that has come about from authors such as Ibn al-Kalbī (m. 821) or al-šābuštī (m.998), but also al-ḫālidiyyān, al-Iṣbahānī, al-Sarī al-Raffā’, al-šāmšāṭī and Ibn Ramḍān al-Naḥwī. This evolution is studied with the same approach as the history of science, mentioned in this study through the concept of paradigm. The attempt is to show that this particular literary “genre” has known, through those authors, a genesis, a rise and a peak before conflicting with new anomalies causing its paradigmatic decomposition
Sitbon, Suzy. "Interdit de la représentation dans le judaïsme et création artistique : leçons des bibles médiévales de l'Espagne." Paris, EPHE, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005EPHE5006.
Full textDo no graven images in the Judaism open another way of artistic creation toward abstraction and transcendence? We fix our choice on Massoretic Bibles of the Iberian Peninsula whose ornamentation I built on geometrical forms drawn by the Massore without figurative representation (Bibliothèque national de France, Hebrew 11-13-14-15-20-22-24-25-1314-1315 et 5-6 – 10 ; Bibliothèque municipale de Marseille, MS 1626/II et British Library OR 2201-2626-2628 et la Bible anciennement Sassoon 508). Four conceptualized and tested methods give another access to these ornaments. No graven images has opened the way to a visual artistic system on the move. The reader who stands himself gazing at these forms sprinfs up the image thanks to an inner physical, intellectual and spiritual moving. These bibles conceal a scriptural exegesis or mystical meaning in visible or hidden ways
Riand, Emmanuelle. "Recherche sur les châsses d'orfèvrerie du VIIe au XIIIe siècle conservées en France." Paris 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA010538.
Full textBussière, Roselyne. "L'Abbaye de Lagny au Moyen âge : histoire et architecture." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040397.
Full textFounded by st fursy around 650, wrecked by the Vikings, then restored by earl "Herbert de Champagne" around 1000, Lagny's abbey was once more helped by the family of champagne, when "Henri le liberal" and abbot Hugues, his brother, rebuilt the monastery, repaired the ancient nave and erected a new choir after a fire broke out in 1157. But a new fire in 1184 slowed the works and abbot Jean Britel, taking advantage of the abbey's prosperity, especially due to the fairs in Champagne, began to build a new and vast sanctuary. First and fare most, the radiant chapels were built and the lady axial chapel was dedicated in 1206. In the following decade, the lower level of the choir was finished. But the decline of the fairs, the end of privileged links with the earls of Champagne become the beginning of a very difficult period; the triforium was built around 1250 but the choir was never vaulted. The hundred years' war and the wars of religion increased difficulties and st Pierre abbey had to enter the st Maur congregation in the XVIIth century. The community disappeared during revolution
Jeudy, Fabienne. "L'architecture religieuse en Haute-Saône à l'époque gothique : (de la fin du XIIe siècle au début du XIVe siècle)." Thesis, Besançon, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011BESA1020.
Full textThe Gothic art appeared in Ile-de-France by 1135 reached the department of the Haute-Saône, part north of the Burgundy’s county depending on the Germanic Empire in the XIIth and XIIIth centuries, about 1160s. The Cistercians played a role determining in the introduction of this new art to build in the region. At the end of the XIIth century, this mode of construction besides remained the privilege of their abbey churches. The Gothic formulae indeed became widespread in the whole of the religious buildings only at the dawn of the XIIIth century. This precise moment marks the point of departure of this report of doctorate which has for object to determine the stages of formation of the Gothic from Franche-Comté and to follow its evolution up to the repercussions of the fashions put in the honor in the XIIIth century in this place situated in the hinge between the kingdom of France and the Germanic Empire. In spite of the adoption of the main forms of the first Gothic art (diagonal ribs, foothills), the architecture remained at first anchored in the Romanic tradition of the XIIth century particularly marked by the return in the vita apostolica lauded by the Gregorian reform. This tradition of simplicity could only be shaken by an order arranged in the sobriety, the Cistercian order, from which many characteristic architectural elements was borrowed for the first constructions Gothic as to Purgerot, Bétoncourt-les-Ménétriers and in the nave of the abbey church of Luxeuil, the large-scale construction site of which opened at the end of 1230s. The opening of architects in the classic Gothic, certainly moderated, occurred only near 1240 (they kept their attachment in the values of muralité, in Pesmes for example). The radiant art made its appearance in the 1270s in Luxeuil, through the close Lorraine. But the implementation of a glazed apse did not however constitute an irreversible stage in the construction because the buildings of modest scale raised to the end of the XIIIth century and at the beginning of the next century present a particularly conservative character, in echo doubtless in the new pastoral: that of begging orders. The constructions are simple and the architectural decoration, which has not inspired the sculptors in Franche-Comté very much, tiny. Only the mouldings, completely in adequacy with that of contemporary buildings of the kingdom of France, have allowed placing the churches in the chronology. Well known to the architects, they testify of their will deliberated to adapt the new forms to the Franche-Comté’s tradition. The Gothic architecture is thus in Haute-Saône at once in his time and out of the modes, this tropism makes its peculiarity
Ruchaud, Elisabeth. "Les représentations du Saint-Sépulcre : dans les images, les architectures, les rites et les textes (fin du IXe - début du XIIe siècle)." Paris, EHESS, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EHES0019.
Full textThe purpose of this research is to analyze the phenomenon of copies or representations of the Holy Sepulchre in the West between the end of the Carolingian era and during the Romanesque period, and to determine the evolution of the exegetical thought of the Christian faith till the twelfth century. In a first part it seems important to replace the importance of the model of the Anastasis Rotunda in Jerusalem not only in the gospels and the medieval thought, but also in its different translations, visual as well as intellectual. Sole relic of the resurrection and sole witness of the messianic promises, the Anastasis Rotunda is one and perhaps even the most important church for the Christians. This research proposes to analyze the different way the church of Jerusalem was used in the West and its place in the theological discussion of the middle Ages. First ail the liturgy, understood as the permanent updating of the life of Christ for the faithful, places the Anastasis at the centre of the Easter liturgy, firstly in Jerusalem and then in the Western kingdoms. The graphic arts (illumination, ivory sculpture. . . ) are also considered because of the use of some architectural form to express the symbolic contents and meanings of the monument. Finally, a particular attention is given to the architectural variations of the Holy Sepulchre, the construction witnessing a return of pilgrimage or having a funerary connotation …The show a direct or indirect worship to the relic of the Resurrection and testify of a faith in the heavenly Jerusalem. All these representations translates a specific relation not only with Jerusalem but also with the theological background surrounding the questions concerning the Resurrection, the second coming of Christ and the heavenly Jerusalem
Cho, Soo-Jeong. "Les saintes femmes dans les églises byzantines de Cappadoce." Paris 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA010554.
Full textKlinka, Emmanuelle. "Analyse sémiotique des miniatures des codex du "Commentaire à l'Apocalypse" du Beatus de Liébana." Aix-Marseille 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1995AIX10005.
Full textI intended to study miniatures created from the eight to the twelvth century. They belong to the various codices of the comment of the apocalypse, known as beatus. I selected fifteen out of the twenty two embellished codices wich keep well-preserved nowadays, on the basis of a corpus of seventeen illustrative themes. For that purpose, i founded my study on a semiotic point of vue which i adapted to iconography. I therefore analysed every sign and its spatial situation withinb the drawing. The main parts of my study are : a presentation of my corpus, of its author and of the historical context. An analytic part of the work which at first shows the rules of the work which at first shows the rules of the formal display arrangements in the middle-ages. I then tackled the problem of the interiority and exteriority shown by some drawing - which i called "containing-drawings" - using for that the framework of the drawing as well as a sign-symbology. Given that, i was able to study their meaning defending on the presence of the various constituents, i. E. Put back in their pictorial context, i considered them as elements of the whole drawing. I compared my conclusions with the interpretation offered by beatus of the apocalypse. As a conclusion, i came back to the role played by striped backgrounds and by colour, of which i tried to explain the functions. I ended by a historico-cultural actualization of the codices. The analysis of the signs and structures allows us to tackle and decode the politico-religious message conciously expressed by the painter. It also discloses the socio-cultural dimension in which lived the artist
Dumitrescu, Ana. "Représentations byzantines du Jugement dernier à la fin du Moyen Âge." Paris 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA010592.
Full textMitalaité, Kristina. "La philosophie et la théologie de l'image artificielle dans les "Libri Carolini"." Paris, EPHE, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004EPHE5028.
Full textRichardot, Philippe. "De re militari. Mille ans de guerre en lisant Végèce (Ve-XVe siècles) : la tradition médiévale d'un traité d'art militaire tardoantique." Toulouse 2, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995TOU20088.
Full textTowards the end of the fourth century a. D. , Vegetius wrote a treatise De re military dedicated to the emperor Theodosius 1st. Vegetius proposed a reform of the army to resolve the military crisis undermining the late roman empire. During the millennium after the fall of Rome, Vegetius was the most read military author in western Europe
Iskandar, Mirvat. "Le développement de l'art de la guerre chez les Ayyoubides en Syrie et en Égypte (567/1171 - 648/1250) : (étude approfondie sur la période des Francs d'après les sources arabes)." Paris, EHESS, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EHES0026.
Full textHuman being didn't stop one day to invent everything that is necessary to kill others. Thousand of men, women and children were killed during the two centuries of fighting between Franks and Muslims in the Middle East, in order to serve the Holy War. Unfortunately, the war between those two sides was the best opportunity of contact between the two civilizations of East and West, especially in the twelfth century. Each party adapted what was useful to the conflict either in besieging places or in open land battles. The war was not only waged between these two conflicting forces, as the conflict between the members of the Ayyubid dynasty after Saladin's death were more violent in several occasions than with the Franks. This study, relying upon contemporary Arab sources and Islamic traditions, analyzes all the methods for practicing the war in Ayyubid times for almost one century according
Amossé-Reveret, Julia. "Espace liturgique en Bulgarie de l’Antiquité Tardive à la fin du Ier Royaume bulgare." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2020. http://theses.bu.uca.fr/nondiff/2020CLFAL001_AMOSSE-REVERET_1.pdf.
Full textThis PhD analysing Christianism, liturgical space and decoration in protobyzantine territory of the actual Bulgaria purpose to define Christian protobyzantine art in Bulgaria. Bulgaria, which borders always kept moving during the medieval period, is a country of great interest as far as its geographic position as a crossroads is concerned. Indeed, since the Thrace era, many different ethnic groups and civilizations met and mingled with each other: Bulgaria is a convergence spot between the cultures of West and East Roman Empires on one hand, ethnic groups from the North and from the Mediterranean and Central Asian areas, located between both the Aral and the Caspian Seas, on the other.Moreover, this is such an interesting area as it is close to the imperial capital, Constantinople, and also a important christian center Salonica. Therefore, it seems useful to analyse the Byzantine power's influence over the development and progress of Christian art in these Balkan lands since the Late Antiquity to under Boris-Michel the First's reign. The point of this analysis is to initiate some serious thinking over the issue of artistic production drawn according to the multi-cultural and multi-ethnical heritage. But also to think about the great influence of an artistic, political, economical and religious spot. In the end, the analysis of the art expression cannot be clearly understood without a focus on the relationships between Christian art and the faithful people or clergy member.However, this study is mainly based on the observation of architectural art with the analysis of the design of cultural buildings, i.e. plans, spatial organizations and their evolution, but also on monumental and plastic decorative art. In this way, we wish to understand to what extent the liturgical space in Bulgaria today is a place of fusion between an official art defined by political and religious powers and an art of the faithful endowed with a technical, cultural and artistic heritage coming from the different cultures present on these lands, however, by measuring its limits and the impact of its conception in the face of its proximity to a radiant and influential cultural and religious centre, what is Constantinople? The study is based in particular on a critical corpus and a database containing a large majority of Christian buildings discovered in present-day Bulgaria in order to provide a better understanding of the relationships established between architecture and object, but also on the circulation and organisation of buildings and the roles assigned to certain spaces. Archaeological sources as well as written sources are naturally the fundamental tools for this study and for understanding the mentalities, customs, liturgy and political, economic and religious contexts of these regions. In this way, we hope to bring new avenues of work in the field of research on Byzantine art and artistic productions from territories often perceived as Constantinople's "hinterlands". We also wish to bring new elements to the understanding of mentalities during the protobyzantine period, of the perception of art by the faithful and of their relations not only with the Christian religion but especially with the house of God