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Botez, Ana. "Rich Materiality: A Hermeneutic Approach to Byzantine Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1313768425.
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Ruggieri, Vincenzo. "Byzantine architecture (A.D. 582-867) : churches and monasteries." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328006.
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Yioutani-Iacovides, Maria. "Post-Byzantine Church architecture in Cyprus, 1191-1571." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400408.
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Post-Byzantine Church Architecture in Cyprus during the period 1191-1571is crucial in the history of the island's architecture. It was influenced by two different traditions: the eastern Byzantine and the western medieval Gothic-Renaissance This architecture has been undervalued and only briefly discussed by scholars and historians, whereas the firescoes in the monuments have been thoroughly studied. This thesis seeks to establish how Post-I]yzantine Church Architecture developed under the influence of the historic circumstances of that time. it deals with Post-Byzantine architectural styles, lljcantine and Franco-Býwantine, the churches' typology, and the construction technology employed throughout the island. The research method has pursued two lines: extensive recording by visits to the churches and a review of the relevant literature. The intention of this research was to consider and study all the Post-Byzantine churches (around 301 churches) that were built or altered in the period 1191-1571, and which have retained their Original characteristics until the present day. Extensive visits were only possible to 206 of them; the others were studied through the literature, earlier photos, drawings, engravings and historical maps. An additional valuable source of information has been the fivsco-icons that illustrate models of the churches. The method of analysis was based on the classification of the churches according to their architectural style, types and their chronology. The thesis is divided into three parts (seven chapters). The first part tram historical information from the survey of the literature and analyses the author's observations after an assessment of the structural condition of the churches. The second, and main part describes the historical value of the churches and examines the development of the churches' architectural styles and types, their characteristics and architectural details. It also looks at construction materials, methods and techniques, and examines the geophysical characteristics of the island. ne third part sets out the conclusions.
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Ousterhout, Robert G. "The architecture of the Kariye camii in Istambul /." Washington : Dumbarton oaks research library and collection, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37394946g.
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Teteriatnikov, Natalia. "The liturgical planning of Byzantine churches in Cappadocia." Roma : Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1996. http://books.google.com/books?id=W1xhAAAAMAAJ.
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Clark, Anne L. (Anne Lauren). "An architecture study of a Byzantine-resilient processor using authentication." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34101.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123).
This architecture study provides the ground work for implementing a new generation of Byzantine resilient processors using authentication. The use of authentication allows a significant reduction in the theoretical requirements necessary for providing Byzantine resilience, or the ability to continue correct operation in the presence of arbitrary or even malicious faults. This decrease in requirements led to a goal of providing a system which combines the stringent standards embodied by Byzantine resilience with the lower costs necessary to make the system viable for more markets than previous Byzantine resilient processors. A layering scheme is proposed which can be placed between the user and hardware. These layers consist of protocols which provide the basic building blocks of the architecture. The proposed authentication protocol which provides the digital signatures used to verify the origin and contents of messages is a public-key protocol using 32-bit Cyclic Redundancy Codes (CRC's) to encode the message with 32-bit modular inverse key pairs to sign and authenticate the CRC. An interactive consistency protocol responsible for correctly distributing single-source data between processors is built using the SM(m) algorithm from [LSP82] with improvements suggested in [Dol83]. A voting protocol responsible for generating a group consensus value guaranteed to be the same on all nonfaulty processors suggests exchanging unsigned messages and then using a full-set majority vote choice() function to calculate the group consensus value. Finally, the proposed synchronization protocol needed to provide synchronized virtual clocks on all nonfaulty processors is placed on top of a full message exchange (FME) known as a From_all exchange to read the clocks on other processors. A time adjustment is then calculated using a technique suggested in [LM84].
by Anne L. Clark.
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Hatjigiannis, Michel. "L'architecture byzantine à l'époque des paléologues : le cas du Catholicon de l'Olympiotissa à Elasson (Thessalie)." Paris 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA010541.
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L'Olympiotissa est la seule église byzantine a coupole de Thessalie, qui est restée intacte. Cette église porte, plus que les autres, l'empreinte de la tradition architecturale de la Macédoine voisine. La datation (1296-1305) est établie grâce à l'inscription figurant sur la porte en bois sculpte. L'église est conforme au type assez rare désigne sous le nom d' "église à coupole avec galeries enveloppantes". La coupole est du type "macédonien simple". Les hautes arcades aveugles, des façades nord et sud, sont un élément que la Thessalie et l'Épire ont emprunte à la macédoine. Les faites et les corniches festonnées caractérisent les églises macédoniennes et constantinopolitaines. Le décor de briques très abondant de l'église et les proportions élancées marquent l'architecture des paléologues. Le cachet particulier de Thessalonique et de son entourage se fait clairement sentirThe church of Panaghia Plympiotissa is the single one with dome of the region of Thessaly (central Greece) that has been preserved undamaged. Its architecture is influenced by the architectural tradition of the neighbouring Macedonia, more than the others remained churches of the Thessaly. The datation of the church in the early palaeologan period (1294-1305) is given by the inscription on its woodcarved door. The plan of the church is of the so called "ambulatory type". The dome belongs to the "simple Macedonian type". The high blind arcades of the northern and southern facades are borrowed elements from Macedonia. The eaves lines are usually scalloped in Macedonia and Constantinople. The architecture of the palaeologan period is marked by an abondant decorative brickwork and the general morphology presents slender structural elements. The obvious influence of the architecture of Thessaloniki, especially that of the holy apostles, is clearly established on the bases of comparisons between the Thessalian, Macedonian and Serbian churches of the early Palaeologan period
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Sinkević, Ida. "The Church of St. Panteleimon at Nerezi architecture, programme, patronage /." Wiesbaden : Reichert, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39168651h.
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Milson, David. "Aspects of the impact of Christian art and architecture on synagogues in Byzantine Palestine." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:17261fb5-fbfb-4417-90a3-f0d01673f262.
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This thesis examines the relationship between Jews and Christians in the Holy Land from the age of Constantine the Great to the conquest of the eastern provinces by the Arabs from an archaeological viewpoint. At stake is a better understanding of how Jews adapted to changing times, particularly during the rise of Christianity in Palestine. Whereas earlier scholars have viewed the growth of the Byzantine empire as time of persecution toward the Jews, a re-evaluation of the archaeological evidence indicates that Jews prospered along with their Christian neighbors. In scope, this dissertation aims first to re-evaluate how many ancient building remains can be classified as synagogues, and how many of those can be accurately dated. For only after a solid body of archaeological research is firmly established can further progress be made toward our better understanding of the ancient world. Diversity in contemporaneous synagogue layouts, rather than a linear development throughout this period is the norm. Yet, in the sixth-century, one-third of all known synagogues in Palestine bear similar features to early Byzantine churches: basilical layouts, mosaic floors, apses, and chancel screens. Since no single fourth-century synagogue had an apse or chancel screen in its repertoire of furnishings, a reform must have taken place, which ultimately enhanced the synagogue. It has long been held that this change had originated under the influence of the growing Christian population in the Holy Land. Examining the nature of early Christian liturgical practice throws light on these changes to synagogues. For the focal point of the early Christian basilica, the altar in the sanctuary, separated from the hall by a chancel screen, was adapted by these Jewish communities. By placing the Torah Shrine in the apse of synagogues, the sacred nature of the Five Books of Moses was glorified. In focusing on the apse and niche it is suggested that rather than a positive influence toward the Jews, the deeply-rooted rivalry between Christianity and Judaism was the main implement for change. Jewish leaders built synagogues with apses and chancel screens to amplify and venerate the most important object in the hall - the Torah Scrolls - kept in the Torah Ark. Unlike earlier buildings, the Torah Shrine was set in the same position as the altar in churches, in the apse. Renovating interiors, changes to entrances, and new types of furnishings in synagogues were the physical changes to this institution which reflect the impact of Christian art on synagogues.
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Ristovska, Ana. "L'église Saint-Georges de Pološko (Macédoine) : recherche sur le monument et ses peintures murales (XIVe siècle)." Paris, EPHE, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EPHE5015.
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La thèse porte sur l’étude de l’église funéraire de Saint-Georges, monastère de Pološko se trouvant aujourd’hui en République de Macédoine. Cette étude examine le monument, son histoire, son architecture et surtout sa peinture. L’étude du décor de l’église, en grande partie encore inédite, a permis d’éclaircir plusieurs éléments iconographiques originaux, rares, ou qui apparaissent pour la première fois dans l’art byzantin. Elle a aussi permis de mieux comprendre l’art byzantin de l’époque, l’activité des différents ateliers de la peinture, le rôle des donateurs dans la conception de la peinture, ainsi que la situation politique et la société dans cette partie des Balkans au XIVe siècleThe thesis is a study of the funeral church of St. George, monastery of Pološko in the Republic of Macedonia. This study examines the monument, its history, its architecture and especially its painting, dating from the 14th century. The study of the decor of the church, mostly still unpublished, clarified several original and rare iconographic elements, or elements that appear for the first time in Byzantine art. It allowed a better understanding of the byzantine art of the epoch, the activity of different painting workshops, the role of the donors in the creation of the painting, as well as the political situation and the society in this part of the Balkans in the 14th century
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Pralong, Annie. "Recherches sur les chapiteaux corinthiens tardifs en marbre de Proconnèse." Paris 1, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA010609.
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Les carrières de marbre de l'ile de Proconnèse ont connu une exploitation intensive durant l'antiquité et l'époque protobyzantine. Cette production de masse a eu pour conséquence une importante diffusion dans tout le bassin méditerranéen du matériel architectonique fabriqué dans ce matériau. La thèse, consacrée aux chapiteaux corinthiens tardifs a un double objectif : d'une part mettre au point une typologie permettant de comprendre l'évolution des différents types recensés et d'autre part utiliser les critères choisis sur des bases stylistiques bien définies, pour déterminer la provenance de chapiteaux conserves loin de la capitale byzantine. La typologie a tout d'abord été fondée sur le type de feuilles d'acanthe utilisé (acanthe molle et acanthe épineuse) puis chaque groupe a été réparti suivant la morphologie du chapiteau : chapiteaux à deux couronnes, chapiteaux à deux couronnes et feuilles engainantes, chapiteaux à une couronne et feuilles engainantes ou feuilles d'angle. L'analyse fine et les corrélations établies grâce à l'informatique ont montré que les ateliers ont tendance à simplifier les chapiteaux et à les rendre de plus en plus compacts. Ceci se vérifie par la localisation des spécimens sur le pourtour méditerranéen. Les chapiteaux a 8 feuilles sont les moins exportes, à la différence des chapiteaux à 4 ou 5 feuilles. D'autre part les chapiteaux à une couronne sont les plus nombreux et les plus exportésThe marble quarries located in the proconnesus island were very busy all over the ancient times, et specially during the protobyzantine period. The intensive production meaned to a huge exportation in every part of the Mediteranean area. The thesis, devoted to the late corinthian capitals has two chief aims : first, the establishment of a formal typology for understanding the evolution of the different identified kinds of Corinthian capitals, and the selection of stylistical criterions for determining the origin of capitals located far from constantinople. The first criterion was the type of acanthus leaves observed on the capitals : crowded acanthus or mask acanthus. Then the morphology of the capitals of the two groups have used for the determination of the types : capitals with two rows of leaves, capitals with two rows of leaves and "engainantes" leaves, chapitals with a single row of leaves and angle leavez or "engainantes" leaves. The correlations established with computer methods have demonstrated that the workshops simplify the capitals et produce morre and more compact exemplars. This evidence has been confirmed by the localisation of the samples all around the Mediterranean sea. The 8 leaves capitals are the least exported, and the 4 or 5 leaves are the more exported. We observed too that the types very much diffused capitals belong to the types with a single row of leaves
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Butler, Bryan P. (Bryan Philip). "A fault-tolerant shared memory system architecture for a Byzantine resilient computer." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13360.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1989.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-147).
by Bryan P. Butler.
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Michel, Anne. "Les églises de la Jordanie byzantine : architecture et liturgie (Ve-VIIIe siècles)." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040305.
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Les fouilles récentes ont permis de dégager de nombreuses églises de l'époque byzantine en Jordanie. Il existe de nombreuses études spécialisées, mais elles ne portent jusqu'à présent que sur des édifices particuliers ; aucune étude de synthèse n'a encore été proposée, et les conclusions établies s'avéraient souvent incomplètes. Le bon état de conservation des édifices et l'abondance de la documentation la rendaient possible. Pour établir une base de départ, il s'agissait de la réunir, ce qui a donné lieu à l'élaboration d'un catalogue, qui réunit les données essentielles sur ces églises, ordonnées selon des fiches normalisées. Il permit l'établissement d'une étude de synthèse, fondée dans les deux premières parties sur l'analyse comparative et thématique de l'architecture et des installations liturgiques. Il s'agissait, en examinant un par un les différents éléments constitutifs de l'église, de discerner s'il se dessinaient des groupes régionaux ou chronologiques et s'ils se distinguaient ou non des autres édifices connus dans les régions voisines. La troisième partie de l'étude de synthèse dépasse ces premières analyses, en considérant les églises dans leur ensemble. Ces recherches ont abouti à l'établissement de trois groupes provisoires : on doit distinguer les chapelles et édifices de petites dimensions, les églises urbaines de dimensions moyennes, dans lesquelles on distingue une évolution des installations liturgiques, et enfin les grands groupes complexes, dont l'interprétation pose souvent encore des problèmes, mais dont certains peuvent avoir fait l'objet de pèlerinagesThe recent archeological excavations in Jordan allowed to uncover numerous churches of the byzantine period. A lot of specialized studies do exist, but until now, they deal only with some particular buildings - no general survey has been undertaken. A considerable number of churches being well preserved, in a first step the abundant documentary material, scattered in specialized reviews, had to be assembled. In order to create a solid base on which to found all further work, the informations collected were organized in a catalogue of all byzantine churches actually known. Their basic informations were classed according to a standardized model. This preparatory work allowed the development of a synthetic study, which in the first two sections is based on the comparative and thematic analysis of the architecture and the liturgic installations. In examining one by one the different components of the churches, we tried to single out the different regional and chronological groups. Another aim was to find out whether the churches of Jordan differ or not from those built in the adjoining regions. The third section of the synthesis reaches further than these first analyses in considering the churches in their integrality. These studies led to the establishment of three provisory groups: one has to distinguish between the chapels and the constructions of mirror dimensions, the larger civic churches, and finally the big complexes formed by several churches. The interpretation of the latter often still causes problems, but some of them might have been centers of pilgrimage
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Preradovic, Dubravka. "Bisanzio sull'Adriatico nel IX e X secclo : topografia sacra." Paris, EPHE, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EPHE5010.
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En 812, l’Adriatique fut divisée par le traité de paix d’Aix-la-Chapelle entre deux empires, byzantin et carolingien. Avec de nouvelles conditions économiques et sociales, politiques et religieuses, on peut observer, après plus de deux siècles de silence, l’établissement du pouvoir byzantin en Adriatique. Celui-ci a comme conséquences l’introduction de l’organisation thématique, les translations de reliques et l’introduction du culte de saints provenant de Byzance; parallèlement se développe une activité importante de construction qui apporte la création de nouvelles formes architecturales et un changement de la structure urbaine dans les villes préexistantes. Dix-huit villes sont étudiées, la présentation suivant l’organisation thématique byzantine. Chaque ville présente des spécificités dans sa topographie sacrée, qui dépendent de plusieurs facteurs : la présence ou l’absence de culte de martyrs et saints locaux, l’époque de l’établissement de l’organisation ecclésiastique, les circonstances politiques etc. Grâce à une étude pluridisciplinaire prenant en compte ces facteurs, ainsi que les monuments existant, les vestiges archéologiques et diverses sources historiques, il a été possible de déterminer les caractéristiques communes à ces villes. On a pu ainsi mettre en évidence deux principales 'strates' de cultes, celle de l’époque de l'évangélisation et celle correspondant à l’époque de la domination byzantine aux IXe et Xe siècles, mais aussi la régionalisation du culte des saints, ce qui ne permet pas d'étudier l’Adriatique comme un espace unitaireFollowing the Treaty of Aachen (812) the Adriatic Sea was divided between two empires, the Byzantine and the Carolingian. The new economic, social, political and religious circumstances had provoked, after more than two centuries of silence, the activation of the Byzantine in the Adriatic resulting in the introduction of the thematic organization on both coasts of the sea. This activation was followed by the translations of the relics of saints and by the introduction of the cults of saints originating from Byzantium. At the same time, it is possible to observe the significant construction activity which has led to the formation of the new architectural forms and to changes of urban structure in the existing cities. According to the Byzantine thematic organization eighteen cities are presented. Each one of them demonstrates the specificity of sacral topography, which depends on several factors such as the presence, i. E. , the absence of cults of local martyrs and saints, the time of establishment of the ecclesiastical organization, political circumstances, etc. Thanks to the multidisciplinary research which took into account the aforementioned factors, the existing monuments or their archaeological remains, and different historical sources, it was possible to determine the common characteristics between cities, e. G. , two dominant cult layers with one originating from the time of the evangelization and the second corresponding to the period of the Byzantine domination in the ninth and tenth centuries. The research also confirmed that the regionalization of the cult of saints does not allow the study of the Adriatic as a unique space
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Ozturk, Fatma Gul. "A Comparative Architectural Investigation Of The Middle Byzantine Courtyard Complexes In Aciksaray - Cappadocia: Questions Of Monastic And Secular Settlement." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611990/index.pdf.
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This dissertation investigates a middle Byzantine (10th-11th c.) typology, the rock-cut Courtyard Complexes, spread throughout Cappadocia in central Turkey, with a special focus on the Açiksaray Group. Usually organized around three sided courtyards, these complexes stand either within an ensemble or in isolation. Nevertheless, the concentration of complexes is remarkable on strategic points near fortresses or military roads. Courtyard Complexes have large receptional suites as well as utilitarian spaces such as kitchens, stables and apparently multi-functional rooms all carved around a courtyard. The majority of the complexes have their own churches also carved in the rock mass. High decorated faç
ades adorn the Courtyard Complexes and make them visible from a considerable distance. Because of the distinctive elaborate design, and the large number of still standing examples, as well as the communal life style that they indicate, these Cappadocian complexes have attracted scholarly attention in both monastic and secular Byzantine studies. Consequently, it was necessary for the dissertation to reconsider both religious and secular communities and their physical expressions in the form of monasteries and various dwelling types of the era. On the other hand, the idiosyncratic volcanic landscape and carved architecture required an extensive comparative architectural investigation of all Courtyard Complexes known so far in Cappadocia. Based on the results coming out from the contextual studies and architectural analysis this dissertation proposes aristocratic families with a military function on this border land of Byzantine as the initial inhabitants of the Courtyard Complexes. The Aç
iksaray Group in particular, with the paucity of its churches contrasting its elaborate stables, bears the traces of a secular medieval community of some importance.
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Vanderheyde, Catherine. "La sculpture architecturale méso byzantine empire du Xe au XIIIe siècle." Paris 1, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA010682.
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Le sujet de la thèse concerne l'étude de la sculpture architecturale méso byzantine conservée en Epire. Au total, 235 bas-reliefs - dont 76 inédits - dates des Xe-XIIIe siècles ont été rassemblés dans un catalogue. L'histoire des lieux de provenance de chacun des reliefs répertoriés est étudiée dans la première partie de la thèse. La deuxième partie traite des matériaux, des outils et des techniques utilisés par les sculpteurs. Une analyse du répertoire ornemental des reliefs est contenue dans la troisième partie. La recherche menée dans chacune des parties de la thèse met en évidence les caractéristiques essentielles de la sculpture architecturale méso byzantine conservée en Epire. Au-delà des découvertes purement archéologiques (ateliers de sculpteurs, diffusion des motifs,. . . ), cette étude témoigne d'un développement urbain en Epire à la période méso byzantine, avant la naissance du despotatThe subject of the thesis concerns the study of the middle-byzantine architectural sculpture of Epiros. All in all, 235 reliefs - of which 76 are unpublished - from the 10th to the 13th century are gathered in a catalogue. The history of the places from which the reliefs come has been studied in the first part of the thesis. The second part deals with the stones, the tools and the carving techniques used by the sculptor. The third part is a thorough study of the reliefs' patterns. These three parts of the thesis show the main characteristics of the mesobyzantine sculpture of Epiros. Beside the archaeological discoveries (sculptors' workshops, patterns' diffusion,. . . ). This study proves the existence of an urban development in epiros in the mesobyzantine period, before the birth of the despotate
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Duncan, Carrie Elaine Magness Jodi. "An investigation into the geography, theology, and architecture of the Byzantine monastery at Tel Masos." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2119.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Feb. 17, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Religious Studies." Discipline: Religious Studies; Department/School: Religious Studies.
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Karachaliou, Ermioni. "The architectural and iconographic identity of Paliochora on Aegina : an introduction to its Late and Post Byzantine churches." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-architectural-and-iconographic-identity-of-paliochora-on-aegina-an-introduction-to-its-late-and-post-byzantine-churches(4d5fdfec-712e-4b7b-a875-b74404fba8cc).html.
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How can we approach the surviving evidence on Paliochora in order for it to become a site of cultural consciousness in a wider medieval context? Its architectural and iconographic identity is hidden in its thirty-four Late and Post Byzantine churches. This thesis constitutes the first complete interdisciplinary approach to this settlement accompanied by a detailed appendix in the second volume. The two parts of this study examine Paliochora through different perspectives which reveal different aspects of its character. Urban planning and individual architectural specificities are examined through the prism of four construction periods associated with political and economic factors. Structural variety and multiplicity raises questions concerning religious functions. The iconography, on the other hand, relies on the general Late Byzantine canons and influences, but demonstrates provincial tendencies and promotes a distinct style of fresco painting. Furthermore, the possible interference of the continuous Western presence creates new aspects for conceptual discussion in both fields. Consequently the three parameters of this comparative approach are underlined, either on an architectural or iconographic level: • Between the different examples in Paliochora • Within the vast array of Greek and Mediterranean ecclesiastical examples • In contrast to Western practices and models. Throughout the text problems of archaeological evidence and archival information are raised. However, this first effort to place and contextualise Paliochora on the map of existing late medieval cities of the Mediterranean is a call for further research in multiple disciplines. It is a survey which will be used as the basic material for any future actions related both to academic knowledge and restoration processes.
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Blake, Stacey A. "Competition or admiration? : Byzantine visual culture in Western Imperial Courts, 497-1002." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5958/.
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The following dissertation reassess previous explanations for the transmission of Byzantine iconography to western material culture that have been classified by the classical canon as being manifestations of a ‘barbarian’ ruler attempting to legitimize their fledgling culture. The tumultuous relationship between the east and the west during the Late Antique period to the middle Byzantine period and the subsequent visual culture that demonstrates cross-cultural exchange comprises the majority of my analysis. I approach the topic in a case study fashion focusing on five rulers: Theodoric, Charlemagne, and the three Ottos. The source material chosen for this dissertation varies as it has been selected based on claims by previous scholarship of demonstrating some level of Byzantine influence. My re-examination of these works includes the application of an interdisciplinary theoretical framework first postulated by Robert Hayden: Competitive Sharing. This theory suggests that material culture displaying syncretism was not a reflection of admiration, but of competition. An implication of this study is that art was an active participant in the relationship between the east and the west, serving as a communicative device, rather than as the more frequently cited passive role of a conduit for iconographical transmission or cultural legitimization.
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Charpentier, Gérard. "Les bains protobyzantins de la Syrie du nord : une transition entre thermes et hammâms." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000VERS0001.
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Les petits bains protobyzantins des "campagnes de la Syrie du nord" constituent un corpus au caractère régional fortement marque, homogène tant du point de vue morphologique et géographique, que du point de vue historique et culturel. Ces édifices, construits ou transformes à partir du verne siècle de notre ère, sont considérés généralement comme des bains de transition entre thermes et hammams. Ils sont associes à une nouvelle pratique du bain fondée, en partie, sur l'engouement du bain individuel au détriment du bain collectif. - ces établissements sont implantes dans certains villages du massif calcaire: cinq sont inventories dans les chaînons Nord, a Brad, Dana Nord, Guwaniye et deux a Babisqa ; cinq autres sont identifies à Sergilla, Mugleyya, Shinsharah, El-Bara et Frikya, cependant les critères d'identification sont contestables pour trois d'entre eux. Méritoires en leur temps, les hypothèses publiées par m. De vogue, h. C. Butler et g. Tchalenko sont à reprendre et à préciser grâce aux fouilles des bains des villages de Brad et de Sergilla, représentatifs des deux modèles extraits du corpus. Le premier semble largement répandu dans des villes de la Syrie moyenne, aux époques romaine, byzantine et Omeyyade, tandis que le second correspond au modèle local qui, à partir du verne siècle, se propage dans plusieurs villages avoisinants. En définitive, ces bâtiments font partie d'un ensemble de petits bains publics dont on peut suivre, en Syrie, l'évolution du 2e au 8e siècle, sans aucun hiatus, à la recherche d'une éventuelle filiation entre les thermes et les premiers hammams.
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Tsigonaki, Christina. "La sculpture architecturale en Crète à l'époque protobyzantine (IVe-VIIe siècles)." Paris 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA010588.
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Dresser un corpus régional de la sculpture architecturale de l'époque protobyzantine en Crète était au départ le but de cette thèse. L'abondance du matériel accumulé pendant plus d'un siècle de recherches et de fouilles archéologiques dans les monuments protobyzantins de l'île a justifié cette entreprise. Le matériel (564 spécimens recensés) divisé en grandes catégories (chapiteaux, bases, colonnes, plaques, piliers et piliers- colonnettes, ambons et tables) a été présenté suivant une classification typologique. Des comparaisons fondées sur l'étude à la fois des composants morphologiques et des schémas décoratifs démontrent les forts liens entre les sculptures découvertes en Crète et la production de la même époque dispersée dans tout le bassin Méditerranéen. Les indices chronologiques précis fournis par cette démarche sont d'une grande valeur pour la datation des monuments crétois dans lesquels ce matériel était employé. En outre, l'analyse aborde largement la question du commerce des marbres puisqu'une grande partie des sculptures découvertes en Crète, taillée dans le marbre de Proconnèse, était exportée sous une forme achevée depuis Constantinople. Les sculptures importées d'ateliers périphériques, comme celui de Thasos, ne font pas défaut/
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Nagatsuka, Yasushi. "Les églises byzantines en Laconie et dans ses environs : recherches sur leurs architectures et leurs fresques." Paris 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA010652.
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L'etude presentee, composee de trois parties, est fondee sur des observations portant sur l'architecture et les fresques des eglises byzantines en laconie (grece) et dans ses environs. Premiere partie: l'architecture. On distingue essentiellement trois types d'eglises: le type cruciforme a coupole centrale, le type a voute transversale, et la basilique a nef unique et voute en berceau, cette derniere etant plus caracteristique des eglises de laconie et en particulier de la region du magne. On constatera egalement que la seconde vague d'evangelisation de la region a ete marquee par l'introduction de nouveautes architectoniques de tradition orientale telles qu'on en trouve en armenie a l'epoque paleochretienne, en cappadoce aux x-xie siecles, et en crete aux xiiie et xixe siecles. Seconde partie: les programmes iconographiques. On constate des differences en cette matiere entre le nord et le sud de la laconie; alors que le nord fait volontairement abstraction de certains sujets (ascension, liturgie celeste, deisis), le sud se distingue par une tendance a l'abbreviation de ceux-ci qui traduit un mouvement indigene et conservateur unique en son genre. On retrouve neanmoins une certaine constance dans le programme iconographique d'une eglise a l'autre, comportant quelques particularites telles que l'absence totale de representation chronologique des evenements de la vie du christ au profit d'un mode de representation des sujets par paires. Troisieme partie: l'iconographie. On retrouve des modeles de schemas pour chaque sujet represente, dont le style eclectique propre a la region puise ses origines dans la combinaison d'elements provenant d'origines et d'epoques diverses: art paleochretien et iconographie ancienne orientale, associes a des elements plus "modernes" et constantinopolitains. On trouve par ailleurs deux sujets particuliers en laconie, qui sont la sainte face et le christ pres de la croixThe study presented, divided in three parts, is based on observations pertaining to the architecture and frescoes of byzantine churches in laconia (greece) and its surroundings. First part: the architecture. The churches are basically divided in three types: the cruciform type with a central dome, the transverse vault-type, and the basilica with single nave and barrel vault-type, which is the most typical among churches in laconia and particularly the magne region. We will also remark that the second wave of evangelization of the region was marked by the introduction of architectonic innovations of oriental tradition such as those found in armenia during the paleochristian period, in cappadoce during the tenth and eleventh centuries, and in crete during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Second part: the iconographic program. On this matter, we observe differences between the north and south of laconia; whilst the north voluntarily excludes certain subjects (the ascension, celectial liturgy, deisis), the south is distinguished by a tendency to abbreviate the latter that depicts an indigenous and conservative movement unique in tis kind. Nevertheless, a certain constance is traceable from one iconographic program of a church to another, that includes certain peculiarities such as the total absence of the chronological representation of the main events in the life of the christ in favor of a mode of representation of subjects by pairs. Third part: the iconography. We can recognize models of sketches for each subject of representation, of which the eclectic style singular to the region draws its origins in the combination of elements coming from sketches of diverse origins and periods: paleochristian art and ancient oriental iconography associated to more modern and "constantinopolitain" elements. Moreover, two particular subjects are found in laconia, which are the "saint face" and the "christ near the cross"
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Hattersley-Smith, Kara M. "Byzantine public architecture between the fourth and early eleventh centuries A.D. : with special reference to the towns of Macedonia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.291032.
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Pennas, Charalampos. "A study of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries Byzantine architecture and painting : the Church of Krena in Chios." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.650286.
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The subject of this dissertation is the study of the byzantine church of Krena in the island of Chios. The importance of the church lies not just in that it has survived virtually unspoilt in architectural terms, nor in that it preserves almost intact its original mural decoration, but in the fact that it belongs to the small group of precisely dated monuments of the late Komnenian period. A painted inscription in the narthex gives the date 1197, while the names of two Byzantine families of the period are encountered in the mural decoration of the church, namely the surnames Kodratos and Pagomenos. Hence, the study of the Byzantine church of Krena contributes to our understanding of the trends in Byzantine architecture and painting in the East Aegean region and the western Asia Minor during the end of the twelfth century, shortly before the Sack of Constantinople by the Latins. Moreover, the monument appears to constitute a key monument for the study of Byzantine art during the late twelfth century, expressing the new pictorial and aesthetic tendencies of the new era. The thesis is divided into the following main chapters: 1. HISTORICHAL FRAMEWORK First there is a brief history of Chios during the 11 th and 1 i h centuries. Taking into account the historical events of the period a comprehensive outline of the administrative, economic and social history of the island is attempted (1.1). Second, after a short reference to travelers' testimonies concerning the toponym Krena and the church of the Virgin itself (1.2), there is a detailed discussion of the founders' of the church, namely Eustathios Kodratos, and the Metropolitan of Hypaipa, Stephanos Pepagomenos, uncle of Kodratos' wife, a certain Pagomeni. The career of the two men is traced, as well as the social background of their families and their connection with the central imperial authority (1.3). Finally, there is the evidence of the inscriptions that exist on various marble architectural members, as well as in the painted decoration of the church. Except for the founders' inscriptions there are some others, which give precious infOlmation concerning the histOlY of the monument from the period of its foundation, at the end of the twelfth century, until the end of the nineteenth century (1.4). 2. ARCHITECTURE The chapter on the architecture deals first with a discussion on the origin of the domed octagon type, whose Krena is one of the latest dated examples (2.1). Next, there is a survey of the structural history of the church, focusing to its various architectural phases (2.2). Special references are made to the general structural features of the church (2.3). Domes, walls, openings either in the interior or in the exterior of the church, ceramoplastic decoration are examined in detail. An impOliant role for the original reconstruction of the upper parts of the church, after their destruction during the earthquake of 1881, plays the depicted model of the church offering from the founder Eustathios Kodratos to the Virgin. Finally, the contribution of Krena to the architecture of the twelfth century is discussed (2.4). Although, the main architectural type of Krena has its roots in a much earlier architectural film, not usual on the twelfth century, that of the octagon type, the monument employs new features which stress the plasticity of the exterior, making it a forerunner of Lascarid and consequently of Palaeologan architecture.
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El, Achi El Saadi Rola. "Les rues à colonnades romano-byzantines du Liban : étude d'archéologie, d'architecture et de conservation au travers des exemples de Byblos, Beyrouth et Tyr." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 1, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023PA01H050.
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Avec l'intégration de Byblos, Beyrouth et Tyr dans l'Empire romain, vers 64 avant J.-C., ces villes ont connu un renouveau architectural exceptionnel, qui a duré plusieurs siècles. Durant cette période, et d'après les fouilles entamées sur les sites au cours des XXe et XXIe siècles, il semble que le tissu urbain de chaque ville ait été réorganisé et doté de nouveaux monuments répondant autant que possible aux nouvelles exigences de standardisation et d'idéalisation architecturale. Parmi les vestiges qui nous renseignent sur la grandeur du paysage urbain romano-byzantin de Byblos, Beyrouth et Tyr figurent leurs rues à colonnades. La construction de ces artères principales qui reliaient les différents secteurs de chaque ville, débuta vers la fin du Ier siècle. Elle atteint son apogée au IIe siècle, puis connu un développement exceptionnel à la fin de l'Antiquité, avant de disparaitre complètement pendant les périodes médiévales et de tomber dans l'oubli. Cette thèse sera donc l'occasion d'examiner l'évolution historique, esthétique et fonctionnelle de ce type de monument. Elle nous permettra d'interpréter les données archéologiques recueillies sur le terrain en adoptant un croisement systématique des différents attributs identifiés, ce qui nous aidera à saisir les similitudes qui caractérisent les rues à colonnades du Liban, ainsi que les différences qui les distinguentWith the integration of Byblos, Beirut and Tyre into the Roman Empire, around 64 BC, these cities underwent an exceptional architectural revival, which lasted for several centuries. During this period, and according to the 20th and 21st centuries excavations that were undertaken on these sites, it seems that the urban fabric in each city was reorganized and endowed with new monuments that met as much as possible the new requirements of standardization and architectural idealization. Among the surviving ruins that tell us about the grandeur of the Roman-Byzantine urban landscape of Byblos, Beirut and Tyre stand their colonnaded streets. The construction of these main arteries, which linked the different sectors in each city, began towards the end of the 1st century. It reached its peak in the 2nd century and then underwent an exceptional development at the end of Antiquity, before disappearing completely during the medieval periods and falling into oblivion. This thesis will therefore be an opportunity to examine the historical, aesthetic and functional evolution of this type of monument. It will enable us to interpret the archaeological data collected on site by adopting a systematic cross-referencing of the various attributes identified, which will help us to grasp the similarities that characterize the colonnaded streets of Lebanon, as well as the differences that distinguish them
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Ginalis, Alkiviadis. "Byzantine ports : Central Greece as a link between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:06056474-143b-4547-b7eb-3bf635994295.
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This thesis presents a first archaeological introduction to the study of Byzantine ports, harbours and other coastal installations in the region of Thessaly. Thessaly not only constitutes an ideal region to gain equal information for the Early- to the Late Byzantine periods, but also to compare independent regional and imperial central building activities. However, in particular Thessaly’s maritime connectivity has never been studied in detail before. As such, a first step into a terra incognita, the thesis is divided into two main sections: In order to conceptualize the study of harbour sites, the thesis first sets up a framework for the definition, understanding and interpretation of the physical features of harbours and their function and purpose. Taking into account influencing environmental conditions, such as natural, economic, social and political components, this helps to determine an accurate hierarchical model and to illustrate the interrelationship between different types and forms of harbour sites. Subsequently, comprehensive archaeological investigations around the island of Skiathos and other harbour sites in Thessaly, executed in 2012 and 2013, are set against this theoretical groundwork. In contrast to the common approach of regional studies, where a first general overview is followed by individual detailed case-studies, the opposite methodology is undertaken in order to achieve a systematic study of the Thessalian harbours and the complexity of their network system. Consequently, the collection of data starts from the analysis of a distinct area of a region and continues with the broader regional picture of primary ports, secondary harbours and staple markets. Functioning as an important junction of the Aegean shipping lanes and being involved in regional as well as supra-regional trade and port networks, focus is therefore primarily dedicated to the island of Skiathos. A joint survey project in cooperation with the Greek Ephorate for Underwater Antiquities (EEA), the 13th Greek Ephorate for Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the 7th Greek Ephorate for Byzantine Antiquities was initiated by the author in 2012. A number of sites, including harbour installations and other coastal infrastructures, have been detected, documented and subsequently verified by geophysical prospections, using a Sub-bottom profiler and Side-Scan Sonar, in 2013. These have allowed to draw a clear historical picture of architectural developments, port networks and changes in the socio-economic connectivity of the area. Followed by a close investigation of further harbour sites throughout the entire region of Thessaly during two field seasons between 2012 and 2013, the detailed picture gained from the Skiathos survey project is brought to a wider context. This comparison finally allows an overall picture of the history and architectural developments of harbour structures and associated coastal sites, as well as general conclusions concerning the hierarchy and port network in the region during the Early to Late Byzantine periods. This has allowed a comprehensive understanding of the growth, use and decline of various ports, harbours and staple markets within Thessaly and has important repercussions for our understanding of wider social and economic changes that were occurring during these periods, such as the rise of the church as a powerful economic institution or the increasing activities of private entrepreneurs. In this way the submerged maritime heritage of Thessaly has provided a rich new resource with which to understand the cultural dynamics of the region as it emerged from its peripheral location to comprising major ports within the Roman maritime network and to stand out of the heart of the commercial route ways to and from Constantinople, as well as being part of the emergent networks of the western maritime states at the end of the period, such as Venice.
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Lemaigre, Demesnil Nicole. "L'architecture religieuse rupestre en Cappadoce jusqu'au milieu du IXème siècle." Paris 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA010622.
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Située au centre de l'actuelle Turquie, la Cappadoce est particulièrement riche en vestiges archéologiques de l'époque byzantine (Vème-XIIIème siècles). Alors que les monuments étudiés restent encore aujourd'hui les églises médiévales, notre travail a porté sur l'exploration des formes architecturales et des décors architectoniques et sculptés des établissements rupestres antérieurs au Xème siècle. Nos recherches sur le terrain nous ont permis de constituer un corpus de 50 monuments - églises et leurs salles annexes, ensembles funéraires et monastères - échelonnés entre le Vème et le IXème siècle. Nous avons opté pour une présentation géographique autour de sept sites ou sont regroupées les installations rupestres, de la région d'Avanos au nord jusqu'à la vallée de Soganli au sud, excluant volontairement la Cappadoce occidentale (région du Hasan Dagi). L'analyse de cette documentation, en partie inédite, nous a permis de dégager les principales caractéristiques d'une architecture rupestre riche en références au vocabulaire de l'architecture construite, que ce soit celle de la région même ou celle d'un espace géographique plus large, celui des provinces orientales de l'empire. À travers la question de la circulation des modèles et des artisans a été abordée l'étude des moyens techniques et économiques des commanditaires. Notre analyse a apporté aussi des éléments nouveaux pour l'établissement d'une chronologie des églises et pour l'identification de la fonction des monuments traces de communautés rurales qui vécurent au haut moyen-âge dans l'aire rupestre de la Cappadoce, ces ensembles religieux éclairent ainsi certains aspects de la culture matérielle et de la vie spirituelle d'une province byzantine.
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Peppa, Aikaterini. "La ville de Philippes de la période protobyzantine jusqu'au début de la période mésobyzantine : la contribution des données archéologiques de son théâtre après sa destruction." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 1, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022PA01H140.
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Cette étude analyse l’évolution de l’habitat de Philippes à partir de la fin de l’Antiquité tardive jusqu’au début de la période médiobyzantine (VIe – IXe siècles). Elle se focalise sur la culture matérielle byzantine et plus spécifiquement sur la céramique, les modelés de réseaux d’habitats et les structures économiques de la région. Trois niveaux d’analyse sont proposés pour expliquer les raisons pour lesquels la ville voit son rang s’abaisser. D’abord, l’étude du matériel céramique, qui constitue une des rares sources d’information sur cette période, approfondit sensiblement la compréhension des réalités économiques et sociales, dont on possède qu’une vision partielle. Ensuite, l’accent est mis sur l’intérieur de la ville. La synthèse des données archéologiques, qui datent du VIe au IXe siècle, amène à porter un nouveau regard sur le caractère des installations au sein du tissu urbain. Enfin, le corpus topographique de la région concernée, située entre les fleuves Strymon et Nestos, permettent de mettre en perspective les phénomènes observés à Philippes avec la transformation des habitats voisinsThis study examines the transformation of the city of Philippi during the period which extends from the end of Late Antiquity until the beginning of the Middle Byzantine period (6th – 9th c.). It focuses on the Byzantine material culture, especially pottery, the settlement system patterns and the regional economic structures. Three levels of analysis are proposed to enable the study. Firstly, the analysis of pottery findings, one of the rare sources of information for this period, deepens substantially the understanding of the complex economic and social realities of that time. Secondly, special emphasis is put on the city itself. A synthesis of archaeological data from the Philippi site dated to the end of Late Antiquity provides new insights into the nature of the structures in the urban landscape. Finally, the topographic corpus of the region encompassing the rivers Strymon and Nestos allows for comparisons the phenomena observed in Philippi and those of the neighboring habitats
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Vernet, Apolline. "L'habitat urbain au Proche-Orient, de la fin de la période byzantine aux premiers temps de l'Islam (VIè-s. - VIIIè s.)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01H044.
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Théâtre de la conquête des troupes musulmanes au début du VIIe s., le Proche-Orient (Bilād al-Shām) offre un terrain d’étude solide pour interroger la transition entre l’époque byzantine et l’époque islamique. Les données archéologiques, associées aux recherches historiques récentes permettent d’évaluer l’impact de la conquête musulmane sur les villes du Proche-Orient. Cette thèse propose donc d’étudier l’habitat urbain comme marqueur privilégié des transformations sociales à l’œuvre entre la fin du VIe s. et le milieu du VIIIe siècle. Le recensement de la documentation des habitats présents dans les villes entre le VIe s. et le VIIIe s. nous permet dans un premier temps de définir les formes d’habitats et leur implantation durant cette période. Ensuite, l’étude archéologique apporte une analyse technique de l’architecture et des installations domestiques, mais permet également au travers de la typologie d’éclairer le polymorphisme de l’habitat urbain. La thèse envisage finalement de comprendre l’habitat urbain comme révélateur des transformations sociales. En effet, l’évolution des modes de consommation et la mutation des activités hébergées dans les exemples du corpus témoignent d’un changement du cadre de vie du citadin entre le VIe s. et le VIIIe s. au Proche-Orient. L’archéologie nous offre donc les indices nécessaires pour déterminer les cadres de vie urbain et domestique à la fin de l’époque byzantine ainsi que les transformations à l’œuvre suite à la conquête musulmane du Proche-Orient. Ainsi, l’analyse des changements de l’habitat urbain nous permet d’entrevoir une nouvelle société après la conquête islamiqueThe Near East, also known as Bilād al-Shām, underwent major transformations between the 6th and 8th centuries, corresponding with the shift from the Byzantine to the Umayyad period. Archaeological data, associated with recent publications in History, allows one to evaluate the impact that the Islamic conquest had on the urban settlements of the Near East. This thesis offers to analyse urban dwellings as a marker for social transformations between the 6th and 8th centuries. The first part of the thesis gathers archaeological data pertaining to urban transformations and to households in Near East between 6th and 8th c. that allows us to define the particulars of urban dwellings during the period in question. The second part gives a technical analyse of architecture and domestic structures, in addition, the typology highlights different sorts of dwellings standing in urban contexts. The third step of this study aims to underline how urban dwellings can highlight transformations in living-habits. Indeed, the evolution of consumption practices and the variation of activities within dwellings reveal a profound change in habitation strategies among cities between the 6th and the 8th centuries. During a period where there is little textual data that concerns housing, this thesis shows how archaeological data can give us access to the transformations of everyday life from the end of the Byzantine period to the Islamic period. It also gives us new evidence about how urban society transformed after Islamic conquest in the Near East
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Lecat, Zénaïde. "Recherches sur les fortifications des Hautes Steppes (Tunisie) à l'époque byzantine." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040234.
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Les Hautes Steppes comportent un grand nombre de fortifications dont beaucoup ont été attribuées à l’époque byzantine. Parmi elles, de grandes forteresses ont livré des dédicaces renseignant sur leur statut officiel, mais, on rencontre également de très nombreux « fortins ». Devant ce corpus composé de constructions aux caractéristiques très variées, la sériation, selon des critères architecturaux notamment, suivie de la recherche de corrélations entre les séries, apparaissait comme la méthode la plus efficace pour arriver à des résultats probants. Seul a ensuite été poursuivi l’examen des séries pouvant raisonnablement être étudiées dans le contexte byzantin. La distribution géographique de chacune d’entre elle a été examinée et des analyses spatiales ont été réalisées grâce à l’outil SIG. Ce travail a permis la mise en évidence de plusieurs réseaux dont les schémas d’implantation évoluent avec le temps. Il semblerait qu’on soit passé de la forteresse symbole d’un pouvoir qui se voulait fort, s’appuyant sur des lignes de défense naturelles, à des réseaux de surveillance peut-être plus adaptés à la particularité des ennemis des Byzantins, les Maures, puis les Arabes, réputés très mobiles et, de ce fait, difficiles à contrôler. La nouvelle approche des réseaux qui est proposée met en lumière une vision un peu moins négative de l’Afrique byzantine. Il y avait certes de nombreux problèmes de sécurité, mais les représentants du pouvoir byzantin n’ont peut-être pas abandonné l’Afrique à son sort sans tenter d’apporter des solutionsTunisian High Steppes include a great number of fortifications. For many of them, a date in the Byzantine period was proposed. On few large ones, inscriptions indicating official status were found, but there are also numerous under-studied little « fortlets ». These constructions are quite different. A serial handling, based on architectural standards specifically, has been carried out. Only the series which can reasonably be attributed to the byzantine period have been examined in greater detail. Their geographical distribution has been studied and spatial analysis have been done, using a Geographical Information System (GIS). Thanks to this work, it is possible to identify successive networks. Their settlement plans seem to have changed, from the time when the fortress was considered as a power symbol and installed near natural lines of defense. It evolved to probably more adapted surveillance networks. Indeed, the Byzantine’s enemies were Moorish tribes and Arabs, known to be mobile people and considered hard to control. This new approach of fortifications networks highlights a less negative vision of Byzantine Africa. There were certainly great security problems, but Byzantine representatives doesn’t seem to have let Africans to their own without trying to bring solutions
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Garreau, Forrest Sophie. "Les églises protobyzantines des Phénicie Maritime et Libanaise (IVe – VIIIe siècle) : architecture et aménagements extérieurs et intérieurs pour la liturgie." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040195.
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Le sujet portant sur « Les églises protobyzantines des Phénicie Maritime et Libanaise (IVe – VIIIe siècle), construction et aménagements intérieurs ou liturgiques », ouvre sur la question de l’évolution des communautés chrétiennes des premiers siècles de notre ère dans cette vaste région, par certains points homogène, que représentaient les deux provinces de Phénicie. L’étude typologique des éléments constituant l’architecture et des aménagements intérieurs propres aux déroulements liturgiques qui s’y déroulaient a permis de faire ressortir des zones d’influences et des échanges dans ces domaines, dans l’Empire byzantin d’Orient, entre les deux provinces de Phénicie et les provinces limitrophes de Syrie, de Palestine et d’ArabieThe subject intitulated “The protobyzantines Churches in Maritime and Libanese Phenicia (4th – 8th century), construction and liturgical organisation inside and outside” open on the evolution of christians communities to the first centuries in this huge area, represented with the both provinces with homogeneous characteristics. The typologic analysis of the differents elements attached to the architecture and specificly to the liturgical organisation aimed to bring the areas of influence and exchange out, into the Byzantine Empire in Near East, between the both provinces of Phenicia and the provinces around as Syria, Palestine and Arabia
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LESK, ALEXANDRA L. "A DIACHRONIC EXAMINATION OF THE ERECHTHEION AND ITS RECEPTION." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1108170608.
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Planchette, Yoanna. "La chapelle cimétériale de Bačkovo (Bulgarie) et la question des églises sépulcrales dans le monde byzantin médiéval." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100174.
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Cette thèse porte sur la chapelle cimétériale du monastère de Bačkovo (Bulgarie), étudiée dans le contexte des églises sépulcrales du monde byzantin médiéval. Parmi les rares monuments de ce type architectural, cette chapelle se singularise notamment par son décor peint datant de l’époque médiobyzantine. Conservant certains thèmes iconographiques à caractère exceptionnel, son importance résulte également de la cohérence parfaite entre le décor, la fonction de l’édifice et le rite célébré. À la lumière des données d’une sélection de typika byzantins, complétées par des sources liturgiques, nous nous attachons, d’une part, à clarifier le contexte de fondation de la chapelle cimétériale, et, d’autre part, à réévaluer sa place unique dans la vie monastique d’antan. Notre investigation vise aussi à réexaminer la classification architecturale à laquelle le monument fut longtemps rattaché, celle des « églises sépulcrales bulgares », avancée par André Grabar. De plus, nous proposons une analyse iconographique détaillée de l’intégralité de son décor peint. Une attention particulière est portée aux représentations à forte connotation eschatologique, envisagées par le biais des spécificités fonctionnelles de l’édifice, liées à la célébration d’offices funèbres et commémoratifs. En outre, nous développons une analyse comparative avec les programmes iconographiques des principaux monuments sépulcraux médio- et tardodyzantins. L’apport de cette thèse consiste ainsi en la recontextualisation de la chapelle cimétériale bačkovienne, sur les plans à la fois architectural, iconographique et liturgiqueThe subject of this thesis is the cemetery chapel of the Bačkovo monastery considered in the context of the sepulchral buildings of the Byzantine medieval world. Among the rare monuments of this architectural type, it stands out by its decoration dating from the middle byzantine period. Conserving some exceptional iconographic topics, its importance ensues also from the perfect coherence between decoration, function and ritual. With reference to a selection of byzantine typika, completed by liturgical sources, I try to clarify the context of foundation of the Bačkovo cemetery chapel and to reassess its place in the monastic life of yesteryear. The purpose of this investigation is also to reconsider the architectural classification of this building which has been refered to as the “églises sépulcrales bulgares” for a long time as mentioned by André Grabar. Furthermore I offer a detailed iconographic study of its entire fresco programme focusing especially on the representations with strong eschatological connotation, examined in the light of the functional particularities of the edifice, related to the celebration of funeral and commemoration services. In addition I give a comparative analysis of the monument following the iconographic programmes of the most significant sepulchral monuments from the middle and late byzantine period. The contribution of this thesis thus consists in the recontextualization of the Bačkovo cemetery chapel in terms of architecture, iconography and liturgy
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Baraze, Muhmmad. "Recherches sur les tombes à fosse dans la Syrie antique entre le Ier et le VIlle siècle après J.-C. : espace, architecture et pratiques funéraires." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BOR30039.
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Cette thèse vise à apporter des connaissances sur le monde des morts dans les tombes à fosse dans la Syrie antique entre le Ier et le VIIIe siècle après J.-C. La cadre géographique concerné englobe la région de l’Orient comprise entre l’Anatolie, la Mésopotamie, l’Arabie, l’Égypte et la Méditerranée. Ce travail cherche à caractériser les lieux d’implantation des espaces funéraires des tombes à fosse, à établir un classement typologique et chronologique de l’architecture funéraire de ce type de tombes et à déterminer les gestes funéraires pratiqués : inhumation ou incinération, dépôt individuel ou pluriel, collectif ou multiple, primaire ou secondaire. Il s’agit aussi d’illustrer l’orientation et la position originelle des corps placés dans les sépultures : disposition du tronc, de la tête, des membres supérieurs et inférieurs. Ce travail vise à observer la localisation des objets déposés dans les sépultures par rapport aux défunts et d’analyser l’ordre dans lequel ils ont été déposés. Au-delà de ces analyses archéologiques et taphonomiques, l’objectif est de savoir s’il existe une évolution ou une variation des pratiques funéraires, selon les zones géographiques ou une période particulière. Il s’agit aussi de vérifier si l’ensemble de la Syrie appartenait à la culture gréco-romaine dans le domaine des pratiques funéraires ou au contraire si la région ou certaines zones géographiques de Syrie, étaient à l’écart de cette cultureThis thesis aims to provide knowledge of the world of the dead in pit graves in antique Syria between the 1st and the 8th century AD. The area under consideration includes the region of the Orient located between Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. This work tries to characterize the location of pit graves, to establish a typological and chronological classification of the funeral architecture of this type of grave and to determine the funeral rites practiced: inhumation or cremation, individual or group, collective or multiple, primary or secondary burial. It is also a question of illustrating the alignment and the positioning of the bodies placed in the graves: the position of the trunk, the head, the lower and upper limbs. This work furthermore attempts to analyze the location of grave objects and the order in which they were deposited. Beyond these archaeological and taphonomic analyses, the objective is to determine whether there is an evolution or a variation in the funeral practices between different geographical zones or during a particular period. It is also a question of verifying whether the whole of Syria belonged to the Greco-Roman culture in the field of the funeral practices or if, on the contrary, the entire region or only certain geographical zones of Syria, remained apart from this culture
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Láskarīs, Nikólaos G. "Monuments funéraires paléochrétiens (et byzantins) de la Grèce." Paris 1, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA010639.
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La topographie funéraire présente l'introduction des inhumations dans les églises qui sont divisées en quatre catégories, cimetériales, paléochrétiennes, désaffectées et mésobyzantines. La pénétration des tombes dans la ville constitue un autre sujet important. De l'analyse des données on présente la disposition de la tombe et du défunt selon les coutumes chrétiennes. On trouve les formes des tombes déjà connues et particulièrement celle en berceau. De l'étude du mobilier trouvé, lampes, vases, monnaies etc. Il résulte que les coutumes anciennes persistent mais à une échelle réduite. L'étude des martyria concerne un petit nombre de martyria authentiques, triconques, tétraconques et d'autres formes. On étudie aussi la problématique de la forme et de la fonction dans d'autres bâtiments des mêmes formes. On présente d'autres cas dont l'identification est prématurée ou fausse. L'étude de la basilique de St Démétrius de Thessalonique a un intérêt particulier par la pluralité des éléments et les considérations qui dépassent les faits archéologiques. La catacombe de Melo et le cimetière rocheux de Methoni constituent des exemples implantes sur les côtes méditerranéennes avec toutes les caractéristiques de ceux de Rome et de la Sicile. Le monument de Thèbes présente beaucoup de problèmes d'identification et le cimetière de Samos offre une disposition particulière. Les représentations de la peinture sont de styles variés d'une réminiscence latine et d'une thématologie païenne, thèmes bibliques d'un style élégant et d'une datation avancée. . .
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Ari, Meltem. "The Inscribed-cross Churches In Goreme." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605118/index.pdf.
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This thesis reviews the general characteristics of rock-cut churches with an inscribed-cross plan in Göreme. These churches, namely Chapel 17, St. Barbara, Ç
arikli, Karanlik, Elmali, Chapel 25, Chapel 32, Kiliç
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, date from the ninth to the eleventh century of the Middle Byzantine period. Firstly, this study aims to identify the general features of these churches. It also attempts to examine their liturgical planning. While doing so, architectural developments in the insribed-cross churches in Byzantine Istanbul will also be used for comparison, in order to highlight provincial characteristics in the inscribed-cross churches in Gö
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Solat, Siamak. "Novel fault-tolerant, self-configurable, scalable, secure, decentralized, and high-performance distributed database replication architecture using innovative sharding to enable the use of BFT consensus mechanisms in very large-scale networks." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris Cité, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023UNIP7025.
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Cette thèse de doctorat se compose de 6 chapitres. Dans le premier chapitre, en guise d'introduction, nous donnons un aperçu des objectifs généraux et des motivations des réseaux décentralisés et permissionless, ainsi que des obstacles auxquels ils sont confrontés. Dans l'introduction, nous évoquons également la solution irrationnelle et illogique, connue sous le nom de « blockchain permissioned », qui a été proposée pour améliorer les performances des réseaux similaires à Bitcoin. Cette question a été détaillée au chapitre 5. Dans le chapitre 2, nous rendons clairs et intelligibles les systèmes que l'idée proposée, « Parallel Committees », est basée sur de tels réseaux. Nous détaillons les fonctionnalités indispensables et les défis essentiels des systèmes de réplication. Ensuite, dans le chapitre 3, nous discutons des limitations de scalabilité et du faible débit des systèmes de réplication qui utilisent des mécanismes de consensus pour traiter les transactions et comment ces problèmes peuvent être améliorés en utilisant des techniques de sharding. Nous décrivons les défis les plus importants dans le sharding des systèmes de réplication distribuée, une approche qui a déjà été mise en œuvre dans plusieurs systèmes de réplication basés sur la blockchain et, bien qu'elle ait montré un potentiel significatif pour améliorer les performances et la scalabilité, les techniques de sharding actuelles ont encore des limitations de scalabilité et des défis de sécurité. Nous expliquons pourquoi la plupart des protocoles de sharding actuels utilisent une approche d'allocation aléatoire pour distribuer les nœuds entre les shards pour des raisons de sécurité. Nous décrivons également comment traiter une transaction dans un système de réplication partitionné basé sur les protocoles de sharding actuels. Nous expliquons comment un « shared-ledger » partagé sur les shards impose des limitations de scalabilité et des défis de sécurité au réseau, et expliquons pourquoi les transactions « cross-shards » ou « inter-shards » sont indésirables et plus coûteuses en raison des problèmes qu'elles causent, y compris « atomicity failure » et les défis de « state transition », ainsi qu'une passe en revue des solutions proposées. Nous passons également en revue certains des travaux récents les plus remarquables qui utilisent des techniques de sharding pour les systèmes de réplication. Cette partie de l'ouvrage a été publiée sous la forme d'un chapitre de livre (peer-reviewed) in « Building Cybersecurity Applications with Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts » (Springer, 2023). Dans le chapitre 4, nous proposons une nouvelle technique de sharding, « Parallel Committees », prenant en charge à la fois le « processing-sharding » et le « storage/state sharding », pour améliorer la scalabilité et les performances des systèmes de réplication distribués qui utilisent des mécanismes de consensus pour traiter les demandes des clients (client requests). Nous introduisons une approche innovante et originale pour répartir les nœuds entre les shards à l'aide d'un processus de génération de clé publique qui atténue simultanément l'attaque Sybil et sert de mécanisme de preuve de travail (proof-of-work). Notre approche réduit efficacement les transactions « inter-shards » indésirables, qui sont plus complexes et coûteuses à traiter que les transactions « intra-shards ». L'idée proposée a été publiée dans la conférence IEEE BCCA 2023. Nous expliquons ensuite pourquoi nous n'utilisons pas la structure de la blockchain dans l'idée proposée, un sujet abordé en détail au chapitre 5. Cette explication et clarification a été publiée dans le Journal of Software (JSW), Volume 16, Number 3, May 2021. Et dans le dernier chapitre de cette thèse, le chapitre 6, nous résumons les points importants et les conclusions de cette rechercheThis PhD thesis consists of 6 Chapters. In the first Chapter, as an introduction, we provide an overview of the general goals and motives of decentralized and permissionless networks, as well as the obstacles they face. In the introduction, we also refer to the irrational and illogical solution, known as "permissioned blockchain" that has been proposed to improve the performance of networks similar to Bitcoin. This matter has been detailed in Chapter 5. In Chapter 2, we make clear and intelligible the systems that the proposed idea, Parallel Committees, is based on such networks. We detail the indispensable features and essential challenges in replication systems. Then in Chapter 3, we discuss in detail the low performance and scalability limitations of replication systems that use consensus mechanisms to process transactions, and how these issues can be improved using the sharding technique. We describe the most important challenges in the sharding of distributed replication systems, an approach that has already been implemented in several blockchain-based replication systems and although it has shown remarkable potential to improve performance and scalability, yet current sharding techniques have several significant scalability and security issues. We explain why most current sharding protocols use a random assignment approach for allocating and distributing nodes between shards due to security reasons. We also detail how a transaction is processed in a sharded replication system, based on current sharding protocols. We describe how a shared-ledger across shards imposes additional scalability limitations and security issues on the network and explain why cross-shard or inter-shard transactions are undesirable and more costly, due to the problems they cause, including atomicity failure and state transition challenges, along with a review of proposed solutions. We also review some of the most considerable recent works that utilize sharding techniques for replication systems. This part of the work has been published as a peer-reviewed book chapter in "Building Cybersecurity Applications with Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts" (Springer, 2023). In Chapter 4, we propose a novel sharding technique, Parallel Committees, supporting both processing and storage/state sharding, to improve the scalability and performance of distributed replication systems that use a consensus to process clients' requests. We introduce an innovative and novel approach of distributing nodes between shards, using a public key generation process that simultaneously mitigates Sybil attack and serves as a proof-of-work mechanism. Our approach effectively reduces undesirable cross-shard transactions that are more complex and costly to process than intra-shard transactions. The proposed idea has been published as peer-reviewed conference proceedings in the IEEE BCCA 2023. We then explain why we do not make use of a blockchain structure in the proposed idea, an issue that is discussed in great detail in Chapter 5. This clarification has been published in the Journal of Software (JSW), Volume 16, Number 3, May 2021. And, in the final Chapter of this thesis, Chapter 6, we summarize the important points and conclusions of this research
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Alon, Lior. "Entre Occident et Orient : la cathédrale Saint-Front de Périgueux et les églises à file de coupoles en Aquitaine, étude comparée avec les églises à coupoles byzantines de Chypre." Poitiers, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003POIT5007.
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Ce travail aborde la question de l'origine de l'architecture des églises à file de coupoles du Sud-Ouest aquitain par une comparaison avec celles de Chypre. Le premier volume est divisé en six chapitres. Le premier propose une étude de l'historiographie de la question de Saint-Front. Le second étudie l'église Saint-Front. Le troisième est consacré au autres églises sur croix grecque comme Saint-Marc de Venise, les Saints-Apôtres de Constantinople et Saint-Jean d'Ephèse, et envisage le rapports entre ces monuments et Saint-Front. Le quatrième chapitre présente une synthèse architecturale des autres églises à coupoles d'Aquitaine, tandis que le cinquième traite celles de Chypre. Le dernier chapitre propose une comparaison entre les deux groupes d'églises. Enfin vient la conclusion. Dans le second volume, on trouve un catalogue des principales églises à coupoles en Aquitaine et à Chypre. A la fin, on indique la bibliographie. Le troisième volume présente les illustrations.
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Orbay, İffet. "Istanbul viewed : the representation of the city in Ottoman maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8630.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-395).
Starting from the premise that maps are essentially about visualizing space, this dissertation examines what the Ottoman maps of Istanbul reveal about the city's perception, as it evolved in connection to urban development after the conquest. The maps that form the subject of this study appear as illustrations in three manuscript books. The Istanbul maps contained in Mecmu'-i Menazil (1537-8) and HiinernAme (1584) respectively mark the beginning and the accomplishment of the city's architectural elaboration. The other twenty maps, featuring in manuscript copies of Kitab-i Bahriye (1520s), roughly span the period between 1550 and 1700. The variants of a design fixed around 1570 offer an image that fulfills its topographic elaboration in the late-seventeenth century. While the making of this map's design relates to Istanbul's sixteenth century urban development, its topographical elaboration reflects a new perception of the city. These picture-maps, produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, form a unique group of documents as the only known Ottoman pictorial representations showing the city as a whole. As revealed by the context of the books containing them, their making relates both to Ottoman Empire's territorial expansion and to the appropriation of Constantinople as its new capital. Their cartographic language combines, in different manners, the familiar conventions of Islamic miniature painting with artistic forms encountered and assimilated during territorial expansion, particularly in contact with Venice.
(cont.) Especially the making of the Istanbul maps in Kitfb-i Bahriye copies illustrates the crucial role of the Mediterranean seafaring culture, its navigation manuals, nautical charts and island books. These images of Istanbul can be related to the development of the urban landscape and its symbolic function. Their study as cartographic representations pays attention to both accuracy and emphasis in their topographic contents. Supported by contemporary European visual sources and travel accounts as well as Ottoman topographic and poetic descriptions of Istanbul, the viewing directions, the depictions of buildings, and the overall cartographic composition in these maps are interpreted as features shaping a symbolic landscape that developed from an ideal vision to an actual garden-like urban environment, structured by land, water, and architecture.
by İffet Orbay.
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Chok, Anna. "Khirbet el-Libneh : Études architecturale et archéologique des vestiges protobyzantins (Tartous - Syrie)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3031.
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Les premiers indices archéologiques de Khirbet el-Libneh ont été signalés en 1997 dans la zone industrielle de Tartous (sur la côte syrienne). Depuis, neuf campagnes de fouilles réalisées sous la direction de la D.G.A.M., entre 1998 et 2009, ont permis la découverte partielle d'un ensemble protobyzantin. Les vestiges dispersés sur un terrain de 11400 m² se composent essentiellement d'une grande salle basilicale ornée d'une mosaïque géométrique, d'un complexe agricole (des pressoirs à huile, de petits fours à pain et un moulin) et une citerne. Parmi les objets mis au jour les plus intéressants, un sceau porte l'empreint d'une image religieuse. De prochaines campagnes de fouilles seront nécessaires pour compléter le contenu de cet ensemble. En attendant, les données disponibles représentent les sources d'informations pour cette recherche doctoraleThe first archaeological evidences for the complex of Khirbet el-Libneh were exposed in 1997 in the industrial zone of Tartous (on the Syrian coast). Indeed, nine excavations carried out under the direction of the DGAM between 1998 and 2009, led to the partial discovery of an early Byzantine settlement. The remains, scattered over an area of 11400 m², consist mainly of a large basilica decorated with geometric mosaics, an agricultural complex (oil press, bread ovens and a mil) and a cistern. One of the most iteresting discoveries is a seal that have a mark of a religious icon.Further surveys will be needed before we can portray a full picture of the complex and its contents. In the, meantime, the available data serve as the souce material of this PhD thesis
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Correia, Miguel. "Intrusion Tolerance based on Architectural Hybridization." Doctoral thesis, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/14292.
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Security in distributed computing systems is usually based on the idea of prevention. The usual approach consists in trying to design perfect systems, with no vulnerabilities to be exploited by potential attackers. Reality shows that this is impossible and that systems live in a permanent cycle: vulnerability discovered systems attacked patch published some systems patched new vulnerability discovered etc. Fault-tolerance or, more generically, dependability, takes a different approach. This discipline also tries to build systems as reliable as possible. However, components are assumed to fail, and systems that do not fail have to be built using fallible components. Although the two approaches seem almost opposite, attacks and intrusions can be considered to be faults. The problem of tolerance of these kinds of faults has been receiving much attention in recent years, and gained a new momentum under the designation of intrusion tolerance. This thesis appears in the context of research on intrusion tolerance in distributed systems. One of the problems with this approach, studied in the thesis, is the design of systems that are simultaneously efficient and secure, given the difficulty of making assumptions about the failure modes caused by the attacker. The thesis is based on an architectural-hybrid fault model. This model assumes that most of the system can fail arbitrarily, even maliciously, with the exception of a few components that are by construction secure and real-time. The component studied in depth in the thesis is called Trusted Timely Computing Base (TTCB). The TTCB is a component with novel characteristics. In the first place, it is a distributed subsystem with its own secure network. Secondly, it is real-time, i.e., a synchronous subsystem capable of timely behavior. Thirdly, it can be implemented using only COTS components. The first part of the thesis presents the TTCB model, its implementation based on COTS components and its services functionality. Once the TTCB introduced, the thesis describes the design of several intrusiontolerant middleware components with the objective of validating the proposed ap- proach. Note that the TTCB is used architecturally as a runtime support component, not as a layer of the usual stack of protocols. This makes the architecture very versatile since the TTCB can be used indiscriminately by all or just some of the system layers. Then, the thesis presents a first protocol based on the hybrid fault model, a reliable multicast protocol. This protocol is efficient and tolerates any number of malicious processes, contrary to similar protocols in the literature that tolerate less than one third. A classical problem in distributed systems consensus is used to show another way of using the TTCB to support intrusion-tolerant protocols. The protocol is efficient in terms of message and time complexities. It also shows how the FLP impossibility result relates to systems based on the TTCB. Group communication is an important paradigm for the implementation of faulttolerant distributed systems. The final part of the thesis presents an intrusion-tolerant group communication system. The system includes a membership service and an atomic multicast primitive. This system has an arguably superior performance in relation to similar systems in the literature.
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Roman, Robert. "Etude architecturale comparative de sept navires de commerce gréco-romains et byzantins." Aix-Marseille 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/1997AIX10100.
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Entre le iveme siecle avant j. -c. Et le xieme siecle apres j. -c. , la conception architecturale des navires a subi des changements notables. Ces changements ont deja ete abordes dans le cadre d'autres etudes sur les methodes et techniques de construction. Mais jamais, a notre connaissance, les formes de carene et l'evaluation de leurs qualites nautiques n'ont fait l'objet d'une approche ponctuelleet chronologique. Pour repondre a une problematique precise, il nous a paru interessant de comparer sept epaves greco-romaines et byzantines, connues et relativement bien conservees, selectionnees selon des criteres bien precis, le but est de tenter de nous apporter le temoignage de quinze siecles d'architecture navale.
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Sharp, Roger Stephen. "The outside image : a comparative study of external architectural display on Middle Byzantine structures on the Black Sea littoral." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3013/.
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This study is concerned with the manner in which Byzantium manifested itself through the exterior of its buildings. The focus is the Black Sea from the ninth century to the eleventh. Three cities are examined. Each had imperial attention: Amastris for imperial defences; Mesembria, a border city and the meeting place for diplomats: Cherson, a strategic outpost and focal point of Byzantine proselytising. There were two forms of external display; one, surface ornament and surface modelling, the other through the arrangement of masses and forms. A more nuanced division can be discerned linked with issues of purpose and audience. The impulse to display the exterior can be traced to building practice at imperial level in the capital in the early ninth century. Surface ornament continued to be linked with the display of secular authority. Display through structure was developed in Cherson and the north Black Sea region to project the presence of Orthodoxy and was closely associated with conversion activity. By the end of the tenth century, through that external presentation, the form of the church building had itself become symbolic. External display can be seen as a vehicle for the expression of regional forms and evidence for the tenacity of local building “dialects”.
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Rebengiuc, Tudor. "The Nature of Language in Orthodox Church Architecture: A Hermeneutical Approach." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282169753.
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Michel, Vincent. "Les salles annexes des églises byzantines en Palestine, entre le IVe et le VIIIe siècle." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040060.
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Le travail de recherche porte sur les salles annexes des églises en Palestine à l'époque byzantine, entre le IVe et le VIIIe siècle. Une église ne peut se dresser comme un édifice isolé, sans salles annexes et s'insère nécessairement comme salle principale d'un ensemble de constructions répondant à une diversité de besoins non réductibles aux pratiques cultuelles. Pour identifierleur emplacement, en comprendre les raisons, et déterminer leurs fonctions, les salles annexes ont fait l'objet dans un premier temps d'une analyse typologique selon : leur emplacement tant à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur de l'édifice principal ; le type de chevet ; le plan de l'église (plan basilical, plan centré, chapelle monastique). En parallèle, l'étude approfondie de la liturgie a permis une interprétation plus solide de certaines salles, en particulier la salle du diakonikon, dont nous avons pu mesure l'importance tant dans le déroulement de la liturgie que dans la vie ecclésiale. Enfin, la confrontation des vestiges et les sources textuelles permet d'affiner l'étude des salles annexes et aboutit à certaines certitudes quant à leur répartition, leur emplacement et leur usage, non pas uniquement sur les grands sites de pèlerinages ou les basiliques épiscopales mais également sur les églises paroissiales ou privées et les chapelles conventuellesThis research concerns the annexes rooms of the byzantine churches in Palestine, between 4th and the 8th century. As a matter of fact, a church is not erected as an isolated building and, as a main room, is obviously part of a whole of constructions which all answer to a variety of needs not only reducible to religious practises. In order to identify their location, understand the reasons of these locations and to determine their function, the annexes rooms have been first subjected to a typological study in accordance with: their location, both inside and outside the main edifice; the type of chevet ; the church plan (basilical plan, central plan, monastic chapel). At the same time, the detailed study of liturgy allows a stronger interpretation of certain rooms, in particular regarding the diakonikon for which we have been able to measure the importance both during the course of liturgy and for the ecclesiastic life. Finally, the confrontation between the vestiges and the textual sources permits to refine the study of the annexes rooms and attempts to certain certitudes regarding their repartition, their location and their use, not only concerning the main pilgrimage sites or Episcopal basilica, but also concerning parish churches, private churches and conventual chapels
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Berk, Bensu. "The Byzantine Church of Santa Croce in Ravenna (Italy): Experimental Investigation on Historic Materials and Monitoring of Rising Damp." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022.
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Rising damp is an almost inevitable and hazardous phenomenon for historic buildings. This phenomenon, which already exists in buildings (to a lesser or greater extent), accelerates when faced with disasters that dramatically increase the water content within the building. While researchers are developing new monitoring methods to examine the effects of rising damp on structures effectively, organizations are designing new risk management plans to minimize the impact of disasters to which cultural heritages are exposed. The case study presented in this thesis includes studies carried out in the Byzantine church of Santa Croce in Ravenna, Italy, which was exposed to rising moisture from flooding due to soil submersion. By analyzing the samples collected from the church, the extent of the decay was determined. Moreover, a new method ensured that the monitoring of moisture in the church was reliable. The data obtained can be used to support the multi-disciplinary studies carried out in the church of Santa Croce, which was selected as part of the EU Horizon 2020 SHELTER project.
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Beaudry, Nicolas. "La basilique de Ras el Bassit : une église paléochrétienne sur la côte de Syrie du nord." Paris 1, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA010580.
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Cette thèse rapporte les résultats de la fouille d'une église paléochrétienne à Ras el Bassit, sur la côte de Syrie du Nord. L'église est pourvue d'un collatéral tournant qui était couvert d'une tribune en U. Le chevet, triparti, est inscrit dans un plan rectangulaire ; les pièces qui flanquent l'abside sont symétriques, ouvrant sur les collatéraux et sur l'abside. L'annexe sud de l'abside était probablement un martyrion,. L'annexe nord a livré une table presque complète avec son reliquaire (fin VIe, déb. VIIe s. ). Malgré un pôle martyrial méridional, l'église possède des caractères rares ou inconnus en Antiochène, mais communs en Apamène. Le dépôt des reliques sous un autel ne connaît pas de parallèle en Syrie du Nord, mais le corpus, largement dominé par les églises de village du Massif Calcaire, s'appauvrit dans la deuxième moitié du VIe siècle alors que la pratique se répand dans d'autres provinces levantines. L'église a été détruite par un séisme après 617.
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Richardson, Joan Olivia. "The Byzantine element in the architecture and architectural sculpture of Venice 1063-1140." 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/23637969.html.
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Rodrigues, Rodrigo, and Barbara Liskov. "Rosebud: A Scalable Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant Storage Architecture." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30440.
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This paper presents Rosebud, a new Byzantine faulttolerantstorage architecture designed to be highly scalableand deployable in the wide-area. To support massiveamounts of data, we need to partition the data among thenodes. To support long-lived operation, we need to allowthe set of nodes in the system to change. To our knowledge,we are the first to present a complete design and arunning implementation of Byzantine-fault-tolerant storagealgorithms for a large scale, dynamic membership.We deployed Rosebud in a wide area testbed and ran experimentsto evaluate its performance, and our experimentsshow that it performs well. We show that our storage algorithmsperform equivalently to highly optimized replicationalgorithms in the wide-area. We also show that performancedegradation is minor when the system reconfigures.
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Wallace, Sue-Anne. "Byzantine Cappadocia : the planning and function of its ecclesiastical structures." Phd thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110011.
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In this thesis the rock-cut monuments of Byzantine Cappadocia on the central Anatolian
plateau of modem-day Turkey are considered from a new perspective and within a new
structure. Studies which have investigated the churches of Cappadocia have not hitherto
been framed around theoretical considerations, largely because of the absence of written
sources which relate directly to the region. However, there is a body of documentary
evidence contemporary with the majority of the Cappadocian churches which can be
profitably analyzed to provide a framework within which the architectural disposition
and liturgical planning of churches are considered.
The documentary evidence of liturgical practices drawn from liturgical commentaries,
hagiographic texts, typika and episcopal lists, together with all available evidence of
patronage included in epigraphic sources in the churches is considered and analyzed.
Discussion proceeds from documentary to archaeological evidence, focussing on the
critical elements, the altar and the apse screen, the use of which is described in the
literary evidence. In this synthetic approach, particular architectural dispositions and
liturgical arrangements are shown to cluster in geographical patterns, the reason for
which is demonstrated through an examination of other structures including refectories
and funerary chambers.
Scholars have undertaken systematic exploration in Cappadocia from the beginning of
this century but the focus of their work has been primarily directed toward the
decoration of the churches. Much of the material concerning liturgical planning has not
been published and has been documented in this thesis for the first time based on
fieldwork surveys undertaken between 1986 and 1988. The data of this fieldwork are
collated in the appendix where one hundred and twenty-seven monuments are recorded
including thirty-five hitherto unpublished and forty previously incompletely-published
churches. A glossary in the appendix defines the relevant architectural terminology.
More than six hundred rock-cut structures are believed to be located in Cappadocia,
their highest concentration in Goreme. Although the total picture in Cappadocia cannot
be satisfactorily reconstructed as losses have been considerable and are continuing,
there is no reason to assume that the material which is extant is not representative of the
situation which once existed in the region. That so many monuments are located within
a confined area may suggest it was easier to carve a new church out of the tufaceous
rock than to adapt an existing one to recent liturgical requirements. However,
consideration of the liturgical furnishings and the question of how the architectural
disposition and liturgical planning relate to specific ecclesiastical practices provide
evidence that many of the churches had purposes other than normal liturgical use.v. 1. The text. -- v. 2. The Appendix (3 parts)