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Shedding Light on the Dark Ages: Sketching Potential Trade Relationships in Early Medieval Romania through Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Sheep Remains
2021
Southeast Europe has played an important role in shaping the genetic diversity of sheep due to its proximity to the Danubian route of transport from the Near East into Europe, as well as its possible role as a post-domestication migration network and long tradition of sheep breeding. The history of Romania and, in particular, the historical province of Dobruja, located on the shore of the Black Sea, has been influenced by its geographical position at the intersection between the great powers of the Near East and mainland Europe, with the Middle Ages being an especially animated time in terms of trade, migration, and conflict. In this study, we analyzed the mitochondrial control region of fi…
Donazioni e ricompense:la retorica bizantina al servizio del potere normanno.
2009
Il documento d'archivio simbolo e cifra del potere anche quando questo si declina nella sfera del diritto privato. Una pergamena greca del 1141 attesta la donazione di reliquie sacre in favore dell'Archimandritato di Messina: autori e destinatari, testimoni, formulario e lessico bizantini concorrono a una precisa sceneggiatura del dispositivo politico normanno nell'epoca in cui Ruggero II e il suo ministro Giorgio di Antiochia hanno fatto delle forme mutuate dall'impero bizantino un raffinato strumento di regno. The archive document is the symbol and figure of power even when this is declined in the sphere of private law. A Greek parchment of 1141 attests the donation of sacred relics in fa…
The conquest of Malta by the Normans in 1091 as an example of a Norman landing operation
2017
Sergei Mariev (ed.), Byzantine Perspectives on Neoplatonism. Byzantinisches Archiv, Series Philosophica 1, Boston/Berlin, de Gruyter 2017, 289 p., IS…
2019
The small mammals (insectivores, bats and rodents) from the Holocene site of Vallone Inferno (Scillato, Sicily)
2013
The Vallone Inferno rock-shelter is an archeological site located at 770 m a.s.l. in the Madonie massif in Sicily. This massif is modeled into the Triassic and Oligocene sedimentary rocks of the Imerese Basin. Thearchaeological excavations conducted since 2008 have provided a long prehistoric and historic sequence from the Neolithic to the medieval period. From the four sedimentary complexes identified, only levels 3.4 to 3.1 from complex 3 and 4.2 from complex 4 have yielded small-mammal material. Level 4.2 is poor in remains and as yet without cultural ascription, though it has a radiocarbon age of 9450±50 years BP. Level 3.4 has yielded fragments of ceramic characteristic of the Middle N…
The restoration of a mosaic fragment in Betlehem’s Nativity church
2022
Il frammento di mosaico, raffigurante uno degli angeli della teoria, che si trova sulle pareti della navata centrale all'interno della chiesa della Natività a Betlemme (Palestina), è datato intorno al XII secolo e riflette i canoni artistici dell'età Comnena. Il cattivo stato di conservazione del mosaico aveva portato alla decisione di un intervento di restauro: operazione preliminare di sicurezza, pulizia della superficie musiva, consolidamento profondo, reintegrazione della lacuna e restituzione e protezione estetica The fragment of mosaic, depicting one of the angels of the theory, which is located on the walls of the central nave inside the church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (Palestine…
Icone. Tradizione/Contemporaneità. Le icone post-bizantine della Sicilia nord-occidentale e la loro interpretazione contemporanea
2019
Si tratta del catalogo della mostra allestita presso il Museo Diocesano di Monreale (PA), nella quale si espongono tredici icone antiche di scuola veneto-cretese dell'Eparchia di Piana degli Albanesi e dello stesso museo (16th-17th secolo), messe a confronto con 12 opere create appositamente da artisti contemporanei , dei quali sei siciliani e sei greci This is the catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museo Diocesano in Monreale (PA), in which thirteen ancient icons of the Venetian-Cretan school of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi and the museum itself (16th-17th century) are exhibited, compared with 12 works specially created by contemporary artists, including six Sicilians and six G…
Arte per Theodoùli. Pittori e committenti di icone post-bizantine della Sicilia occidentale
2019
Il saggio approfondisce le generalità di pittori e committenti di alcune icone post-bizantine della Sicilia nord-occidentale, accomunati dalla definizione di theodoùli, cioè servi di Dio The chapter explores the generality of painters and clients of some post-Byzantine icons of north-western Sicily, united by the definition of theodoùli, i.e. servants of God
Bartolomeo di Salvo: Chants of the Byzantine Rite: The Italo-Albanian Tradition in Sicily (Canti Ecclesiastici della Tradizione Italo-Albanese in Sic…
2016
Father Bartolomeo Di Salvo established an extensive collection of transcriptions of the Canti ecclesiastici della tradizione Siculo-Albanese (Ecclesiastical chants of the Italian-Albanian tradition in Sicily) in the 1950s and early 1960s. It was planned that this collection would be published soon after as the fifth volume in the Serie Subsidia of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae (MMB). A plan that in 2016, after about 50 years from the conception of the original editorial project has finally been realized with this publication. The collection of Father Bartolomeo Di Salvo consist of 259 pages, containing transcriptions of 484 items: whole chants, variants and analyses of formulaic schemes …
Traces of ison and biphonies in Byzantine chant of Sicilian Arbëresh
2012
After an introduction on the relevance of the written musical source in the Byzantine tradition of the Arbëresh minority in Sicily, the paper focuses on a small group of them containing multipart musics, mainly ison and biphonies. The paper explores, mostly, the performative aspects of these sources in the contemporary religious practices, and their symbolic relevance as part of a very specific musical and cultural identity.