I am an art historian with a research focus on the material culture of the medieval Mediterranean.
I have studied Middle Byzantine head reliquaries and their afterlife in the West after the Fourth Crusade (1204) in the framework of my dissertation (University of Cologne). My last postdoc project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) was dedicated to the topography and the urban development of Pera, the Genoese outpost on the Golden Horn established after 1261.
Since April 2024 I teach online courses at the Historisches Institut of the Fernuniversität in Hagen.
Since November 2024 I am associated (Jeanne Baret scholarship) at the Transmare Institute of Trier University with my new project on the trade and processing of lapis lazuli from the Hindu Kush region in the late medieval Mediterranean.
I have studied Middle Byzantine head reliquaries and their afterlife in the West after the Fourth Crusade (1204) in the framework of my dissertation (University of Cologne). My last postdoc project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) was dedicated to the topography and the urban development of Pera, the Genoese outpost on the Golden Horn established after 1261.
Since April 2024 I teach online courses at the Historisches Institut of the Fernuniversität in Hagen.
Since November 2024 I am associated (Jeanne Baret scholarship) at the Transmare Institute of Trier University with my new project on the trade and processing of lapis lazuli from the Hindu Kush region in the late medieval Mediterranean.
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The second part of the study concerns the veneration of Byzantine head relics in Constantinople and, more specifically, head relics that were transferred to the West in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. A discussion of Latin, post-1204 sources which affected medieval and modern perceptions of Byzantine relic veneration counters a bias against Byzantine sacred goldsmith work discernable in scholarship of the mid-20th century. Together with appendices on the anatomical nomenclature of the human skull, skull-chalices, and selected sacred objects made of precious metal related to relic veneration and the Eucharist, this study aims to reconstruct head reliquary types. It also seeks to refute the claim in art history that simple caskets that can easily be opened were commonly used as reliquaries of Byzantine body relics.
https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_1677.ahtml?NKLN=582_A
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Conference: A Viking in the Sun: Harald Hardrada, the Mediterranean, and the Nordic World, Symposium II: Women and Power (9-11 September 2024) organized by Gianluca Raccagni / Univerity of Edinburgh
Anmeldung:
https://ebw-oberpfalz.de/event/wirkungsgeschichte-der-bertha-von-sulzbach/
Historische Druckerei Seidel, Luitpoldplatz 4
92237 Sulzbach-Rosenberg
Ringvorlesung:
Kapital, Ökonomie und die Künste
Berner Mittelalter Zentrum, Universität Bern
Frühjahrssemester 2019
The second part of the study concerns the veneration of Byzantine head relics in Constantinople and, more specifically, head relics that were transferred to the West in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. A discussion of Latin, post-1204 sources which affected medieval and modern perceptions of Byzantine relic veneration counters a bias against Byzantine sacred goldsmith work discernable in scholarship of the mid-20th century. Together with appendices on the anatomical nomenclature of the human skull, skull-chalices, and selected sacred objects made of precious metal related to relic veneration and the Eucharist, this study aims to reconstruct head reliquary types. It also seeks to refute the claim in art history that simple caskets that can easily be opened were commonly used as reliquaries of Byzantine body relics.
https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_1677.ahtml?NKLN=582_A
Conference: A Viking in the Sun: Harald Hardrada, the Mediterranean, and the Nordic World, Symposium II: Women and Power (9-11 September 2024) organized by Gianluca Raccagni / Univerity of Edinburgh
Anmeldung:
https://ebw-oberpfalz.de/event/wirkungsgeschichte-der-bertha-von-sulzbach/
Historische Druckerei Seidel, Luitpoldplatz 4
92237 Sulzbach-Rosenberg
Ringvorlesung:
Kapital, Ökonomie und die Künste
Berner Mittelalter Zentrum, Universität Bern
Frühjahrssemester 2019
Symposium am Seminar für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft
der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Campus Stadt, Dortmunder U, Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund
Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond.
International Workshop at the Department of Art History, University of Vienna
5. Doktoranden- und Postdoktorandenkolloquium der
Universität zu Köln, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
La torre di Galata è, senz’alcun dubbio, uno dei più popolari monumenti dell’odierna Istanbul. Eppure la sua storia, ed in particolare la sua fondazione genovese, è poco indagata. Nota anche con il nome di Christea Turris, la torre venne eretta intorno alla metà del XIV sec. come parte del sistema di fortificazioni di Galata/Pera, cioè l’insediamento genovese sul lato settentrionale del Corno d’Oro, che guardava direttamente Costantinopoli, la capitale bizantina. L’imponente struttura difensiva subì nel corso del tempo varie modifiche sia a livello strutturale che funzionale. La studiosa presenterà le sue recenti ricerche sulla topografia e lo sviluppo urbano di Galata durante l’epoca genovese, con particolare attenzione alla sua più antica fondazione e ai possibili prototipi architettonici della torre.
Der Vierte Kreuzzug endete im April 1204 mit der Eroberung Konstantinopels. Venezianer und Franken, die neuen Herrscher am Bosporus, schafften in den folgenden Jahren zahllose Preziosen aus Edelmetall und Reliquien in den Westen. Besonders begehrt waren Heiligenschädel, die fortan in Amiens, Troyes, Halberstadt und andernorts verehrt wurden, meist neugeschaffene Reliquiare erhielten und den empfangenden Kirchen und Klöstern Ansehen, neue Kirchenfeste und Pilger brachten.
Doch welche Rolle spielten byzantinische Schädelreliquien im orthodoxen Heiligenkult? Was für byzantinische Reliquiartypen lassen sich rekonstruieren? Und wie wirkten sich kirchenpolitische Differenzen zwischen Rom und Konstantinopel auf die Wahrnehmung orthodoxer Reliquienverehrung aus? Der Vortrag geht am Beispiel ausgewählter Objekte sowie schriftlicher und visueller Quellen diesen Fragen nach.
throughout human history, this workshop will explore the specific notion of pillaging sacred space from diachronic and cross-cultural perspectives. How is looting and destroying sacred space negotiated, conceived, and judged within the framework of conquest? Are individual ‘arch-plunderers’ discernible in various ancient and medieval cultures? How should we read accounts of pillaging sacred space? The speakers address these and related questions by analysing the plundering histories of particular sites
and by tackling broader cultural trends and influences such as economic factors, religious zealotry, and the possibility of creating or enforcing norms.
Jelena Bogdanović and Marina Mihaljević, conveners