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During the medieval period, the Armenian world was composed of two major poles, Great Armenia, which fell under Seljuk domination, and Cilicia, a principality, then an Armenian kingdom. Contacts continued between these two areas,... more
During the medieval period, the Armenian world was composed of two major poles, Great Armenia, which fell under Seljuk domination, and Cilicia, a principality, then an Armenian kingdom. Contacts continued between these two areas, particularly on a religious level. Armenian Christianity remained unified, and meetings of bishops were, for example, the source of trips, embassies and councils. In the same way, the Catholicos sends letters to all Christians, through the intermediary of emissaries who travel from one place to another. Cultural Contacts continue, with the circulation of manuscripts between Great Armenia and Cilicia.
During the medieval period, the Armenian world was composed of two major poles, Great Armenia, which fell under Seljuk domination, and Cilicia, a principality, then an Armenian kingdom. Contacts continued between these two areas,... more
During the medieval period, the Armenian world was composed of two major poles, Great Armenia, which fell under Seljuk domination, and Cilicia, a principality, then an Armenian kingdom. Contacts continued between these two areas, particularly on a religious level. Armenian Christianity remained unified, and meetings of bishops were, for example, the source of trips, embassies and councils. In the same way, the Catholicos sends letters to all Christians, through the intermediary of emissaries who travel from one place to another. Cultural Contacts continue, with the circulation of manuscripts between Great Armenia and Cilicia.
le colloque « À la suite de Paul lemerle : l’humanisme byzantin et les études sur le xie siècle quarante ans après », qui a eu lieu à Paris du 23 au 26 octobre 2013 et dont le volume que voici est issu, a été organisé avec l’aide du... more
le colloque « À la suite de Paul lemerle : l’humanisme byzantin et les études sur le xie siècle quarante ans après », qui a eu lieu à Paris du 23 au 26 octobre 2013 et dont le volume que voici est issu, a été organisé avec l’aide du Collège de France, de l’Institut universitaire de France, de l’UMR Orient et Méditerranée et de l’université Paris-Sorbonne.
l’idée de réunir un colloque, ou plutôt deux colloques parallèles autour de deux œuvres majeures de Paul lemerle, Le premier humanisme byzantin, et les Cinq études sur le XIe siècle byzantin, est venue pour nous deux de constatations communes. Il s’agissait de rendre hommage à celui qui, par son enseignement, par ses travaux, par ceux aussi de ses élèves, par les institutions qui lui doivent leur naissance, a façonné les études byzantines en France telles que nous les connaissons. Il s’agissait aussi, pour tous deux, de l’expérience d’un enseignement, historique ou philologique, qui s’était appuyé pendant plusieurs décennies sur ces œuvres. Étaient-elles encore actuelles ? Quels correctifs leur apporter ? Comment, au cours des quarante ans et plus qui s’étaient écoulés, les questions évoquées dans ces deux ouvrages fondamentaux avaient-elles évolué ? Il n’a pas été difficile de trouver, à l’étranger ou en France, des collègues qui, familiers eux aussi avec l’œuvre si influente de Paul lemerle, ont accepté de nous rejoindre à Paris dans les locaux du Collège de France, et d’apporter leur contribution à cet hommage et à cette recherche.
Concern for the dead is common to all of humanity, a sentiment that goes well beyond the wide repertoire of funerary practices that express and translate it. But the relations between the living and the dead, the material and immaterial... more
Concern for the dead is common to all of humanity, a sentiment that goes well beyond the wide repertoire of funerary practices that express and translate it. But the relations between the living and the dead, the material and immaterial interchanges that take place beyond the grave provide historians and archaeologists with important material that reveals the structures (social, economic and symbolic) of the society they are studying. In choosing to hold its 48th Congress in Jerusalem, a city that is both sanctuary and cemetery and where, in the Middle Ages, so many came to die or aspired to die, the SHMESP wishes to train a searchlight on the relations between the living and the dead in a place that is central to the beliefs and eschatology of the three great monotheistic traditions. Keeping in mind the diversity of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim worlds and their interaction, our authors have sought to highlight what remains of the gestures, the practices and the beliefs of the men and women with respect to their dead: from the archaeological study of burial methods to their representations, from funerary epigraphy to the archival memory of the deceased, from the commentaries on the sacred texts to the lives of the famous and anonymous dead. Thus, we cast light on the funereal customs, on the space which the dead occupy alone or share with the living in the society of their time, on the economy and material and memorial exchanges between the living and the dead, and finally on the beliefs and the multiple temporalities that can be discerned in relationships that extend beyond the grave. The Middle Ages kept alive a constant interchange between the living and the dead – our aim is for this uninterrupted dialogue to be heard once again.