THE DOWER CHARTER OF OTTO II AND THEOPHANU, AND THE ROMAN SCRIPTORIUM AT SANTI APOSTOLI

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
John Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Tenth Century ◽  
Writing Culture ◽  
The City

Analyses of writing culture in tenth-century Rome have been impeded by an absence of manuscripts and documents that can be assigned unquestionably to scriptoria in the city. This paper will examine the possibility that one such document has hitherto been hiding in plain sight, as it were: the dower charter given by Emperor Otto II to the Byzantine princess Theophanu on the occasion of their marriage in St Peter's on 14 April 972. Usually considered to be ‘Ottonian’, rather than ‘Italian’ or ‘Roman’, this document nevertheless states explicitly that it was undertaken at the Roman church of Santi Apostoli, and this possibility is assessed in light of what is known about that church, the Via Lata region and their connections to the foremost noble family in the city.

Exercising Power in the City

2020 ◽  
pp. 398-464
Author(s):  
Veronica West-Harling
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The City

This chapter shows the exercising of power in action in the public space. It looks at who ‘owns’ this, the Christianization of it in Rome, and the increasing role of the papacy in appropriating and in running it, revalorizing it as part of Rome’s Christian past and present, expressed through pilgrimage. This appropriation is contested by the secular aristocracy, which in turn appropriates the public space and rewrites the topography of the city in the tenth century. The use of the public space as an area of either social cohesion or conflict is studied, through the ceremonies, elections, oaths, processions, assemblies, justice and defence meetings; but also riots, conspiracies, and contested elections. This space of cohesion or conflict is fundamental to the creation of the unity and sense of identity of the city, especially around the patron saint or, sometimes, around or indeed against an imperial ruler

scholarly journals Existing and Proposed Urban Geosites Values Resulting from Geodiversity of Poznań City

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Zwoliński ◽  
Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke ◽  
Małgorzata Mazurek ◽  
Mirosław Makohonienko
Keyword(s):  
Tenth Century ◽  
Impact Craters ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Peat Bog ◽  
Human History ◽  
The City ◽  
Weichselian Glaciation ◽  
Vast Area

Abstract Poznań, a city in central-western Poland, is located in the lowland region but has no less attractive geomorphological and human history. It was here that Poland was born at the end of the tenth century. The city’s location is connected with the meridian course of the Warta River valley. In contrast, in the northern part of the city, there is a vast area of the frontal moraines of the Poznań Phase of the Weichselian Glaciation. Against the backdrop of the geomorphological development of the city, the article presents the existing geosites, classified as urban geosites. The present geosites include three lapidaries with Scandinavian postglacial erratics, one of them also with stoneware, a fragment of a frontal push moraine and impact craters. Besides, three locations of proposed geosites with rich geomorphological and/or human history were identified. These are as follows: the peat bog located in the northern part of the city, defence ramparts as exhumed anthropogenic forms, and the Warta River valley. The existing and proposed geosites in Poznań were evaluated in three ways. In general, it should be assumed that the proposed new geosites are higher ranked than the current ones.

"Isa Monogatari" and religious representations of "Hayan"

2001 ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
S. V. Kapranov
Keyword(s):  
Tenth Century ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Deep Knowledge ◽  
Writing Culture ◽  
Educated Person

"Ise monogatari" is a remarkable monument of Japanese classical literature, dated around the end of the XIX - the beginning of the tenth century. The author of this piece is not known, although the most common traditional version states that it is one of the leading poets of Heaven's (794-1192) years of Arrivar-Narihira (825-880). "Ise monogatari" occupies an important place in the classical hierarchy of texts - deep knowledge of it was obligatory for an educated person; in addition, this work includes a review of the life of the Heianan aristocrat, and therefore has the character of "encyclopedic" self-writing culture.

scholarly journals The Impact of Commercial Mutations on Historical Buildings in Algeria: Case of Colonial Quarters in The City of Annaba

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mounira Mihoubi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Eastern Algeria ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The commercial dynamics that the city of Annaba has experienced in recent decades, due to social and economic development and market liberalization, have changed its urban and architectural heritage. This city, located in north-eastern Algeria and created before the tenth century, has seen many civilizations and dynasties pass by. Every civilization has left behind traces that time has sometimes taken care of protecting them, to bequeath us or erasing them completely. This heritage wealth testifying and telling the story of our ancestors' past, unfortunately, began to lose its value and originality after the transformations and modifications that took place in the old residential buildings inherited from two opposing cultures by integrating new forms of commercial activities. The objective of this communication is to analyse and measure the evolution of these mutations, with a focus on the ancient colonial areas of the city of Annaba where the phenomenon is most pronounced.

Moving Bones

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Herrin
Keyword(s):  
Tenth Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Constantius Ii ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
Latin Version

The rulers of Byzantium had a specific burial place, which had been established by Constantine I—the imperial mausoleum later attached to the Church of the Holy Apostles. The eponymous founder of the city was the first to be laid to rest in the mausoleum he had constructed, which was probably finished by his son Constantius II. By the sixth century so many emperors had joined him there that Justinian constructed another mausoleum similarly attached to the church for his own burial. A record compiled in the tenth century and attached to the Book of Ceremonies preserves an identification of some of these tombs in the two imperial mausolea. A slightly fuller Latin version is also preserved and was studied by Philip Grierson in 1962. From this document it is possible to find out which emperors and empresses ended up in the most desirable tombs in the capital. The survival of this information, when put together with other historical records, makes it clear that imperial bones were often moved around. This chapter traces some of their most surprising journeys.

The Actors

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-192
Author(s):  
Veronica West-Harling
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Separate Entity ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The City

This is the first of two chapters to look at the inhabitants of each city, the actors of its history. Roman society is studied through the elites (including the popes as rulers of the city) and the populus. The study of the Roman aristocracy in the periods 750–900, then 900–1000, looks at individual members and their families, titles, status, and wealth; and at the popes themselves, individually and collectively, through their struggles in elections, riots, and conflicts. The populus (urban clergy, merchants, artisans, pilgrims, the poor) is next. The period saw power alternate between a secular aristocracy, first as members of the papal government in the ninth century, then as a separate entity in the tenth century. But the papacy’s role had become too important on the European scene, through the veneration for St Peter, for the city to be governed independently of its involvement in international affairs

The Earliest Christian Chant Repertory Recovered: The Georgian Witnesses to Jerusalem Chant

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Peter Jeffery
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
Critical Editions ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

From the fourth to the twelfth century, the city of Jerusalem had its own liturgical rite and chant repertory, which used the Greek language. Until recently, however, very little was known about this tradition because hardly any medieval manuscripts of it survived. But the Greek texts were translated into Georgian when the church of Georgia adopted the rite of Jerusalem as its own, and critical editions of these translations, made from tenth-century manuscripts, have recently been published. The translations show that the chant repertory of Jerusalem exercised much influence on the other medieval chant repertories in Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and Latin. When texts from Jerusalem survive in these other traditions, they tend to be set to melodies that are consistent with the modal assignments and neumes of the Georgian sources. This suggests that the features these melodies share do go back in some way to the lost melodies that were once sung in Jerusalem itself.

Two new inscribed Storm-god stelae from Arsuz (İskenderun): ARSUZ 1 and 2

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 59-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belkıs Dinçol ◽  
Ali Dinçol ◽  
J.D. Hawkins ◽  
Hasan Peker ◽  
Aliye Öztan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Tell Tayinat ◽  
The City

AbstractIn 2007 two stelae, each bearing figures of the Storm-god leading a ruler and a duplicate Hieroglyphic Luwian text, were discovered at Uluçınar (formerly Arsuz), on the Turkish coast south of Iskenderun. The inscription is the work of a Suppiluliuma, son of Manana, king of the land of Walastin, now understood as the Luwian designation of the Amuq plain with its capital at the Iron Age site of Tell Tayinat. The stelae, probably dating to the later tenth century BC, record the successful reign of the ruler and his happy relations with the Storm-god. Historically important is a passage which describes this Amuq king's victory over the Cilician plain, the city of Adana and the land of Hiyawa.

Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Marlow
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Culture Volume ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Eastern Iran ◽  
Contextual Study ◽  
The City

This two-volume work represents a textual and contextual study of an early Arabic mirror for princes, the book known as Naṣīḥat al-mulūk (‘Counsel for Kings’) and attributed to the jurist and polymath Abū l-Ḥasan al-Māwardī (d. 450/1058). Following earlier studies, Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran finds the Arabic mirror’s traditional ascription to al-Māwardī to be unlikely, and proposes instead an early tenth-century dating, and an eastern Iran setting. On this assumption, Wisdom and Politics interprets the mirror as a product of and reflection on the political culture and social and cultural conditions of the early Samanid period, portrayed through the critical argument and counsel of an author, referred to as Pseudo-Māwardī, likely to have resided in or near the city of Balkh. Pseudo-Māwardī’s perceptions and opinions reflect a largely Ḥanafite legal affiliation and strongly Muʿtazilite patterns of thought, of a kind associated with Abū l-Qāsim al-Kaʿbī al-Balkhī (d. 319/931), who furthered the ‘Baghdadi’ branch of Muʿtazilite theology in eastern Iran. Naṣīḥat al-mulūk also displays an affinity with the philosophical perspectives of Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (d. 322/934), and a thorough familiarity with Arabic literary culture. Volume I explores the context in which Naṣīḥat al-mulūk arose and to which it responds. Against an early tenth-century Samanid background, it studies Pseudo-Māwardī’s portrayal of kingship and governance, his arguments for the ruler’s optimal treatment of the various social groups, his references to the diversity of the region’s religious culture, his largely inclusive but also boundary-establishing assertions regarding religious beliefs and practices, the literary representations of heterodoxy that shaped his mentality and the resonance of his text in the setting that produced it.

scholarly journals Concerning the formation of ancient Vitebsk as the administrative, political, trade, economic and spiritual center (X - the first half of XII century.)

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
A.N. Dulov ◽  
D.V. Iurchak
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Political Center ◽  
Time Served ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
The City

The article traced the key moments of the transformation of the tribal settlements of Slavic-Krivichy in ancient early feudal town. The authors believe that the beginning of the formation of ancient Vitebsk as the administrative and political center is connected with the subordination of Kiev in the middle of the tenth century. This was facilitated by placing the city on important commercial artery - p. Dvina and this was created favorable conditions for the development of foreign trade. As an important administrative and commercial and economic center, the city at the same time served as a spiritual center, facilitate the spread of the Christian faith.

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