Papers by Klimis Aslanidis
Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών. Σχολή Πολυτεχνική. Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων Μηχανικών, Feb 1, 2014
Δελτίον της Χριστιανικής Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας, 2018
Σε ορισμένες εκκλησίες στα μικρά νησιά του Αιγαίου εμφανίζεται μια προσπάθεια αναβίωσης της παλαι... more Σε ορισμένες εκκλησίες στα μικρά νησιά του Αιγαίου εμφανίζεται μια προσπάθεια αναβίωσης της παλαιοχριστιανικής αρχιτεκτονικής. Ο Άγιος Μάμας της Ποταμιάς στη Νάξο και η Επισκοπή της Σαντορίνης εμπνέονται από γνωστούς ναούς του 6ου αιώνα. Παρόμοια τάση εμφανίζουν και οι Άγιοι Απόστολοι στο Άργος Καλύμνου. Αυτή η προσπάθεια είναι χαρακτηριστική της ιδεολογίας της εποχής της, αλλά περιορίζεται σε λίγα παραδείγματα, χωρίς να κατορθώνει να μεταβάλλει την τοπική έκφραση της αρχιτεκτονικής.
The castle of Vatika in Laconia occupies a rocky cliff not far from the modern coastal town of Ne... more The castle of Vatika in Laconia occupies a rocky cliff not far from the modern coastal town of Neapolis. The castle’s small courtyard is surrounded by buildings attached to the high external wall, including a barrel-vaulted chapel and some one or two-storey houses. A rectangular tower with a cistern is built at the highest point. A circuit wall surrounds the castle at a small distance. The castle developed in several phases. Although it was constructed as a military fort, houses were later attached to the external walls, significantly reducing the size of the inner courtyard. A small church of the single-nave, cross-in-square type has survived in ruins on the south side. The castle of Vatika should be dated to the Late Byzantine period, after the recapture of Monemvasia in 1262 and before the fall of the Despotate of the Morea to the Ottomans. The strong resemblance of its houses to those of Mystra, but also the common features it shares with numerous churches of the cape Malea peni...
Notebooks of Architectural Conservation, 2021
by Matteo G Randazzo, Margherita Riso, Mark Huggins, Niels Gaul, Aristotelis Nayfa, Katherine Taronas, MARIA CHRONOPOULOU, Ioannis Siopis, Danai Thomaidis, Victoria Beatrix Fendel, Ester Cristaldi, Cosimo Paravano, Callan Meynell, Obatnin Georgi, Bilal Adıgüzel, Abby-Eléonore Thouvenin, Alex M Feldman, Nikolaos Vryzidis, Barbara (Varvára) Astafurova, and Klimis Aslanidis It is our great pleasure to publish this booklet of abstracts of the 2nd Annual Edinburgh Interna... more It is our great pleasure to publish this booklet of abstracts of the 2nd Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Byzantine Conference entitled “Reception, Appropriation and Innovation: Byzantium between the Christian and Islamic Worlds”, taking place at the University of Edinburgh from 30 November-1 December 2018. We publish here the 28 abstracts submitted by all of our speakers, including our invited, keynote speakers, all of whom we thank for their commitment to making this conference a success – and their contribution towards this end shines through on each of the following pages.
From the beginning this conference has been the fruit of collaborative efforts amongst individual scholars and institutions, as well, from many different countries. First, within the University of Edinburgh itself, the conference marks an important development in interdisciplinary collaboration amongst schools and colleges, as it is co-organized by students from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology together with the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
Moreover, we are very happy to have welcomed here scholars from all over the world to present their research from 20 different institutions in several countries: France, Greece, Turkey, Finland, UK, USA, Austria, Egypt, Italy, Denmark and Israel. Finally, this fruitful and multi-faceted collaboration would not have been possible without the generous support of the Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Research Group of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology together with the Alwaleed Centre of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, both of the University of Edinburgh, as well as generous support from the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.
This booklet of abstracts has a twofold aim: 1) to situate this conference within the wider research context of the University of Edinburgh, highlighting the interdisciplinary work being conducted here with the hope of establishing these interdepartmental relations on solid ground for years to come, and 2) to make the fruits of these joint efforts readily available to a wider, global audience, both within academia and beyond, by means of various media and open-access publishing.
AURA, 2019
The castle of Vatika in Laconia occupies a rocky cliff not far from the modern coastal town of Ne... more The castle of Vatika in Laconia occupies a rocky cliff not far from the modern coastal town of Neapolis. The castle’s small courtyard is surrounded by buildings attached to the high external wall, including a barrel-vaulted chapel and some one or two-storey houses. A rectangular tower with a cistern is built at the highest point. A circuit wall surrounds the castle at a small distance. The castle developed in several phases. Although it was constructed as a military fort, houses were later attached to the external walls, significantly reducing the size of the inner courtyard. A small church of the single-nave, cross-in-square type has survived in ruins on the south side. The castle of Vatika should be dated to the Late Byzantine period, after the recapture of Monemvasia in 1262 and before the fall of the Despotate of the Morea to the Ottomans. The strong resemblance of its houses to those of Mystra, but also the common features it shares with numerous churches of the cape Malea peninsula that are dated to this period, justify this
assumption. The addition of bastions at the circuit wall could possibly be dated to the short period of Venetian rule in the fifteenth century.
James Crow is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, his research foc... more James Crow is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, his research focuses on the archaeology of settlement and frontiers. Over thirty years his fieldwork and studies have ranged from Hadrian's Wall in Britain to the eastern Mediterranean in particular Greece and Turkey from Roman to later medieval times. Recently he has focused on Byzantine urban and landscape archaeology especially the water supply of Constantinople and on the coastal regions of the Black Sea and the Aegean.
The small single-nave church of St Paul near Akamatra
in Ikaria is known for its non-figurative p... more The small single-nave church of St Paul near Akamatra
in Ikaria is known for its non-figurative painted decoration.
The re-examination of the three written inscriptions
of the church leads to the conclusion that it does
not date to 1103/4, as was hitherto believed, but to 1612,
since their first letter is not ς΄ but α΄. The particular
form of the letter ‘α’ also appears in Ikarian documents
of the 17th century. The architecture of the church indicates
a similar date. Therefore, the non-figurative decoration
of the church of St Paul is interpreted as the
result of the inability to invite a painter, due to the conditions
of extreme poverty that prevailed in early 17th
century Ikaria.
Re-examination of the architecture of the Episkopi in Santorini (Επανεξέταση της αρχιτεκτονικής τ... more Re-examination of the architecture of the Episkopi in Santorini (Επανεξέταση της αρχιτεκτονικής της Επισκοπής Σαντορίνης, στο: Β. Κατσαρός, Α. Τούρτα (επιμ.), Αφιέρωμα στον ακαδημαϊκό Παναγιώτη Λ. Βοκοτόπουλο, Αθήνα 2015, σ. 107-14)
Middle Byzantine church architecture in Andros and its relations to mainland Greece and the islan... more Middle Byzantine church architecture in Andros and its relations to mainland Greece and the islands. Byzantine Andros (4th – 12th century). New data from the archaeological research and the restoration of monuments. Proceedings of a scientific meeting held in Athens on March 20th 2015, Andriaka Chronika 43 (2016), 127–139, fig. 60–69 / Η μεσοβυζαντινή ναοδομία στην Άνδρο και οι σχέσεις της με την ηπειρωτική Ελλάδα και τα νησιά, Η βυζαντινή Άνδρος (4ος -12ος αιώνας). Νεώτερα από την αρχαιολογική έρευνα και τις αποκαταστάσεις των μνημείων, Επιστημονική συνάντηση. ΕΚΠΑ, Αθήνα 20 Μαρτίου 2015, Ανδριακά Χρονικά 43 (2016), 127-39, εικ. 60-69.
constantinoPolitan features in the middle Byzantine architecture of naXos * naxos, situated in th... more constantinoPolitan features in the middle Byzantine architecture of naXos * naxos, situated in the heart of the aegean sea, is the largest of the cyclades islands and holds a particular place in the study of Byzantine architecture, as it preserves over a hundred churches dating from the early christian to the late Byzantine times 1 . the survival of this impressive number of churches is connected with the absence of major human-caused or physical calamities in the history of the island, but also with the special importance of the island during all stages of its mediaeval past. after the mid 7th century, naxos suffers from arab raids, like all coastal regions of the aegean sea, but its mountainous -yet fertile -inland parts offer a safe shelter for the inhabitants 2 . archaeological evidence indicates an uninterrupted activity during the so-called dark ages, even though, according to the early 10th century testimony of cameniates, it appears that the island was paying tribute to the arabs of crete 3 . the re-conquest of crete in 961 and the restoration of peace in the aegean mark the beginning of the middle Byzantine era, a period of over two centuries of significant prosperity 4 . the founding of the diocese of Paronaxia in 1083 5 and of the theme of the "cycladic islands" around the mid 10th century 6 , whose capital was perhaps naxos 7 , are indications of this prosperity and also of the empire's attention to the island. its importance is also the reason for which, after the conquest of constantinople by the crusaders, marco sanudo founds in 1205 the duchy of naxos which controls most of the cyclades islands for over 300 years 8 . the middle Byzantine architecture of naxos has not been thoroughly studied. many buildings remain unpublished or have been published very briefly. there are significant problems of dating as well as issues of a complicated succession of building phases. however, it is possible to make some general remarks. regarding the evolution of architectural types, it seems that the general trends that prevail elsewhere can also be traced on naxos. from the 9th century onwards, the vaulted basilical type gives way to domed types, of which the cross-in-square gradually prevails, especially in its contracted variation which becomes the most preferable type in the 11th and 12th centuries 9 . regarding the architectural forms and decoration 10 , naxos remained largely attached to a local tradition which had developed throughout the so-called * i wish to thank the state hermitage museum for including this paper in the programme of the seminar and personally dr. denis Jolshin who encouraged me and the greek colleagues in taking a trip to st. Petersburg. the subject of this paper is part of a research on the island of naxos, carried out in the framework of the doctoral thesis which i am preparing at the university of Patras, under the supervision of dr. stavros mamaloukos.
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From the beginning this conference has been the fruit of collaborative efforts amongst individual scholars and institutions, as well, from many different countries. First, within the University of Edinburgh itself, the conference marks an important development in interdisciplinary collaboration amongst schools and colleges, as it is co-organized by students from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology together with the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
Moreover, we are very happy to have welcomed here scholars from all over the world to present their research from 20 different institutions in several countries: France, Greece, Turkey, Finland, UK, USA, Austria, Egypt, Italy, Denmark and Israel. Finally, this fruitful and multi-faceted collaboration would not have been possible without the generous support of the Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Research Group of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology together with the Alwaleed Centre of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, both of the University of Edinburgh, as well as generous support from the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.
This booklet of abstracts has a twofold aim: 1) to situate this conference within the wider research context of the University of Edinburgh, highlighting the interdisciplinary work being conducted here with the hope of establishing these interdepartmental relations on solid ground for years to come, and 2) to make the fruits of these joint efforts readily available to a wider, global audience, both within academia and beyond, by means of various media and open-access publishing.
assumption. The addition of bastions at the circuit wall could possibly be dated to the short period of Venetian rule in the fifteenth century.
in Ikaria is known for its non-figurative painted decoration.
The re-examination of the three written inscriptions
of the church leads to the conclusion that it does
not date to 1103/4, as was hitherto believed, but to 1612,
since their first letter is not ς΄ but α΄. The particular
form of the letter ‘α’ also appears in Ikarian documents
of the 17th century. The architecture of the church indicates
a similar date. Therefore, the non-figurative decoration
of the church of St Paul is interpreted as the
result of the inability to invite a painter, due to the conditions
of extreme poverty that prevailed in early 17th
century Ikaria.
From the beginning this conference has been the fruit of collaborative efforts amongst individual scholars and institutions, as well, from many different countries. First, within the University of Edinburgh itself, the conference marks an important development in interdisciplinary collaboration amongst schools and colleges, as it is co-organized by students from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology together with the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
Moreover, we are very happy to have welcomed here scholars from all over the world to present their research from 20 different institutions in several countries: France, Greece, Turkey, Finland, UK, USA, Austria, Egypt, Italy, Denmark and Israel. Finally, this fruitful and multi-faceted collaboration would not have been possible without the generous support of the Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Research Group of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology together with the Alwaleed Centre of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, both of the University of Edinburgh, as well as generous support from the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.
This booklet of abstracts has a twofold aim: 1) to situate this conference within the wider research context of the University of Edinburgh, highlighting the interdisciplinary work being conducted here with the hope of establishing these interdepartmental relations on solid ground for years to come, and 2) to make the fruits of these joint efforts readily available to a wider, global audience, both within academia and beyond, by means of various media and open-access publishing.
assumption. The addition of bastions at the circuit wall could possibly be dated to the short period of Venetian rule in the fifteenth century.
in Ikaria is known for its non-figurative painted decoration.
The re-examination of the three written inscriptions
of the church leads to the conclusion that it does
not date to 1103/4, as was hitherto believed, but to 1612,
since their first letter is not ς΄ but α΄. The particular
form of the letter ‘α’ also appears in Ikarian documents
of the 17th century. The architecture of the church indicates
a similar date. Therefore, the non-figurative decoration
of the church of St Paul is interpreted as the
result of the inability to invite a painter, due to the conditions
of extreme poverty that prevailed in early 17th
century Ikaria.