Beyond the Myth of Byzantium: Ritual Installations and Visual Concepts in Seventh-century Aruch, Mren, Talin, and Tsromi

FOLETTI, Ivan. Beyond the Myth of Byzantium: Ritual Installations and Visual Concepts in Seventh-century Aruch, Mren, Talin, and Tsromi. In The 54th SPBS Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond. 2023.

Basic information

• Original name: Beyond the Myth of Byzantium: Ritual Installations and Visual Concepts in Seventh-century Aruch, Mren, Talin, and Tsromi
• Authors: FOLETTI, Ivan.
• Edition: The 54th SPBS Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond, 2023.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Requested lectures
• Field of Study: 60401 Arts, Art history
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: Colonialism; Russian Imperialism; Orientalism; 7th Century Visual Cultur; Armenia; Iberia; Mediterranean

Abstract

Obscured for nearly two centuries by imperialist (Russian) and Orientalist (Europe & the U.S.) perspectives, the visual culture of the South Caucasus in the 7th century shows how the region was actively participating in cultural and theological debates proper to the entire Mediterranean. Thus not only was it not a marginal culture, but on the contrary it was one of the crossroads of the Eurasian world.

Links

• GF21-01706L, research and development project: Name: Kulturní dialogy v Jihokavkazském regionu ve středověku: historiografická a historicko-umělecká perspektiva (Acronym: CIMS)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Partner Agency