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"II –Il monastero benedettino", in Bonacasa Carra RM, Schirò G, Vitale E, Manenti M, "Il Monastero benedettino di Monreale. Dati storico-archeologici per una rilettura del complesso guglielmino"
No full textIn the Norman hunting park dominating the Conca d'Oro, in the second half of the XII century the monumental complex of Monreale began as a rational unitary body, consisting of the royal palace, the Duomo and the Benedictine convent which, from 1176, housed hundred Cluniac monks of Cava de 'Tirreni, called here by King William II; a wall, originally equipped with twelve towers, protected the religious community from possible external attacks. The goal of the founder was the creation of a strong instrument for the Christianization of western Sicily - still predominantly Muslim -, and at the same time of a prestigious dynastic mausoleum, in the explicit intent to rival all previous sacred imperial foundations from Late Antiquity onwards ( San Giovanni in Laterano, St. Sophia of Constantinople, the Cathedral of Cefalù, the Palatine Chapel in Palermo) in the majestic basilica, which is configured simultaneously as a Benedictine convent church, an episcopal church and a royal church. In the artistic and architectural language of the various components, the fusion of the three elements that characterize the Norman artistic production in Sicily is evident: the Latin, the Byzantine and the Islamic cultures.
The convent occupies the entire southern front of the complex; the archaeological excavations conducted here in 2002 provided the opportunity for a re-reading of the various phases of structural transformations of the monastery, starting from the time of the first Norman project till the restructuring interventions after the fire of 1811. The articulated architectural organism is configured as a mature example of western monastic building, able to respond to the organizational and productive needs of the cenobitic communities of Benedictine and Cistercian inspiration
Profilo dell'attività scientifica di Fabiola Ardizzone
No full textSi ripercorre l'attività scientifica della compianta Collega Fabiola Ardizzone, dai suoi esordi come allieva della Cattedra di Archeologia Cristiana dell'Università di Palermo, all'attività di insegnamento e di ricerca sul campo in qualità di Professore Associato. Il contributo dato da Fabiola Ardizzone agli studi sulla Tarda Antichità e sul Medioevo siciliani hanno riguardato molteplici direttrici di ricerca: dall'identificazione di nuove classi ceramiche alle modalità di organizzazione delle aree funerarie, dai problemi di topografia urbana all'archeologia dei cimiteri e ai problemi della produzione e circolazione delle produzioni ceramiche.The paper traces the scientific activity of Fabiola Ardizzone, from her beginnings as a student of the Chair of Christian Archeology at the University of Palermo, to the teaching and field research as Associate Professor. The contribution given by Fabiola Ardizzone to the studies on the Late Antiquity and Medieval Sicily concerns multiple research lines: identification of new ceramic productions, problems of urban topography, funerary archeology, production and circulation of fine and coarse wares in Medieval Mediterranean
Ricerche di Archeologia cristiana e bizantina nella Sicilia occidentale
No full textThe seventh Quaderno Digitale di Archeologia Postclassica contains the results of the researches conducted by the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Palermo and by the Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra in the Early Christian catacomb of Villagrazia di Carini during the years 2013-2014.
Emma Vitale and Fortunatina Vaccaro present the stratigraphic excavation carried out in the south-eastern district of the cemetery, while, in the third study of the book, Giuseppe Falzone analyzes two painted funerary inscriptions on the interior walls of Byzantine burials brought to light, in recent years, along the Decumanus Maximus of Lilybaeum
Nuovi dati sul cubicolo dell'Adorazione dei Magi nel cimitero comunitario di Villagrazia di Carini
No full textThe cubicle X10 is a privileged burial space in the south-eastern area of the Early Christian catacomb of Villagrazia di Carini. The archaeological investigations carried out from 2004 to 2007 have completely brought to the light the burial chamber, which hosts thirty-eight burials, some of which, reserved for children, are richly frescoed. In addition to the s.c. “habitat paradisiaco” (the rapresentation of the Heaven like a garden) and to the portraits of the deads, in this cubicle recurs twice the Adoration of the Magi, whose theological implications in the controversy against the Arian heresy have been analyzed by Rosa Maria Bonacasa Carra.
The structural analysis carried out in recent years have made it possible to clarify that the rather irregular conformation of the chamber is the result of two main expansion phases and of different sub-phases, which have altered its original appearance because of the continuous search for new spaces for burials by the community of the ancient diocese of Karines, mentioned in the Epistolary of Pope Gregory the Great.
The continuation of the research has also highlighted the use of the Roman foot of 29.7 cm applied, at first, to the originary project of the cubicle and, later, to each burial added in the subsequent construction phases.
Regarding the cemetery of Villagrazia di Carini, the metrological study is an entirely innovative research address, whose effectiveness is increasingly confirmed by the other private funerary chambers brought to the light into the catacomb until today
Valutazione della tenacità di innesco e di arresto in lamiere di elevato spessore mediante prove di ‘shock’ termico
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Prefazione
No full textThe monography written by Giovanni Filingeri and Giuseppe Randazzo examines all the historical and topographical data available to date for the localization of the area where the famous mosaic known as "De Spuches Mosaic" was found in 1873. After the discovery, Giuseppe De Spuches, Prince of Galati, transferred the pavement to his residence in Palermo. Through meticulous archival researches, the authors reconstruct the 19th century rural landscape in the Carini valley and especially in the "contrada San Nicola", and they propose a convincing hypothesis for identifying the site of the late Roman villa to which the mosaic must have belonged
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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