Transcultural Urbanity in the Syrian steppe-desertResafa from the 1st to the 13th century within its regional and overregional context

叙利亚草原沙漠中的跨文化城市Resafa 从 1 世纪到 13 世纪的区域和超区域背景

• 批准号: 322407976
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Michaela Konrad
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fachgebiet Historische Bauforschung, Masterstudium Denkmalpflege
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/322407976?language=en
• 关键词: Transcultural; Urbanity; Syrian; steppe; desertResafa

In the 5th and 6th c. AD, Resafa, holy site of the martyrship of Saint Sergios, developed from a Late Roman frontier post to one of the most important pilgrimage sites of the Eastern Mediterranean. In the 2nd quarter of the 8th c. the Umayyad caliph Hisham b. Abd al-Malik founded a residence in the area south of the byzantine city. Throughout the period of its existence the site profited from its position at the crossing of two important caravan routes. The main research topics of the application result from this specific historical und environmental disposition. The project aims to analyze the development of the site from its formation until its abandonment in the 13th c. As Resafa and its surroundings were in the focus of systematic archaeological fieldwork from 1952 until the outbreak of the civil war in 2011, research conditions at the site are exceptionally favorable (since 1975 as project of the DAI). The actual application aims to interpret the results of 50 years of research under superordinate scholarly aspects. The first step of research will be the analysis of the urban development of the site from the Roman fortification to an urban pilgrimage site and caliphal residence. For the first time research will also integrate the systematic inventory and interpretation of the latest structures until the Crusades. Synchronously to research referring to the structures intra muros, all remains in the wider area of the city will be integrated into the analysis. With this layout the applicants create a project that will deliver substantially new results to the following main aspects: 1. The urban construction phases and the development of the city and its surroundings, 2. Protagonists in the development of the urban space, 3. Spaces of transcultural development. Research within the project will summarize all material-based work that has been done until now and interpret it diachronically, regarding all written sources to each topic. Superordinate questions of the project will analyze the reasons and consequences of the urban development, differentiating between endogenous and exogenous factors of the development. Furthermore intercultural and transcultural processes will be discussed considering environmental, political, social, economic and religious conditions. The discussion will be extended to theoretical models and actual debates of Zentralortforschung in geography, history and cultural history. Without any doubt the results will exceed the geographical frame of Northern Syria. Due to the extraordinary status of knowledge and a rich pool of material sources the results of the project will become paradigmatic for transformation processes in peripheral spaces. The team will bring together archaeologists, building historians, historians, and philologists. International workshops that are dedicated to the main research topics of the project aim to optimize scholarly exchange consulting experts from outside the project.

在第五和第六世纪。公元后的雷萨法是圣塞尔吉奥斯殉难的圣地，从晚期罗马边境哨所发展成为东地中海最重要的朝圣地之一。公元 8 世纪第二季度。倭马亚哈里发希沙姆 b．阿卜杜勒·马利克在拜占庭城市南部地区建立了一座住宅。在其存在期间，该地点受益于其位于两条重要商队路线交叉口的位置。本申请的主要研究课题源于这一特定的历史和环境倾向。该项目旨在分析该遗址从形成到 13 世纪废弃的整个发展过程。从 1952 年到 2011 年内战爆发，雷萨法及其周边地区一直是系统考古实地考察的重点，因此该遗址的研究条件非常有利（自 1975 年起作为 DAI 的项目）。实际应用旨在从学术层面解释50年的研究成果。研究的第一步将是分析该遗址从罗马防御工事到城市朝圣地和哈里发住所的城市发展。研究还将首次整合对十字军东征之前最新结构的系统清单和解释。在对城内结构进行研究的同时，城市更广泛区域内的所有遗迹都将被纳入分析中。通过这种布局，申请人创建的项目将在以下主要方面带来实质性的新成果：1.城市建设阶段和城市及其周边地区的发展，2.城市空间发展的主角，3.跨文化发展的空间。该项目内的研究将总结迄今为止已完成的所有基于材料的工作，并根据每个主题的所有书面来源对其进行历时解释。该项目的上位问题将分析城市发展的原因和后果，区分发展的内生因素和外生因素。此外，还将考虑环境、政治、社会、经济和宗教条件来讨论跨文化和跨文化进程。讨论将扩展到地理、历史和文化史领域的Zentralortforschung的理论模型和实际争论。毫无疑问，结果将超出叙利亚北部的地理范围。由于知识的非凡地位和丰富的材料来源，该项目的结果将成为周边空间改造过程的典范。该团队将汇集考古学家、建筑历史学家、历史学家和语言学家。专门针对该项目主要研究课题的国际研讨会旨在优化项目外部咨询专家的学术交流。