Procopius and the language of buildings

普罗科皮乌斯和建筑语言

• 批准号: 400139393
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Gunnar Brands
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsbereich Alte Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/400139393?language=en
• 关键词: Procopius; language; buildings

“Procopius and the language of buildings" focuses on the 6th century Greek book De Aedificiis. This text is crucial for the understanding of the material culture of the early Byzantine Empire. A team of historians, philologists and archaeologists will analyze the text, recognize its narrative patterns, illustrate given structures, and illuminate the significance and limitations of the text for individual buildings and for entire regions. The applicants take for granted that just as images, buildings and materials with their visual messages present and promote the character of a reign, writing and talking about buildings has a similar potential. The project doesn’t center emperor Justinian’s (527-565) power as visualized in buildings and art but focuses on a text whose aim was precisely to create and imitate in words the signaling effect of material culture. With his text about the buildings Procopius almost enters into competition with the buildings themselves, setting high standards: he presents the enormous number of building measures, he describes the technical expertise and innovations involved, he emphasizes the soundness, beauty and creativity of Justinianic building. He grasps these topics with a creative use of traditional literary strategies and with new means of representation. This “language of buildings” is apt to express the power of the Roman emperor, the strength and durability of the Roman Empire, and to convince the reader of these concerns.The buildings Procopius selected for his text and the way in which he made them speak will be investigated in cultural, historical and archaeological terms. Against the background of the earlier constructions as well as in view of the many texts of Procopius virtual (or real) library, the “language of the Buildings”-project will help to decipher this material and literary heyday at the end of antiquity and the beginning of Byzantine culture and will contribute to a deeper understanding of this period. It will be discussed to what extent Procopius’ invoked state myth is based on the solid world of constructions and images, which, as it seems constitutes an important element of stability “visualizing” Justinian’s (built) world as based on divine order. In addition to the art-historical, architectural and cultural tasks, the organization of large-scale construction projects and the implementation of building law are in need of a detailed (re)examination as well as the central text itself needs more philological investigation than has been done e.g. on later (7th-12th c.) insertions and transformations of the text. Only recently (and for the first time), the authoritative early short text-version of De Aedificiis was edited by our colleague F. Montinaro, who is among the co-operation partners of our projects. In short: the goal of the project is to create an innovative and trend-setting historical and archaeological commentary of Procopius Buildings.

“普罗科匹厄斯和建筑语言”集中在6世纪世纪希腊书德Aedificis。这一文本对于理解早期拜占庭帝国的物质文化至关重要。一个由历史学家，语言学家和考古学家组成的团队将分析文本，识别其叙事模式，说明给定的结构，并阐明文本对单个建筑和整个地区的意义和局限性。申请人理所当然地认为，正如图像，建筑物和材料与他们的视觉信息呈现和促进一个统治的性格，写作和谈论建筑物有类似的潜力。该项目并不以查士丁尼皇帝（527-565）在建筑和艺术中的权力为中心，而是专注于一个文本，其目的正是创造和模仿物质文化的信号效应。普罗科匹厄斯的文字几乎与建筑本身竞争，设定了高标准：他提出了大量的建筑措施，他描述了技术专长和创新，他强调了查士丁尼建筑的稳健性，美感和创造力。他以创造性地运用传统文学策略和新的表现手段来把握这些主题。这种“建筑的语言”很容易表达罗马皇帝的权力，罗马帝国的力量和持久性，并说服读者这些问题。普罗科匹厄斯为他的文本选择的建筑以及他使它们说话的方式将从文化，历史和考古学的角度进行研究。在早期建筑的背景下，以及鉴于普罗科匹厄斯虚拟（或真实的）图书馆的许多文本，“建筑物的语言”项目将有助于破译古代结束和拜占庭文化开始时的物质和文学鼎盛时期，并将有助于更深入地了解这一时期。我们将讨论普罗科匹厄斯所援引的国家神话在多大程度上是建立在由建筑和意象构成的坚实世界的基础上的，因为它似乎构成了稳定的一个重要因素，将查士丁尼的（建造的）世界”可视化“为建立在神圣秩序的基础上。除了艺术历史、建筑和文化任务之外，大型建筑项目的组织和建筑法的实施需要详细（重新）审查，中心文本本身需要比后来（公元7 - 12年）更多的文献学研究。文本的插入和转换。直到最近（也是第一次），权威的早期短篇文本版本《论善》才由我们的同事F。Montinaro是我们项目的合作伙伴之一。简而言之：该项目的目标是创造一个创新和引领潮流的普罗科匹厄斯建筑的历史和考古评论。