Commemorating the Dead in Early Byzantium

纪念拜占庭早期的死者

• 批准号: 2238542
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2238542
• 关键词: Commemorating; Dead; Early; Byzantium

Death was the one transition that every Byzantine experienced, but it is a topic which awaits systematic study. My thesis will offer the first examination of early Byzantine burials, grave goods, and practices for remembering the dead (4th-7th centuries). This is important because beliefs surrounding death function as a kind of litmus test that allow us to examine the importance of tradition, kinship structures, beliefs about the afterlife, the way religion is used to structure interaction with absence, and the role of material goods in commemorating the dead and the construction of social memory. In the early Byzantine world, these beliefs also allow us to dissect the relationship between traditional pagan practice and emerging Christian culture. Although a recent study on death and the afterlife has examined related areas within later Byzantine thought (Marinis 2017), work on the early period consists primarily of archaeologicalreports on specific burial sites (e.g. el-Khouri 2010), rather than examinations of varying ideological and cultural understandings of death.This study implements a cross-disciplinary methodology and builds upon my specialist training in a broad range of sources and methodologies (including gender). Exploiting textual and material evidence, I investigate grave goods and funerals to explore early Byzantine rituals of death and the transition of the soul into the next world. At the centre of this project is an analysis of how this transition was marked and experienced across all socio-economic groups in a number of regional contexts.My MA dissertation examined magic and apotropaic Byzantine objects, which provided the requisite research skills for PhD research. This augmented my strong language skills which include Byzantine Greek, which I will continue to develop by attending the Byzantine Greek summer school in 2019, as well as relevant modern European languages (French and German).

死亡是每一个拜占庭人都经历过的一个过渡，但这是一个有待系统研究的话题。我的论文将提供第一次检查早期拜占庭墓葬，墓葬用品，并为纪念死者（4 - 7世纪）的做法。这一点很重要，因为围绕死亡的信念起到了某种试金石的作用，使我们能够检查传统的重要性，亲属关系结构，关于来世的信念，宗教用于构建与缺席互动的方式，以及物质商品在纪念死者和构建社会记忆中的作用。在早期的拜占庭世界，这些信仰也让我们能够剖析传统的异教实践和新兴的基督教文化之间的关系。尽管最近一项关于死亡和来世的研究考察了后期拜占庭思想中的相关领域，（Marinis 2017），早期的工作主要包括对特定埋葬地点的考古报告（例如，el-Khouri 2010年），而不是对不同意识形态和文化对死亡的理解的考察。这项研究实施了一个跨-学科方法，并建立在我的专业培训，在广泛的来源和方法（包括性别）。我利用文本和物质证据，调查坟墓和葬礼，以探索早期拜占庭的死亡仪式和灵魂进入下一个世界的过渡。在这个项目的中心是一个如何在所有的社会经济群体在一些区域context.My硕士论文研究了魔术和apotropaic拜占庭对象，这为博士研究提供了必要的研究技能的标记和经验，这种转变的分析。这增强了我的语言能力，包括拜占庭希腊语，我将在2019年参加拜占庭希腊语暑期学校，以及相关的现代欧洲语言（法语和德语）继续发展。