Qalat Seman and Resafa/Sergiupolis: Two Early Byzantine Pilgrimage CentersMorgensterni Seltsi toimetised = Acta Societatis Morgensternianae 2Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/FE8VT7K8/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MarkusBogischQalat Seman and Resafa/Sergiupolis: Two Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Centershttp://syriaca.org/cbss/FE8VT7K8https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/FE8VT7K8https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/FE8VT7K8IvoVoltJanikaPällByzantino-Nordica 2004: Papers Presented at the International Symposium of Byzantine Studies held on 7–11 May 2004 in Tartu, EstoniaTartuTartu University Press200552-72Morgensterni Seltsi toimetised = Acta Societatis Morgensternianae 2This paper deals with the Early Byzantine pilgrimage centres at Qalat Seman and Resafa/Sergiupolis in northern Syria. Although both shrines were built roughly at the same time (ca. 470–90), they greatly differ in their architectural layout: the socalled martyrium at Qalat Seman consists of four basilicas that are arranged around an octagonal centrepiece which frames the column of St Symeon the Elder, while the pilgrimage church at Resafa is designed as a more conventional, if monumental basilica. This is partly explainable by the varying objects of veneration, partly by the different prototypes on which the two shrines were modelled. In the following, the foundation of the pilgrimage centre at Qalat Seman is assigned to the Byzantine Emperor Zeno (474–5/476–91), and the hypothesis is put forward that the basilica “A” at Resafa, to which the relics of St Sergius were transferred in the last decades of the 5th century, was erected due to the combined initiative of Zeno and Philoxenos, the bishop of Mabbuk. Both pilgrimage centres turned out to be an enormous success proving the validity of the concept to visualise the symbolical power inherent in holy places like Qalat Seman and Resafa by means of monumental architecture.
Bogisch, Markus. “Qalat Seman and Resafa/Sergiupolis: Two Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Centers.” In Byzantino-Nordica 2004: Papers Presented at the International Symposium of Byzantine Studies Held on 7–11 May 2004 in Tartu, Estonia, edited by Ivo Volt and Janika Päll, 52–72. Morgensterni Seltsi Toimetised = Acta Societatis Morgensternianae 2. Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2005.
Markus Bogisch, Qalat Seman and Resafa/Sergiupolis: Two Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Centers, in Byzantino-Nordica 2004: Papers Presented at the International Symposium of Byzantine Studies Held on 7–11 May 2004 in Tartu, Estonia, ed. Ivo Volt and Janika Päll, Morgensterni Seltsi Toimetised = Acta Societatis Morgensternianae 2 (Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2005), 52–72.Byzantine SyriaQalat SimanRusafaV CEarchitecturechurchespilgrimage