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{"title":"THE TROIA CHRONICLE AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL PRODUCTION IN MEDIEVAL PUGLIA","authors":"P. Oldfield","doi":"10.1017/s0068246221000234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068246221000234","url":null,"abstract":"Historiographical production within twelfth-century Puglia seems to have been markedly limited, and this frustrates attempts to access internal perspectives on a region which played a pivotal socio-political and economic role within southern Italy as it fell under Norman rule, and was subsequently absorbed into the new Kingdom of Sicily in 1130. It might, however, be possible to bolster the region's twelfth-century historiographical outputs if we were to include a largely overlooked and problematic source, the so-called Fragmentary Troia Chronicle. It is a short, hybridized and fragmented Latin text usually assumed to be late twelfth-century as a result of its chronological coverage. It consists of an annalistic-style account of political and religious events mostly of relevance to the northern Pugliese city of Troia and its bishopric, and ostensibly covers 1014 to 1124/7. It is accompanied by what also seems to be an appendix of documents (some dated later than the annalistic section) associated with the city's bishopric. This article therefore offers the first extended analysis of the Troia Chronicle's place within Pugliese historiographical production. It revisits questions around its authenticity, examines potential contexts surrounding its production and content, and provides the first English translation of the narrative section of the chronicle. In so doing, it argues that we must tread carefully when using this source, but that the Troia Chronicle's existence and its main chronological focus could at the very least hold significance as a marker of an enduring remembrance of a vibrant era of episcopal, literary and urban development in this Pugliese city in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.","PeriodicalId":44228,"journal":{"name":"Papers of the British School at Rome","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46163501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EXPEDITIONS FROM ROME: THOMAS ASHBY, HIS BSR COMPANIONS AND THE ROMAN ROADS OF ITALY","authors":"J. Wade","doi":"10.1017/s0068246221000246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068246221000246","url":null,"abstract":"In the early twentieth century, Thomas Ashby published extensively on the Roman roads of Italy. The BSR Director was determined to create a lasting record of the ancient Roman road network before it was lost forever. Yet Ashby's research vision was grand and it was too ambitious a task for one man to accomplish on his own. This paper investigates the crucial role of BSR scholars in Ashby's research. It discusses his relationship with the community of residents and scholars at the BSR in the pre- and post-World War I years, especially those with whom he collaborated in order to survey, map and record the Roman roads and their surrounding countryside. Focus is given to Ashby's research on roads like the Via Flaminia and Via Appia as this work highlights his methodology, the collegial environment at the BSR during his directorship, and his successful collaboration with award-holders. To date, the role of these BSR scholars has largely been underrated. Yet there were BSR award-holders — historians, archaeologists and architects — who helped to keep Ashby's research vision alive. Without them, he could not have produced such a comprehensive and impressive body of work on Italy's Roman roads.","PeriodicalId":44228,"journal":{"name":"Papers of the British School at Rome","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45484563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ROME TRANSFORMED: INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF THE EASTERN CAELIAN (ROME)","authors":"I. Haynes, P. Liverani, F. Carboni, Thea Ravasi, S. Kay, S. Piro, Gianfrano Morelli","doi":"10.1017/S0068246221000088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246221000088","url":null,"abstract":"The ongoing off-site analysis of data captured in the field prior to early March 2020 and a range of equally essential work on archival sources and database development kept team members fully occupied. The British School at Rome team, led by Stephen Kay, used two Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) antennas, a 400 MHz and 200 MHz;the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche team, led by Salvatore Piro, deployed GPR with a 70 MHz monostatic antenna and a GSSI 300/800 MHz dual-frequency digital antenna;and Geostudi Astier, led by Gianfranco Morelli, operated GPR with the IDS Stream multi-channel system, surveying between them a wide-ranging set of targets. Coordination of this work required not only the generous help of many key Roman stakeholders, more fully acknowledged below, but also a good understanding of the history of investigation at each location, something being further developed through archival research and data sharing with SITAR (https://www.archeositarproject.it/), the latter project led by Mirella Serlorenzi, and the Archivio Centrale dello Stato where, thanks to Mirco Modolo, we got the opportunity to work on the important documents that form part of Edoardo and Guglielmo Gatti's archive. [...]all three teams converged to take a combined approach to GPR and ERT.","PeriodicalId":44228,"journal":{"name":"Papers of the British School at Rome","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48832728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"NOTES FROM ROME 2020–21","authors":"Robert Coates-Stephens","doi":"10.1017/s0068246221000209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068246221000209","url":null,"abstract":"This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (June 2020 – July 2021) gleaned from public lectures, conferences, exhibitions, and newspaper reports.","PeriodicalId":44228,"journal":{"name":"Papers of the British School at Rome","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48034972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rome Fellowships: Latin signori in a diverse land: del Balzo Orsini art and architecture in late medieval southern Italy (c. 1350–1450)","authors":"M. Harvey","doi":"10.1017/s0068246221000143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068246221000143","url":null,"abstract":"number of relevant manuscripts at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana alone has now increased to nearly 30. This number increases further still when other Italian libraries and archives are added to the mix, as well as those manuscripts that have been identified recently as containing medical material and that were originally produced in Italian scriptoria (even if today they are located outside of Italy). As a result of this major growth in manuscript evidence, thanks in part to suggestions from researchers in the BSR community, my work has focused primarily on the identification, transcription, editing and initial (qualitative) analysis of recipes. This research lays the foundation for quantitative, digital analyses that I shall continue to pursue in my Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at the University of Sheffield (2021–4). Given that the project is ongoing, I shall only offer a brief selection of my initial findings and conclusions. First, I have identified additional examples of newly recorded ingredients, such as various eastern resins and spices. Space does not permit me to review these findings in detail, but I intend that they will form the basis of a future publication. In addition to identifying new ingredients in the recipe literature, my research has focused on investigating how this knowledge (and the ingredients themselves) moved. At this stage, I have considered a number of possible networks that facilitated this movement, including Byzantine and Abbasid merchants and diplomats, as well as Radhanite traders, though more research must be pursued in each of these areas. That being said, different types of evidence (with varying strengths) have emerged in support of each of these networks. On this basis, I would suggest that (a) the entry of this pharmaceutical knowledge (and the substances themselves) into the Italian peninsula likely involved all of these groups to some extent, with certain links stronger at particular times and places than others; and (b) the Abbasid’s expansion of power and trading links in the east ultimately underpins any of the developments that can be traced in the west. Regarding sites of contact and exchange, it seems that centres in northern Italy, including Ravenna (waning yet still symbolically powerful and linked to the Greek east) and Venice (beginning to grow), likely played a central role, acting as gateways to both Rome and northern Italian scriptoria via ecclesiastical, intellectual, diplomatic and commercial networks. I look forward to pursuing this research further in Sheffield and hope to share more results in Papers of the British School at Rome before long.","PeriodicalId":44228,"journal":{"name":"Papers of the British School at Rome","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48529741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ROM volume 89 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0068246221000210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068246221000210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44228,"journal":{"name":"Papers of the British School at Rome","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42586499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rome Scholarship and Residential Research Fellowship: The movement of early medieval medical knowledge: exchange in the Italian peninsula","authors":"C. Burridge","doi":"10.1017/S0068246221000131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246221000131","url":null,"abstract":"[...]the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in some changes to various aspects of my research plan, but I am happy to report that, thanks to the digitisation of many manuscripts, I was incredibly fortunate in being able to continue with much of my work even when unable to visit libraries in person. [...]of this major growth in manuscript evidence, thanks in part to suggestions from researchers in the BSR community, my work has focused primarily on the identification, transcription, editing and initial (qualitative) analysis of recipes. In addition to identifying new ingredients in the recipe literature, my research has focused on investigating how this knowledge (and the ingredients themselves) moved.","PeriodicalId":44228,"journal":{"name":"Papers of the British School at Rome","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42213666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rome Fellowships: Between empire and exile: Cypriot nobles between the Regno di Cipro and Venice","authors":"Georgios E. Markou","doi":"10.1017/s0068246221000155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068246221000155","url":null,"abstract":"southern Italy (c. 1350–1450)’ would have entailed travelling throughout the peninsula, to try to reconstruct the patronage of a family that was once powerful enough credibly to challenge the Neapolitan throne in the mid-1400s. It would have meant visiting a number of sites in Puglia, especially Lecce, where the del Balzo Orsini court was based, and Taranto, the capital of the Principality (the del Balzo Orsini being princes of Taranto in 1399–1406 and 1420–63). I wanted to understand whether there was continuity across the family’s commissions, which spanned Provence, Rome, Naples and its hinterland, and the Salento. In other words, I wanted to contextualise Santa Caterina — by far the most important and best preserved of the del Balzo Orsini commissions — within the family’s patronage. At the same time, my research is anchored in the belief that the meaning of a work of art derives from its reception and not just its patronage. Thus, how did the different communities that lived in southern Italy and Provence understand the art of their signorial lords? How were questions of identity articulated by viewers and patrons alike? How did these identities change as the des Baux became del Balzo and married into the Orsini clan? The pandemic restrictions made this impossible, as travel became difficult, and archives, museums and sites closed. I took some time to reorient myself, and understand how to benefit the most from the time I had at the BSR. The paper I gave at the BSR, on how Greek Salentine communities may have understood the cycle of the Book of Revelation in Santa Caterina, helped me immensely in terms of shaping the contours of my book. Thus, the monograph will now concentrate exclusively on the Greek minority and its reception of the frescoes of Franciscan Santa Caterina. Two chapters will expand on my paper, looking at how ideas of individual and communal Salvation may have been articulated in the interpretation of the frescoes. Then, I turn to the question of Greek Salentine identity, which both post-Tridentine officials and modern scholars have read as ‘Orthodox’. The Graeci, however, expressly stated that they were descendants of Athenians. By reconstructing a minority’s interpretations of art, I hope to challenge art history’s traditional preference for artists and patrons, which necessarily favours those in power. As in 2016, the support of the BSR and the possibility to use the excellent library have been indispensable. I want to thank everyone for making my time at the BSR so productive and rewarding, especially during the extended lockdown.","PeriodicalId":44228,"journal":{"name":"Papers of the British School at Rome","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47570634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Balsdon Fellowship: Roman relics and Renaissance collectors 1350–1550","authors":"H. Schadee","doi":"10.1017/s006824622100012x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s006824622100012x","url":null,"abstract":"The curia, an international job market and melting pot of ideas, was indisputably a driving force in the renewed appreciation for the Roman heritage. [...]I decided to approach my research as the reconstruction of a network of individuals and families with antiquarian interests. During the final weeks of my Fellowship, I sought to complement this material evidence with a study of the literary descriptions of Rome produced in Cencio's circle.","PeriodicalId":44228,"journal":{"name":"Papers of the British School at Rome","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47505391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE ROMAN PORTS PROJECT FIELDWORK AT PORTUS (COMUNE DI FIUMICINO, PROVINCIA DI ROMA, REGIONE LAZIO)","authors":"Simon Keay, Stephen Kay, Elena Pomar","doi":"10.1017/S006824622100009X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S006824622100009X","url":null,"abstract":"Ian Haynes, Paolo Liverani, Francesca Carboni, Thea Ravasi, Stephen Kay, Salvatore Piro and Gianfrano Morelli (Newcastle University; Università degli studi di Firenze; Newcastle University; Newcastle University; British School at Rome; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; GeoStudi Astier) ian.haynes@newcastle.ac.uk; paolo.liverani@unifi.it; Francesca.Carboni@newcastle.ac.uk; thea.ravasi@newcastle.ac.uk; s.kay@bsrome.it; salvatore.piro@cnr.it; gf.morelli70@gmail. com","PeriodicalId":44228,"journal":{"name":"Papers of the British School at Rome","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45324266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}