Philipp Niewöhner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5704358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philipp Niewöhner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philipp |
| FAMILY NAME | Niewöhner |
| SIGNATURE | NIEWÖHNER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-4564-8318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diversity in Late Antique Christianity
This paper considers archaeological evidence for various aspects of early Christian church building and comes to the conclusion that diversity was an essential quality of late antique Christianity. The diversity in question is ill-attested in written sources, but becomes apparent when the material record and everyday life are taken into consideration (cultural/material/pictorial/iconic turn). Church buildings looked and functioned differently in …
Alexander the Great engineer and inventor. Elite representation in western Asia Minor and early Byzantine origins of the later Romance tradition and iconography
Article Alexander the Great engineer and inventor. Elite representation in western Asia Minor and early Byzantine origins of the later Romance tradition and iconography was published on September 1, 2023 in the journal Byzantinische Zeitschrift (volume 116, issue 3)
The episcopal palace of Parnassos in Cappadocia and its Early Byzantine floor mosaics
The Roman mansio or way station and Byzantine bishopric of Parnassos in Cappadocia is chiefly known through inscriptions and bishops’ lists and identified with the small Turkish village of Parlasan/Değirmenyolu. It came as a surprise when a salvage excavation unearthed a large building with sumptuous floor mosaics beyond the outskirts of the village. Previous excavation reports misrepresented the building as a basilica church, when it was in fact…
A Hidden Agenda of Imperial Appropriation and Power Play? Iconological Considerations Concerning Apse Images and Their Role in the Iconoclast Controversy
According to the written sources, the Iconoclast controversy was all about the veneration of icons. It started in the late seventh century, after most iconodule provinces had been lost to Byzantine rule, and lasted until the turn of the millennium or so, when icon veneration became generally established in the remaining parts of the Byzantine Empire. However, as far as material evidence and actual images are concerned, the Iconoclast controversy …
Church Building and Wine Making East of Ankara. Regional Aspects of Central Anatolia in the Early Byzantine Period
This paper reports early Byzantine carvings and inscriptions that were found in a survey of the eastern vicinity of Ankara/Ancyra in Galatia. Some fluted column capitals can be attributed to liturgical furnishings of early Christian churches. Some weights for wine presses are likewise decorated with Christian symbols and inscriptions. A cluster of finds from Kalecik/Malos echoes the fourth-century Life of St Theodotus of Ancyra. The symbol of a c…
Byzantinisch“ oder „germanisch“? Zur Ambivalenz wilhelminischer Mosaiken am Beispiel der Erlöserkirche in Bad Homburg
The Erlöserkirche at Bad Homburg was built between 1903 and 1908 at the instigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II. It combines a neo-Romanesque exterior with Norman-Sicilian mosaics inside. Both were „Germanic“ to the emperor, and the church embodied his all encompassing claim to the tradition of the medieval Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Alternatively, the contemporary Byzantinist Ernst Gerland pointed to a Byzantine origin of the Norman-Sicili…
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Emanuele Intagliata, Simon J. Barker & Christopher Courault. 2020. City walls in late antiquity
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The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia
International audience
Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia
"This book accounts for the tumultuous period of the fifth to eleventh centuries from the Fall of Rome and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire through the breakup of the Eastern Roman Empire and loss of pan-Mediterranean rule, until the Turks arrived and seized Anatolia. The volume is divided into a dozen syntheses that each addresses an issue of intrigue for the archaeology of Anatolia, and two dozen case studies on single sites that exempl…
Urs Peschlow , with a contribution by Wolfram Brandes . Ankara
Urs Peschlow , with a contribution by Wolfram Brandes . Ankara: Die bauarchäologischen Hinterlassenschaften aus römischer und byzantinischer Zeit. 2015. Volume 1: 306 pages; Volume 2: 586 b&w and colour illustrations. Vienna: Phoibos; 978-3-85161-132-8 hardback €129. - Volume 90 Issue 353
Discovery of a Byzantine Church in Iznik/Nicaea, Turkey
The city of Iznik, called Nikaia or Nicaea in ancient times, is located in northwest Anatolia, Turkey. Nicaea is renowned especially for the first Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman emperor Constantine in ad 325 in an attempt to unify the Church. During an international field course on the geophysical exploration of archaeological targets we detected the remains of a small previously unknown Byzantine church on a fallow lot of land inside th…
Bronze Age höyüks, Iron Age hilltop forts, Roman poleis and Byzantine pilgrimage in Germia and its vicinity. ‘Connectivity’ and a lack of ‘definite places’ on the central Anatolian high plateau
Germia was a well-connected Byzantine polis in western-central Anatolia, famous for its healing waters and a church of St Michael. After three years of survey the site can now be reconstructed: it included several other churches and monasteries, but little space for ordinary residential buildings. This comes as a surprise, but can be explained by the discovery of two older Roman cities within walking-distance of Germia, where the ordinary people …
Discovery of a Byzantine Church in Iznik/Nicaea, Turkey
The city of Iznik, called Nikaia or Nicaea in ancient times, is located in northwest Anatolia, Turkey. Nicaea is renowned especially for the first Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman emperor Constantine in ad 325 in an attempt to unify the Church. During an international field course on the geophysical exploration of archaeological targets we detected the remains of a small previously unknown Byzantine church on a fallow lot of land inside th…
Bronze Age höyüks, Iron Age hilltop forts, Roman poleis and Byzantine pilgrimage in Germia and its vicinity. ‘Connectivity’ and a lack of ‘definite places’ on the central Anatolian high plateau
Germia was a well-connected Byzantine polis in western-central Anatolia, famous for its healing waters and a church of St Michael. After three years of survey the site can now be reconstructed: it included several other churches and monasteries, but little space for ordinary residential buildings. This comes as a surprise, but can be explained by the discovery of two older Roman cities within walking-distance of Germia, where the ordinary people …
Discovery of a Byzantine Church in Iznik/Nicaea, Turkey
The city of Iznik, called Nikaia or Nicaea in ancient times, is located in northwest Anatolia, Turkey. Nicaea is renowned especially for the first Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman emperor Constantine in ad 325 in an attempt to unify the Church. During an international field course on the geophysical exploration of archaeological targets we detected the remains of a small previously unknown Byzantine church on a fallow lot of land inside th…
Urs Peschlow , with a contribution by Wolfram Brandes . Ankara
Urs Peschlow , with a contribution by Wolfram Brandes . Ankara: Die bauarchäologischen Hinterlassenschaften aus römischer und byzantinischer Zeit. 2015. Volume 1: 306 pages; Volume 2: 586 b&w and colour illustrations. Vienna: Phoibos; 978-3-85161-132-8 hardback €129. - Volume 90 Issue 353
The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia
International audience
Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia
"This book accounts for the tumultuous period of the fifth to eleventh centuries from the Fall of Rome and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire through the breakup of the Eastern Roman Empire and loss of pan-Mediterranean rule, until the Turks arrived and seized Anatolia. The volume is divided into a dozen syntheses that each addresses an issue of intrigue for the archaeology of Anatolia, and two dozen case studies on single sites that exempl…
Byzantinisch“ oder „germanisch“? Zur Ambivalenz wilhelminischer Mosaiken am Beispiel der Erlöserkirche in Bad Homburg
The Erlöserkirche at Bad Homburg was built between 1903 and 1908 at the instigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II. It combines a neo-Romanesque exterior with Norman-Sicilian mosaics inside. Both were „Germanic“ to the emperor, and the church embodied his all encompassing claim to the tradition of the medieval Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Alternatively, the contemporary Byzantinist Ernst Gerland pointed to a Byzantine origin of the Norman-Sicili…
Tafelanhang
Emanuele Intagliata, Simon J. Barker & Christopher Courault. 2020. City walls in late antiquity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Hidden Agenda of Imperial Appropriation and Power Play? Iconological Considerations Concerning Apse Images and Their Role in the Iconoclast Controversy
According to the written sources, the Iconoclast controversy was all about the veneration of icons. It started in the late seventh century, after most iconodule provinces had been lost to Byzantine rule, and lasted until the turn of the millennium or so, when icon veneration became generally established in the remaining parts of the Byzantine Empire. However, as far as material evidence and actual images are concerned, the Iconoclast controversy …
Church Building and Wine Making East of Ankara. Regional Aspects of Central Anatolia in the Early Byzantine Period
This paper reports early Byzantine carvings and inscriptions that were found in a survey of the eastern vicinity of Ankara/Ancyra in Galatia. Some fluted column capitals can be attributed to liturgical furnishings of early Christian churches. Some weights for wine presses are likewise decorated with Christian symbols and inscriptions. A cluster of finds from Kalecik/Malos echoes the fourth-century Life of St Theodotus of Ancyra. The symbol of a c…
Diversity in Late Antique Christianity
This paper considers archaeological evidence for various aspects of early Christian church building and comes to the conclusion that diversity was an essential quality of late antique Christianity. The diversity in question is ill-attested in written sources, but becomes apparent when the material record and everyday life are taken into consideration (cultural/material/pictorial/iconic turn). Church buildings looked and functioned differently in …
Alexander the Great engineer and inventor. Elite representation in western Asia Minor and early Byzantine origins of the later Romance tradition and iconography
Article Alexander the Great engineer and inventor. Elite representation in western Asia Minor and early Byzantine origins of the later Romance tradition and iconography was published on September 1, 2023 in the journal Byzantinische Zeitschrift (volume 116, issue 3)
The episcopal palace of Parnassos in Cappadocia and its Early Byzantine floor mosaics
The Roman mansio or way station and Byzantine bishopric of Parnassos in Cappadocia is chiefly known through inscriptions and bishops’ lists and identified with the small Turkish village of Parlasan/Değirmenyolu. It came as a surprise when a salvage excavation unearthed a large building with sumptuous floor mosaics beyond the outskirts of the village. Previous excavation reports misrepresented the building as a basilica church, when it was in fact…
History (11 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Byzantine architecture (8 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (7 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (6 works) · Classics (6 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Empire (4 works)