Armin F Bergmeier
Biographic Data
| ID | 5987407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Armin F Bergmeier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Armin F |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergmeier |
| SIGNATURE | BERGMEIER A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3588-3758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Pastiche Past. Medieval Venice’s Displays of Cultural Heritage and the Myth of Victory Trophies
This article is a cultural and intellectual history of the display of reused artefacts in medieval Venice. It studies the phenomenon of creating visual arrangements infused with history and heritage through the juxtaposition of old (or seemingly old) artefacts in a new context, a pastiche of distinct parts. I argue that while scholarship has long viewed Venetian spolia through the lens of victory, triumph and loot, evidence that connects single a…
Who Inherited Antiquity? The Concept of Cultural Continuity in the Seljuk and Early Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean
This article seeks to challenge enduring Western notions of cultural continuity with and ownership of the ancient and Byzantine past. Through a study of the public display of spolia in Anatolia before 1500, in the lands ruled by Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans, I show a deep investment of local peoples with their heritage. Fragmentary artifacts from the past – spolia – have rarely been discussed within the context of heritage debates. However, in t…
Histoires chrétiennes en images
The Movement of History
This article studies the crypt frescoes underneath Anagni Cathedral in relation to medieval concepts of time and linear teleology. It argues that the frescoes are not part of one coherent painting campaign but were rather executed in two distinct campaigns in the course of the twelfth century. The first plan envisioned the typological juxtaposition of scenes from biblical and postbiblical history. By contrast, the second phase demonstrates a tele…
Natural Disasters and Time
This contribution analyzes the rhetoric surrounding natural disasters in historiographic sources, challenging our assumptions about the eschatological nature of late antique and medieval historical consciousness. Contrary to modern expectations, a large number of late antique and medieval sources indicate that earthquakes and other natural disasters were understood as signs from God, relating to theophanic encounters or divine wrath in the presen…
Die Ausmalungen der Wiener Virgilkapelle. Die visuelle Kultur in Byzanz, im Kaukasus, in Syrien und Nordmesopotamien
This case study of the aniconic wall paintings – red-colored, monumental crosses from the mid-thirteenth century – in Vienna’s subterranean Chapel of St. Virgil demonstrates that, in the absence of written sources, artifacts can serve as historical documents. The article offers an alternative approach to the quest for historical context, exploring transcultural, cross-media, and diachronic visual comparisons. Since late antiquity, cross decoratio…
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Die Ausmalungen der Wiener Virgilkapelle. Die visuelle Kultur in Byzanz, im Kaukasus, in Syrien und Nordmesopotamien
This case study of the aniconic wall paintings – red-colored, monumental crosses from the mid-thirteenth century – in Vienna’s subterranean Chapel of St. Virgil demonstrates that, in the absence of written sources, artifacts can serve as historical documents. The article offers an alternative approach to the quest for historical context, exploring transcultural, cross-media, and diachronic visual comparisons. Since late antiquity, cross decoratio…
Natural Disasters and Time
This contribution analyzes the rhetoric surrounding natural disasters in historiographic sources, challenging our assumptions about the eschatological nature of late antique and medieval historical consciousness. Contrary to modern expectations, a large number of late antique and medieval sources indicate that earthquakes and other natural disasters were understood as signs from God, relating to theophanic encounters or divine wrath in the presen…
The Pastiche Past. Medieval Venice’s Displays of Cultural Heritage and the Myth of Victory Trophies
This article is a cultural and intellectual history of the display of reused artefacts in medieval Venice. It studies the phenomenon of creating visual arrangements infused with history and heritage through the juxtaposition of old (or seemingly old) artefacts in a new context, a pastiche of distinct parts. I argue that while scholarship has long viewed Venetian spolia through the lens of victory, triumph and loot, evidence that connects single a…
Who Inherited Antiquity? The Concept of Cultural Continuity in the Seljuk and Early Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean
This article seeks to challenge enduring Western notions of cultural continuity with and ownership of the ancient and Byzantine past. Through a study of the public display of spolia in Anatolia before 1500, in the lands ruled by Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans, I show a deep investment of local peoples with their heritage. Fragmentary artifacts from the past – spolia – have rarely been discussed within the context of heritage debates. However, in t…
Histoires chrétiennes en images
The Movement of History
This article studies the crypt frescoes underneath Anagni Cathedral in relation to medieval concepts of time and linear teleology. It argues that the frescoes are not part of one coherent painting campaign but were rather executed in two distinct campaigns in the course of the twelfth century. The first plan envisioned the typological juxtaposition of scenes from biblical and postbiblical history. By contrast, the second phase demonstrates a tele…
Byzantine Studies and History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (4 works) · Byzantine architecture (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cultural heritage (2 works) · Literature (2 works)