1ST SYMPOSIUM OF MEDITERRANEAN

MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Wrocaw, March 17-18, 2016
The Mediterranean gave birth to great ancient and antique civilizations. The region retained its
primacy in the early Middle Ages. It became the arena of activity of the Byzantine Empire, the
representatives of the Latin world, the Arabs and the Turks.
Moreover, the Mediterranean was back then also the direction of expansion of peoples from the
North - the Scandinavians, Vikings, Rus and Normans. This resulted in, amongst others, permanent
expeditions of inhabitants of Eastern Europe to Constantinople, the emergence of Norman Kingdom
of Southern Italy and Sicily, and during the Crusades creation of the Principality of Antioch
dominated by the Normans.
(1) The presence of representatives of the North in the Mediterranean zone; (2) contacts of these
people with the representatives of the Byzantine civilization, the Latin and Islamic tradition, as well
as the legacy of the antiquity; (3) and the cultural context in which occurred studied phenomena are
the subjects of two research projects under the MEDITERRANEO programme. The topic of the first
of them is the presence of Scandinavians and the Rus in the Byzantine Empire, and of the second
the activity of the Normans in southern Italy.
The aim of the symposium is cyclical presentation of the results of research carried out under the
MEDITERRANEO programme, exchange of experience, results of research and discussion with
scholars conducting studies on sites covered by the MEDITERRANEO programme and in fields of
Mediterranean medieval studies including archaeology, history, philology, architecture,
numismatics, art history and religious studies.
The MEDITERRANEO project is led by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish
Academy of Sciences, Research Centre on Late Antiquity Culture and the Early Middle Ages in
Wrocaw in cooperation with scientific institutions in Turkey (Department of Archaeology of the
Kocaeli University, Department of Archaeology of the Selcuk University in Konya) and Italy
(Department of Archaeology, University of Palermo). It corresponds to Wrocaw tradition of
Byzantine studies, initiated in our city by George Ostrogorski and Mediterranean archaeology of the
Middle Ages created by Lech Leciejewicz.

PROGRAMME
1st DAY: 17 of March
10.00: Opening Ceremony
SESSION 1
Chair: Sawomir Modzioch
10.15: Wadysaw Duczko (Putusk): What made the Rus turn attention to Byzantium
10.45: Aleksander Musin (St. Petersburg): Archaeological evidences on the contacts between
Mediterranean region and Eastern Europe
11.15: Gociwit Malinowski (Wrocaw): Wawel Dragon reconsidered
11.45: Jacek Kociuk (Wrocaw): Early medieval market place in Abu Mina
12.15: Coffee break

SESSION 2
Chair: Aleksander Musin
12.45: engl Aydingn (Kocaeli): Kkekmece Lake's Basin (Bathonea) Excavations
13.15: Haldun Aydngn (Canakale): Transport via Bathonea from Mediterranaen to Black Sea in
Bronze Ages
13.45: Baej Stanisawski, Anna Kubicka (Wrocaw): Chronology of the Byzantine settlement
sequences in Kkekmece
14.15: Anna Czerepok (Wrocaw): Semiotic study of the Byzantine architectural details from
Kkekmece
15.00: Lunch
SESSION 3
Chair: Marcin Wooszyn
16.30: lk Kara (Izmir): Late Roman Amphora fragments with inscriptions and stemps from
Bathoneae
17.00: eniz Atik, Merve zkl (Stambul): Glass finds from Kkekmece Lake Basin
(Bathonea) Excavations
17.30: Hakan niz, Mazlum Mert Antika (Konya): Archaeological sonar surveys in two lagoons
of Turkey: Kkekmece (Stanbul) and Beymelek (Antalya)
18.00: Coffee break
SESSION 4
Chair: Gociwit Malinowski
18.15: Olga Wglarz (Wrocaw): Melantias identification and localisation of the ancient city
18.45: Konrad Szymaski (Wrocaw): Searching for localization of Church and District of St.
Mamas on the example of analysis Constantine Porphyrogenitus works
19.15: Tomasz Peech (Wrocaw): The cult of Saint Mamas in Langres
20.00: Dinner

2nd DAY: 18 of March

SESSION 5
Chair: Iryna Teslenko
10.00: Vladimir Zori (Palermo): Area presbiteriale nelle chiese del dominio normanno
10.30: Tadeusz Baranowski (Warsaw): Polish-Italian archaeological collaboration on the Middle
Ages archaeology
11.00: Sawomir Modzioch, Ewa Modzioch (Wrocaw): First results of the excavation of the
church of San Michele (Santa Maria di Campogrosso) in Altavilla Milicia (Sicily). Saison 2015
11.30: Coffee break
SESSION 6
Chair: Tadeusz Baranowski
12.00: Piotr Wroniecki, Marcin Jaworski (Warsaw): Non-invasive survey of the San Michele del
Golfo church
12.30: Anna Kubicka (Wrocaw): Theoretical reconstruction of St. Michele church in Altavilla
Milicia results of the field research in 2015
13.00: Oskar Struzik (Wrocaw): Masons marks from Altavilla Milicia and their utility in
establishing relative chronology

13.30: Lunch
SESSION 7
Chair: Wadysaw Duczko
15.00: Mateusz Bogucki (Warsaw): Byzantine coins found in Poland
15.30: Karol Kollinger (Warsaw): Pltasvarf puzzle - did Harald Sigurdsson three times rob the
palace of Basileus?
16.00: Jakub Morawiec (Katowice): Miklagardr in the medievial Icelandic literature
16.30: Arngrimur Vidalin (Reykiavik): Byzantium and the East in the worldview of medieval
North
17.00: Coffee break
SESSION 8
Chair: engl Aydingn
17.15: Marcin Bhm (Opole): The Role of port Bukaleon during regin of the Macedonian dynasty
17.45: Iryna Teslenko (Kiev): Byzantine Glazed Ceramics in Northern Black Sea Region at the
Beginning of the Italian Epoch in the Black Sea Trade (the 13th first half of the 14th centuries)
18.15: Maria Kasiska (Wrocaw): Byzantine churches in Tauric Chersonesus
Organizers:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
& Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, University of Wrocaw
Scientific Committee:
Professor dr hab. Sawomir Modzioch
dr hab. Baej Stanisawski
Professor dr hab. Gociwit Malinowski
dr hab. Tadeusz Baranowski
Place:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences
Wizienna St. 6, 50-118 Wrocaw
Contact:
Baej Stanisawski, e-mail st-wski@wp.pl