Reception halls can be considered the most important architectural and often (/ then), symbolic and ideological spaces in Mediterranean palace complexes of many historical periods. Whether aulae regiae of Roman times, medieval salae of European Carolingian ancestry, Sasanian iwans or, as is the case here, Ayyubid halls (qā'ah), the reception rooms reflect simultaneously functional requirements and elements of the palatine Protocol, both closely related to specific modes of the exercise of power. The proposed analysis aims to illustrate the process of creating the space of manifestation par excellence of the top functions of Government, in Ayyubid southern Jordan, through the methods of Light Archeology used by the Medieval Petra Italian Archaeological Mission (University of Florence). The case studies considered will be those of castra/Qal'at Shawbak and Kerak in the late 12th and mid-13th century, in order to highlight the relationship between Great and Little Traditions of building and architectural construction of princely building sites implanted on top of the vestiges of former Latin palaces of the 12th century Lordship of Transjordan.

Ayyubid reception halls in southern Jordan: towards a ‘Light Archaeology’ of political powers / MIchele Nucciotti; Lorenzo Fragai. - STAMPA. - (2019), pp. 0-20.

Ayyubid reception halls in southern Jordan: towards a ‘Light Archaeology’ of political powers

MIchele Nucciotti
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2019

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Reception halls can be considered the most important architectural and often (/ then), symbolic and ideological spaces in Mediterranean palace complexes of many historical periods. Whether aulae regiae of Roman times, medieval salae of European Carolingian ancestry, Sasanian iwans or, as is the case here, Ayyubid halls (qā'ah), the reception rooms reflect simultaneously functional requirements and elements of the palatine Protocol, both closely related to specific modes of the exercise of power. The proposed analysis aims to illustrate the process of creating the space of manifestation par excellence of the top functions of Government, in Ayyubid southern Jordan, through the methods of Light Archeology used by the Medieval Petra Italian Archaeological Mission (University of Florence). The case studies considered will be those of castra/Qal'at Shawbak and Kerak in the late 12th and mid-13th century, in order to highlight the relationship between Great and Little Traditions of building and architectural construction of princely building sites implanted on top of the vestiges of former Latin palaces of the 12th century Lordship of Transjordan.
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Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan XIII
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MIchele Nucciotti; Lorenzo Fragai
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