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Adrio-byzantism reconsidered, and the problem of continuity between late antiquity and the early middle ages

The aim of the paper is the revision of two major theses Dyggve exposed in his History of Salonitan Christianity: the problem of continuity / discontinuity between late antiquity and the early middle ages in the former roman province of Dalmatia, and Adrio-Byzantism as a phenomenon characteristic for the Adriatic area in late antiquity. The question of continuity / discontinuity has, at the time, raised a serious discussion between art historians and archaeologists, being in the focus of every debate as the most important issue in the fifties. As we know today, Dyggve’s continuity was later adopted by scholars. On the other hand, the term Adrio-Byzantism, forged by Dyggve, has been used without real comprehension of its meaning, as Dyggve initially meant. Today its value has to be reconsidered, and finally the term abandoned as meaningless for late antiquity ; it could thus be used for a different artistic expression, the byzantine influence transferred through Venice in the late middle ages.

adrio-byzantism; art; late antiquity; early middle ages

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