The present contribution aims at reviewing the available data on the Triclinium of the Nineteen couches. It is divided into three parts: the first is intended to overview the information that Byzantine authors have handed down to us about this great banquet hall; the second aims at proposing reconstructive hypotheses about its dimensions and architecture, as well as to investigate the material aspects related to the organisation of the banquet in late antiquity; the third part deals with the ceremonial functions that were performed in it. Contrary to what is usually assumed, the Triclinium was probably not a huge hall with nine apses on each side, but a rectangular hall with a final apse and akkoubita arranged along the perimeter walls. In terms of ritual, the Triclinium must have continued to be in use throughout the early Middle Ages, with a particular revival in the 10th century.

I. Baldini, S.C. (2021). Rituali di corte. Il Triclinio dei XIX Letti del Grande Palazzo di Costantinopoli. BYZANTINISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 114(1), 65-110.

Rituali di corte. Il Triclinio dei XIX Letti del Grande Palazzo di Costantinopoli

I. Baldini
;
S. Cosentino
2021

Abstract

The present contribution aims at reviewing the available data on the Triclinium of the Nineteen couches. It is divided into three parts: the first is intended to overview the information that Byzantine authors have handed down to us about this great banquet hall; the second aims at proposing reconstructive hypotheses about its dimensions and architecture, as well as to investigate the material aspects related to the organisation of the banquet in late antiquity; the third part deals with the ceremonial functions that were performed in it. Contrary to what is usually assumed, the Triclinium was probably not a huge hall with nine apses on each side, but a rectangular hall with a final apse and akkoubita arranged along the perimeter walls. In terms of ritual, the Triclinium must have continued to be in use throughout the early Middle Ages, with a particular revival in the 10th century.
2021
I. Baldini, S.C. (2021). Rituali di corte. Il Triclinio dei XIX Letti del Grande Palazzo di Costantinopoli. BYZANTINISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 114(1), 65-110.
I. Baldini, S. Cosentino
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