Antonio Carile

Antonio Carile (born April 12, 1940 in Pesaro ) is an Italian Medievalist and Byzantinist .

life and work

Antonio Rocco Carile attended the Lucio Accio high school in Pesaro and was a scholarship holder at the Collegium Augustinianum in Milan from 1959 to 1963 . He received his doctorate magna cum laude from the Catholic University of Milan in 1963 under Agostino Pertusi (1918–1979) . From 1964 to 1970 he was trained at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, initially as a scholarship holder, from 1965 as secretary of the Venezia e l'Oriente Institute of the Foundation. With Agostino Pertusi he built up the Byzantine library department there, and from 1967 to 1970 he was the editorial secretary of the Studi Veneziani . He continued to study with Pertusi, but also with the Dominican Father Raymond-Joseph Loenertz (1900–1976), a specialist in Franconian Greece, took on a position as libero docente (freelance lecturer) for medieval history in Bologna from 1971 to 1976, and was appointed professor to Bologna in 1976 . At the archive school of the Venice State Archives he followed the courses of Raimondo Morozzo della Rocca and Luigi Lanfranchi , at the Istituto Ellenico he got to know Sophia Antoniadis , Manusos Manusakas and Chryssa Maltezou . From 1979 he taught Byzantine history in Bologna. In 1996 he moved to the Ravenna headquarters .

In his publications, the focus was initially on the work of Nikephoros Bryennios , to whom he dedicated his first publication, but he soon turned to the entire corpus of sources of the Byzantine epoch, integrating mainly Venetian sources. He and a group of colleagues built an archive of unedited sources at the Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali of the Ateneo di Bologna at the Ravenna headquarters , for which 550,000 folia were digitized by 2009 alone . The group, led by Guido Grazioli and with the participation of Giorgio Vespignani, Antonella Parmeggiani, Andrea Nanetti, Cristina Carile, Anna Rosa Calderoni, Matteo Bezzi and Milena Manini (until 2005) was supported by contributions from Giovanni Palmeri, Sergio Rinaldi Tufo, Emilio Aleo, Luca Fiori expanded. Carile also initiated the Laboratorio di Cronache Veneziane e Ravennati Inedite at the same institute. This made Ravenna one of the most important centers for work on Byzantine and Venetian sources, to which, in addition to the stocks available there, the Biblioteca Classense acquired several legacies, such as the biblioteche Tommaso Bertelè , Eurialo De Michelis or A. Pertusi , which in Laboratorio are tagged.

In total, Carile published more than 279 printed works, including 28 monographs . His interests ranged from Byzantine and Venetian historiography to the Latin Empire to the socio-economic structures of Byzantium and its political theology, including the time from Justinian I to the paleologists . In essence, in his own historiography he dealt with the cultural constructions of the representation of power in the Middle Ages and with the dynamics of its concrete exercise.

Carile was and is a member of a number of institutions, including the Comitato Italiano of UNESCO ( Associazione Internazionale per lo Studio e la Diffusione delle Culture Slave ) (1980); in the Consiglio Direttivo of the Associazione Nazionale di Studi Bizantini (from 1980 to 1994); then it belonged to the Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo of Spoleto (since 1985), the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (1986), the Accademia delle Scienze of Bologna, Classe di Scienze Morali (as socio corrispondente from 1992 to 2002, since then as socio ordinario ), since 1990 the Archaiologike Hetaireia in Athens , then the local Foundation for Greek Culture (since 1993), the scientific committee of the Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia and that of Vizantijskij Vremmenik (2010 ). Since 1980 he has also been a member of the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici in Palermo.

Carile is philos of the Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e post-Bizantini in Venice (1999), since 2000 Professor honoris causa of the Lomonossow University Moscow . He is the founder and director of the Rivista di Bizantinistica and Bizantinistica magazines . Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Slavi and editor of the now thirty-volume series Quaderni di Bizantinistica . In 2000 he initiated the Corso di Archeologia Navale in Trapani , a course in naval archeology. In Spoleto he was a member of the Board of Directors from 2003–2006, 2006–2009 and 2009–2012. In total, he organized around 400 conferences.

For his services to Byzantine and Medieval Studies, he received the title of Professore Emerito in 2011 and became a member of the Academy of Athens in 2014.

Publications (selection)

• Il problema della identificazione del cesare Niceforo Briennio , in: Aevum 38 (1964) 74-83.
• Partitio terrarum Imperii Romanie , in: Studi Veneziani 7 (1965) 125–305.
• La cronachistica veneziana (secoli xiii-xvi) di fronte alla spartizione della Romania nel 1204 , Florence 1969.
• Salimbene e la sua opera storiografica , Bologna 1971, pp. XI-89.
• Per una storia dell'impero latino di Costantinopoli (1204–1261) , Bologna 1972.
• with Gina Fasoli : Documenti di storia feudale , Pàtron, 1974.
• La rendita feudale nella Morea latina del XIV secolo , Bologna 1974.
• Per una storia dell'Impero latino di Costantinopoli (1204–1261) , Pàtron, Bologna 1978.
• with Giorgio Fedalto, Roberta Budriesi: Le origini di Venezia , Pàtron, Bologna 1978.
• La formazione del ducato veneziano , in: Antonio Carile, Giorgio Fedalto: Le origini di Venezia , Pàtron, Bologna 1978, pp. 1-250.
• Giovanni di Nikious cronista bizantino-copto del VII secolo , in: Felix Ravenna 121-122 (1981) 36-88.
• with Franco Tonon: Le Origini della chiesa di Venezia , Edizioni studium cattolico veneziano, 1987.
• with Agostino Pertusi : Introduzione alla storia bizantina , Gamma, Bologna 1988.
• (Ed.): Storia di Ravenna. Volume 2: Dall'età bizantina all'età ottoniana , part volume 1: Territorio economia società (pp. VIII – 736), Venice 1991 and part volume 2: Ecclesiologia, cultura e arte (pp. VIII – 465), Venice 1992.
• Materiali di storia bizantina , Bologna 1994, reprint 2006.
• Il Caucaso e l'Impero bizantino (secoli VI-XI) , in: XLIIIa settimana di studio del CISAM Il Caucaso: cerniera fra culture dal Mediterraneo alla Persia (secoli IV-XI), 20.-26. April 1995 , Spoleto 1996, pp. 9-83.
• Immagine e realtà nel mondo bizantino , Editrice Lo Scarabeo, 2000.
• with Salvatore Cosentino: Storia della marineria bizantina , Lo Scarabeo, 2004.
• Teologia politica bizantina , Spoleto 2008, pp. XII– 443.
• with Andrej Nikolaevic Sacharov (ed.): I trattati dell'antica Russia con l'Impero Romano d'Oriente , Rome / Moscow 2011.

literature

• Giorgio Vespignani (ed.): Polidoro. Studi offerti ad Antonio Carile. Spoleto 2013.

Remarks

1. ↑ He dedicated an obituary to him: Agostino Pertusi (1918–1979): ritratto di un maestro , in: Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici, nuova serie 17–19 (1980–1982) 323–350.
2. ↑ In the Italian university system of that time, comparable to the habilitation and the position of a private lecturer.
3. ↑ At the time, the commission consisted of Gina Fasoli , Luigi Gatto, Giuseppe Martini, Ernesto Pontieri and Giuseppe Tabacco (p. 21).
4. ↑ The commission consisted of Ovidio Capitani , Emilio Cristiani, Luigi Galasso, Cinzio Violante , and Tommaso Zerbi.
5. ^ Antonio Carile: Il problema della identificazione del cesare Niceforo Briennio , in: Aevum 38 (1964), pp. 74-83; it was followed by Il cesare Niceforo Briennio , in: Aevum 42 (1968) 429–454 and La Hyle Historias del cesare Niceforo Briennio , in: Aevum 43 (1969) 56–87, 236–282 (the 'Hyle Historias' was about 'Materials for a Story').
6. ↑ ISSBI member list ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Antonio Carile , website of the University of Bologna
• Antonio Carile. Le opere ei giorni , website of the University of Bologna (PDF)
• Carile, Antonio .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Antonio Carile. Le opere ei giorni 1964–2018 , academia.edu