Archaeoacoustic Research of Ljubostinja and Naupara Medieval Monastic Churches

Đorđević, Zorana; Novković, Dragan

doi:10.1515/opar-2019-0018

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“…From the first decade of the 21 st century, one can single out the research by Panta (Pantelija) Nikolić, an associate of the CMS/IMSI 12 and SASA Institute of Technical Sciences, who co-authored a study in 2006, where he examined the frescoes of the Mileševa monastery, in cooperation with his Greek colleagues, utilising micro-analytical techniques (Zorba et al, 2006). In the following decades, a series of works by other authors were created, covering topics ranging from the phenomenon of light in iconography and modern approaches to icon analysis (Tomić, 2011;Tomić, Tomić, 2013;Tomić, 2012;Tomić, 2010;Tomić, 2015;Milovanović, Tomić, 2016;Tomić, Tomić, 2020;Peptenatu et al, 2022), to the acoustics of medieval monastic churches (Đorđević, Penezić, Dimitrijević, 2017;Đorđević, Novković, 2019).…”

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Desecularization of Serbian Society and the Study of Monastery Bricks (1981–1998)

Tomić

2023

Religija i tolerancija

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Changes in religiosity that took place in Serbia in the 1980s and 1990s have been a subject of sociological studies, but they can also be reviewed by having insight into paradigmatic research literature and scientific projects of the time. In the period of scarce publications about Orthodox heritage, and the rise of religious-theological publications, researchers from the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies of the University of Belgrade (CMS) and SASA investigated the composition and structure of Serbian monastery bricks. From 1981 to 1998, several publications on the topic of monastery bricks appeared, in which the academician and head of the CMS materials science group Momčilo Ristić had a prominent role. The work of the researchers gathered around the joint venture was motivated by their desire to explore national culture, tradition and history, and inspired by the durability of building materials and their aesthetic value. Realized at the time of desecularization, this project contributed to the promotion of Orthodox heritage in Serbia. The first phase involved medieval Serbian monasteries, while the second included the monasteries of Fruška Gora. The project whose conception and context are studied in this paper, is a connection of methods and techniques used by materials science on one side, with medieval studies, archaeology and history of art, architecture, science and technology studies on the other. For the CMS researchers, it was not a one-off initiative finished at the end of the last century, as this type of research continued throughout the first and the second decade of the 21 st century.

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Desecularization of Serbian Society and the Study of Monastery Bricks (1981–1998)

Tomić

2023

Religija i tolerancija

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Estimation of the Subjective Intelligibility With Superimposition of BN8 in the Environment of the Orthodox Church Built in the Moravian Style

Stojanović,

Milivojević,

Kostić

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2024 International Conference on Development and Application Systems (DAS)

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Intangible Mosaic of Sacred Soundscapes in Medieval Serbia

Đorđević

Novković²,

Dragišić³

2022

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Religious practice in Serbia has taken place using both indoors and outdoors sacred sites ever since the adoption of Christianity in medieval times. However, previous archaeoacoustic research was focused on historic church acoustics, excluding the open-air soundscapes of sacred sites. The goal of this review paper is to shed light on the varieties of sacred soundscapes that have supported the various needs of Orthodox Christian practice in medieval Serbia. First, in relation to the acoustic requirements of the religious service, we compare the acoustic properties of masonry and wooden churches based on the published archaeoacoustic studies of medieval churches and musicological studies of the medieval art of chanting. Second, we provide an overview of the ethnological and historical studies that address the outdoor sacred soundscapes and investigate the religious sound markers of large percussion instruments, such as bells and semantra, the open-air litany procession that has been practiced during the annual celebration of a patron saint’s day in rural areas, and the medieval assemblies that took place on the sacred sites. This paper finally points out that the archaeoacoustic studies of sacred soundscapes should not be limited to church acoustics but also include open-air sacred sites to provide a complete analysis of the aural environment of religious practice and thus contribute to understanding the acoustic intention of medieval builders, as well as the aural experience of both clergy and laity.

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Archaeoacoustic Research of Ljubostinja and Naupara Medieval Monastic Churches

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Desecularization of Serbian Society and the Study of Monastery Bricks (1981–1998)

Desecularization of Serbian Society and the Study of Monastery Bricks (1981–1998)

Estimation of the Subjective Intelligibility With Superimposition of BN8 in the Environment of the Orthodox Church Built in the Moravian Style

Intangible Mosaic of Sacred Soundscapes in Medieval Serbia

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