La thèse consiste en l’édition des lettres grecques des archives de Dioscore d’Aphrodité (Égypte, VIe s. apr. J.-C.), qui constituent le plus important ensemble papyrologique d'époque byzantine connu de nos jours. Quatre-vingt-cinq documents y sont présentés sous la forme d'une nouvelle édition – ou, dans le cas de textes inédits, d'une première édition –, qui s'accompagne d'une traduction et d'un commentaire. La mise en parallèle des textes souvent fragmentaires du corpus, dont les pièces demeurent dispersées dans les collections du monde entier suite à la découverte clandestine des archives, a en outre permis de raccorder certains fragments encore inédits à des pièces déjà répertoriées, et de contribuer ainsi à la restitution d'un texte plus complet. Au-delà de l'aspect philologique, l’apport de cette documentation est aussi bien culturel qu’historique : elle permet d’éclairer l’arrière-plan multilingue en comparant la correspondance officielle écrite en grec avec la correspondance privée des mêmes archives, qui était de préférence rédigée en copte, ainsi qu'en analysant les pratiques d'écritures de certains scribes bilingues ; elle révèle les modalités épistolaires et les usages propres à la pratique écrite de l’administration ; elle dévoile les différents problèmes, matériels ou financiers, auxquels un village de Moyenne-Égypte devait faire face dans son quotidien ; enfin, elle contribue à la connaissance des institutions administratives et des rapports entre instances centrales et locales un siècle avant la conquête arabo-musulmane de l'Égypte. / The dissertation concerns the edition and the study of the Greek letters belonging to the archive of Dioscorus of Aphrodite (Egypt, VI CE), the largest papyrological ensemble of the Byzantine age. Eighty-five documents are analyzed and highlighted by virtue of a new edition - or, when it comes to unpublished texts, of a first edition - followed by a translation and a commentary. Moreover, the study of the corpus, which is scattered across different collections around the world as a consequence of the clandestine discovery of the archive, allowed to join some unpublished fragments to some already known texts and to reconstruct, in this way, a more complete text. The contribution of this documentation is not only philological, but also cultural and historical: by comparing the official correspondence written in Greek with the private correspondence from the same archive, which was preferably written in Coptic, it helps to illuminate the multilingual background; it unfolds the modalities of epistolary exchanges and the written practices of the administration; it reveals the issues encountered by an Upper Egypt village in its daily life; finally, it contributes to the knowledge of the administrative institutions, as well as to the comprehension of the relations between central and local authorities a century before the Arab-Muslim conquest of Egypt.

Cette recherche se propose d’étudier l’évolution des relations entre Constantinople et les provinces micrasiatiques de l’Empire entre le IXe et le XIe siècle, en ce qui concerne les formes concrètes de l’administration et de l’exploitation des territoires provinciaux, ainsi que la perception et la représentation culturelle de ce rapport. Nous sommes concentré en particulier sur le rôle politique et social de l’aristocratie. Les représentants de ce groupe social étaient en effet les principaux interlocuteurs politiques du pouvoir impérial ; pendant toute la période considérée, ils remplirent une importante fonction de médiation entre le gouvernement central et la société provinciale, par l’exercice des fonctions publiques et par l’action de réseaux, parfois très étendus, de relations personnelles.Après avoir situé notre travail dans le contexte de la discussion historiographique et avoir reconstruit d’abord la représentation traditionnelle des provinces dans la littérature byzantine, ensuite la structure militaire, administrative et fiscale de l’administration provinciale, nous chercherons à définir les enjeux réels liés au contrôle des territoires orientaux à travers l’étude de trois macro-régions. À chaque fois nous nous efforcerons de déceler les intérêts économiques et stratégiques des institutions centrales, leurs rapports mutuels et leur interaction avec la société locale.Enfin, nous chercherons à décrire l’évolution du profil social de l’aristocratie méso-byzantine, de son idéologie et son attitude vis-à-vis de l’idéal impérial. Une telle analyse peut aider à mieux comprendre la crise qui bouleversa l’Empire à la veille de l’avènement d’Alexis Comnène. / This research aims to study the development of relations between Constantinople and the provinces of Asia Minor belonging to the Byzantine the Empire between the ninth and eleventh centuries. This study includes non only a research on the concrete ways to administer and exploit the provincial jurisdictions, but also the perception and cultural representation of the relation between center and periphery. We focused in particular on the political and social role of the aristocracy. The members of this social group were the main political agents of the imperial power; throughout the period, they filled an important mediating role between the central government and the provincial society, by the public functions they exercised and by the extensive and active networks of their personal relationships.After situating our work in the historiography, we dwell on the traditional representation of the provinces in the Byzantine literature, we also describe the military, administrative and fiscal structures of the provincial administration, seeking to identify the real issues related to the control of these Eastern territories, through the study of three macro-regions. For each of them, we try to identify the economic and strategic interests of the central institutions, their mutual relations and their interaction with the provincial society, particularly with the aristocracy.In the last part of this thesis, we try to describe the evolution of the meso-Byzantine aristocracy social profile, its ideology and its attitude vis-à-vis the imperial ideal. Such an analysis can help to understand the political and structural crisis that shook the Empire on the eve of Alexis Comnenus reign.

This thesis discusses the role and place of artists who painted icons in Early Byzantium. To date, they have not been the focus of much academic attention. Instead, information about artists is spread across a range of discussions concerning Byzantium and the history of art. This thesis collates and interprets the empirical and theoretical evidence to concentrate on the people who produced religious portraits before Iconoclasm. In so doing, I seek to further our understanding of these individuals, and offer a more nuanced view of their socio-cultural context, their practices, and the images they painted. This thesis is structured around two definitions of what the Early Byzantine artist could be: ideal and real. I start with the legend that St Luke painted portraits of Christ and the Virgin from life. Part One, ‘The Ideal Artist', considers in turn: the legend of St Luke as an artist and its origins; Luke as an ideal artist; and two other ideal artists: God and the emperor. Part Two, ‘The Real Artist', considers in turn: icons; literary and legislative texts; and finally the motivation for producing religious imagery before the eighth century. The anonymity of artists working in the Early Byzantine period seems to have delayed scholarly interest in them. In this thesis, however, I consider their anonymity as crucial evidence for who artists were: believers. Christian faith in Byzantium is a recurrent theme in this thesis. I argue that artists practiced humility by not signing their work and painted icons to demonstrate, develop, and deepen their love for God. Further, I argue that artists who depicted Mary and Jesus as Mother and Child, as Luke had done, imitated the Evangelist and participated in his image.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Wien--Universität Wien, 1996. / Bibliogr. p. [237]-240. Index.

Dissertation--Berlin--Freie Üniversitat, 1995. / Bibliogr. p. XIII-XXXII. Index.

Thesis (M.A.)--Jāmiʻat al-Qāhirah, 1967. / Includes bibliographical references (v. 3, p. 373-388).

Inaug.-Diss.--Munich. / Lebenslauf. "Abkürzungen für die meistbenutzte Quellenliteratur": p. 4. "Literatur": p. 5.

Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Universität Berlin, 1983. / Vols. two and three 43 cm. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. 424-438).

Inaug.-diss.--Ruprects-Karl-University, Heidelberg.

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