Anne Michel

Autour de l'identification des mausolées : le cas de Saint-Seurin de Bordeaux

According to the medieval historical tradition, Saint-Seurin was the city of Bordeaux’ oldest Christian church. This idea influenced the orientation of all researches from the 19thcentury until the 1980s. From 1995 onwards, new research led to forget the idea that St-Seurin’s church had been the first cathedral of Bordeaux. Recent study of the documentation from the excavations undertaken during the 20thcentury, and the re-examination of the wall of constructions unearthed to the south of the church have enlightened its development around a Late Antique mausoleum belonging to a 4thcent. necropolis. We are now able to understand the development of this mausoleum, which later became the core of the medieval crypt linked to the memory of bishop Seurin. The funerary context of the origin of Saint-Seurin is now well understood, but the chronology of the different phases of its development remains to be clarified.

Les églises doubles de la Jordanie

The inventory of double churches from Jordan is limited : the episcopal group ofMadaba and the church of Amos and Casiseos (Khirbat al-Mukhayyat) must be discarded; the group of St. John the Baptist (Gerasa), the complex of St. Stephen (Umm al-Rasas) and probably the group excavated at Khirbat al-Samra should be added to the twin basilicas of the castrum Umm al-Rasas and to the episcopal group of Gerasa. The architectural organization of these groups and their functions display great diversity. Commemorations of martyrs and baptismal liturgies are important here as elsewhere.