Morana Čaušević-Bully

Esquisse d'un paysage monastique insulaire dans le nord de l'Adriatique: l'archipel du Kvarner (Croatie)

The authors of the article set as their goal the examination of the complex question of early Monasticism (up to the 11th century) in the Kvarner region, reconsidering the old archaeological data, the unpublished ancient results and the results of new archaeological surveys gathered since 2010 through the specific research program. The first difficulty encountered is that of the actual identification of the archaeological remains as a monastic or hermitic site, given the lack of any written source for most of the sites. We examine here a certain number of religious sites, potentially monastic ones, considering their larger context of implantation, their patron, and/or their vicinity to a byzantine fortress. Other sites of different type are presented equally, through a description of the conditions of their foundation, focusing on the questions of the re-use of previous structures and their place along the maritime routes.

Le monastère Saint-Pierre D'Osor (Île de Cres) : septième campagne d'études archéologiques

The 2012 campaign of the archaeological research project permitted the exhaustive excavations of the immediate surroundings of the southern nave of the abbey church of St Peter in Osor. The richness and the complexity of the discovered structures confirmed the great archaeological potential of this sector. Namely, a funeral zone that is situated south to the church is occupied by two buildings perpendicular to the church which we interpret as a mausoleum (the one on the west) and a chapel with one privileged burial (the one on the east). The great number of built tombs or simples graves confirmed that this sector had funeral function even before the XIth century and the construction of the early Romanesque church, until the early modern period. Furthermore, the primary analysis of the eastern part of the Venetian city wall and the long monastic building situated in the eastern part of the monastery was carried out.

Le monastère Saint-Pierre d’Osor (île de Cres): Troisième campagne d’études archéologiques

Cet article se propose d’etablir un compte-rendu de la campagne de fouille 2008 menee sur le site du monastere Saint-Pierre d’Osor. Comme les annees precedentes, nous avons poursuivi les travaux de terrassement autour de l’eglise Saint-Pierre et la fouille du secteur ouvert a son chevet, tout en finalisant l’etude archeologique des elevations. L’eglise Saint-Pierre, attestee au debut du XIe siecle par les sources historiques et des datations radiocarbones, succede a plusieurs phases de constructions, dont la plus ancienne date du IVe siecle. Son mur nord a enchâsse une partie d’une construction anterieure de l’Antiquite tardive ou du haut Moyen Âge. La fouille du cimetiere medieval au chevet de Saint-Pierre indique que la population qui y est inhumee serait plutot de type paroissial avec de grands laics. Le cimetiere pourrait avoir ete abandonne au moment de la reconstruction de l’eglise aux XVe-XVIe siecles.

Le monastère Saint-Pierre d’Osor (île de Cres): onzième campagne d’études archéologiques.

Before the presentation of the 2016 campaign, the results of the campaign of 2015 are briefly cited. The completion of the excavation of the reduced church, the further analysis of its structures as well as the stratigraphical analysis allowed us to reformulate our hypothesis and advance our knowledge of the first church on the site which seems to have had a cruciform ground plan and have been built in the proto-Byzantine period. This year’s campaign was mostly carried out in the area of the Romanesque church vestibule (sector V) and of its north-east exterior (sector VI). Among most important contributions is the discovery of the large vessel found in the northern part of the vestibule whose space was clearly partitioned both in elevation (partition in bays) and at ground level (privileged burials in the central bay, infant burials in the southern bay). Numerous medieval tombs were found and excavated in the sector VI, as well as two graves from the iron age that were discovered under the medieval built ...

Le monastère Saint-Pierre d’Osor (île de Cres) : huitième campagne d’études archéologiques

Two protohistoric Liburnian graves are the most ancient structures discovered in this year’s campaign which was essentially focused on the sector IV, south of the abbey church of Saint Peter in Osor. This area is particularly rich in medieval built tombs of the monastic cemetery that developed next to the church and a mausoleum. The precise datation of this funeral building, which was being used in the 10th century, is still to be determined, but it has been confirmed that its construction preceded the foundation of the monastery, for at least few decades. A great many monks have chosen the mausoleum as their burial site.In the excavations of the first bay of the basilica other tombs were unearthed as well as the rest of the “inner” facade that divided the church from its vestibule. Further excavations of the building B have allowed us to establish its datation (11th - 12th century) and to discover some structures dating from Late Antiquity. The most important contribution of this campaign is the confirma...

Le monastère Saint-Pierre d'Osor (île de Cres) : cinquième campagne d'études archéologiques

In this article the main results of the 2010 excavations campaign on the site of the monastery of Saint Peter in Osor are presented. Theses concern the medieval cemetery and some late antique dwellings situated east of the church’s sanctuary. Further more, the test probe north of the basilica of Saint Peter led to the discovery of a late medieval craft workshop zone (fulling mill?), and the one on the south provided supplementary information about the connections between the church and other, previous or later, buildings. The combination of different approaches (archaeological excavations and analysis of the elevations, geophysical and documentary research) enabled us to propose a new working hypothesis on the origin of the church (6th-7th c.?) and the first sketch of the medieval topography of the monastery.