The article examines the context of a recently discovered double bath-house complex in Loutres, a site near Mochlos on the north shore of eastern Crete. The excavators explore the broader questions ...posed by the finding, in connection to both its immediate surroundings and its wider periphery. Its relation to the site’s geography, a ravine on the shore, forms the starting point to address issues regarding its original use as well as its later transformations. The enquiry leads into considering similar structures with different fates in the area and the connotations regarding their relationship to both the landscape and the settlements to which they belonged. The article goes on to discuss the general issues of the historic context of medieval Crete concerning both the archaeology and the information from the sources. It seems that long-held concepts about the abandonment of seaside settlements due to the so-called “Arab threat” are no longer valid. On the contrary, archaeology proves the continuity of the settlements of eastern Crete, both in Loutres and elsewhere. Moreover, the later use of the bath-houses in the area provides evidence for social changes after the 13th century impacting on both the landscape and its settlements.
Cet ouvrage est consacré aux villes méditerranéennes à l’époque médiévale, de Cordoue jusqu’à Famagouste en passant par Pechina, Aix, Marseille, Avignon, Naples, Palerme, Thessalonique, ...Constantinople et Fustat. Ces villes, qui ont le plus souvent hérité d’un long passé enraciné dans l’Antiquité, sont parfois des créations de l’époque médiévale. Certaines ont bénéficié de leur situation au croisement des routes maritimes, d’autres se sont hissées au rang de capitale royale ou impériale, d’autres encore se sont épanouies grâce à l’afflux de populations réfugiées, d’autres, enfin, ont eu un rayonnement religieux inégalé - à moins qu’elles aient connu l’ensemble de ces faveurs. Multiples facettes d’un monde méditerranéen urbain souvent troublé mais qui présente des caractères communs au-delà de la diversité : capitales où résident les souverains ; villes qui ébauchent un système communal ou jouissent d’une organisation municipale développée ; cités où le passé gréco-romain s’estompe dans le tracé urbain au fil des constructions médiévales et du développement de l’urbanisation ; ports où les marchands s’affairent, où des populations d’origines diverses se croisent, où l’industrie et la construction se développent au rythme des échanges ; villes en effervescence culturelle et artistique alimentée par le mouvement continu des voyageurs, ambassadeurs et missionnaires entre l’Orient et l’Occident ; villes en devenir ou en passe d’être frappées par les armes ; villes dynamiques parfois secouées par des crises violentes dues à un essor trop rapide, à l’inégalité sociale, l’angoisse des populations à l’aube de l’un des plus grands bouleversements géopolitiques de l’histoire méditerranéenne… Telles sont les villes que nous font découvrir les vingt-deux contributions de cet ouvrage.
La donation d’un domaine incluant une résidence noble à un couvent de femmes par Anne de Savoie et plus tard à un monastère par Manuel II, constitue le point de départ d’un réexamen de certaines ...caractéristiques de la topographie urbaine de Thessalonique au xive siècle. Les spécificités de l’architecture et de l’histoire de l’église connue sous le nom du « Prophète Élie » sont liées aux évènements relatifs à la fin de la controverse hésychaste et à la suprématie définitive de la maison des Paléologues sur les Cantacuzènes. L’église est identifiée au katholikon des Saints-Anargyres et sa construction attribuée à Anne. La donation par Anne au couvent des Saints-Anargyres incluait la noble résidence de Guy de Lusignan, où elle résida probablement en tant que nonne Anastasie. Cette propriété convoitée devint un sujet de conflit et son histoire révèle à quel point le paysage urbain de Thessalonique reflète les relations complexes d’une société multiethnique et très diversifiée. Il se peut cependant qu’il ne soit que l’un des nombreux palais paléologues de la ville.
Theodoros Agorastos1, Vassilis Koutkias2, Manolis Falelakis3,4, Irini Lekka2, Themistoklis Mikos1, Anastasios Delopoulos3,4, Pericles A. Mitkas3,4, Antonios Tantsis1, Steven Weyers5, Pascal ...Coorevits6, Andreas M. Kaufmann7, Roberto Kurzeja7 and Nicos Maglaveras21Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 2Lab of Medical Informatics, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 4Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece. 5Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium. 6RAMIT vzw, c/o Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium. 7Gynäkologie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.AbstractThe current work addresses the unification of Electronic Health Records related to cervical cancer into a single medical knowledge source, in the context of the EU-funded ASSIST research project. The project aims to facilitate the research for cervical precancer and cancer through a system that virtually unifies multiple patient record repositories, physically located in different medical centers/hospitals, thus, increasing flexibility by allowing the formation of study groups "on demand" and by recycling patient records in new studies. To this end, ASSIST uses semantic technologies to translate all medical entities (such as patient examination results, history, habits, genetic profile) and represent them in a common form, encoded in the ASSIST Cervical Cancer Ontology. The current paper presents the knowledge elicitation approach followed, towards the definition and representation of the disease's medical concepts and rules that constitute the basis for the ASSIST Cervical Cancer Ontology. The proposed approach constitutes a paradigm for semantic integration of heterogeneous clinical data that may be applicable to other biomedical application domains.
The current work addresses the unification of Electronic Health Records related to cervical cancer into a single medical knowledge source, in the context of the EU-funded ASSIST research project. The ...project aims to facilitate the research for cervical precancer and cancer through a system that virtually unifies multiple patient record repositories, physically located in different medical centers/hospitals, thus, increasing flexibility by allowing the formation of study groups “on demand” and by recycling patient records in new studies. To this end, ASSIST uses semantic technologies to translate all medical entities (such as patient examination results, history, habits, genetic profile) and represent them in a common form, encoded in the ASSIST Cervical Cancer Ontology. The current paper presents the knowledge elicitation approach followed, towards the definition and representation of the disease’s medical concepts and rules that constitute the basis for the ASSIST Cervical Cancer Ontology. The proposed approach constitutes a paradigm for semantic integration of heterogeneous clinical data that may be applicable to other biomedical application domains.
The current work addresses the unification of Electronic Health Records related to cervical cancer into a single medical knowledge source, in the context of the EU-funded ASSIST research project. The ...project aims to facilitate the research for cervical precancer and cancer through a system that virtually unifies multiple patient record repositories, physically located in different medical centers/hospitals, thus, increasing flexibility by allowing the formation of study groups “on demand” and by recycling patient records in new studies. To this end, ASSIST uses semantic technologies to translate all medical entities (such as patient examination results, history, habits, genetic profile) and represent them in a common form, encoded in the ASSIST Cervical Cancer Ontology. The current paper presents the knowledge elicitation approach followed, towards the definition and representation of the disease’s medical concepts and rules that constitute the basis for the ASSIST Cervical Cancer Ontology. The proposed approach constitutes a paradigm for semantic integration of heterogeneous clinical data that may be applicable to other biomedical application domains.
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