Identifier: cu31924081258430 (find matches)
Title: Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Waern, Cecilia, 1853-
Subjects: Art Art, Medieval
Publisher: London, Duckworth & co
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he patriarch of Byzantium becameoverlord of the Sicilian Church, It seems to havebeen still flourishing at the beginning of the ninthcentury. There were two archbishoprics, one atCatania and one at Syracuse, with suffraganbishops at Taormina, Messina, Cefalu, Termini,Palermo, Lilibeo (now Marsala), Triocala, Girgenti,Tindaro, Lentini, Alesa (Malta and Lipari). Therewas thus a certain number of important Byzantinechurche,s on the island. What seem to be im-portant ruins with a fine mosaic floor have beenfound near Salemi. Some small churches havesurvived ; one at Malvagna (near the Circum-Etnarailway), and several in the province of Syracuse.From the careful study by Professor Paolo Orsi Itake leave to borrow diagrams of the most completeand interesting of these, the one at Maccari, stillsurrounded by the scattered remains of a Byzantinevillage, and very Byzantine in cruciform plan (withthe west arm as it were atrophied) and domed con-struction. As shown by the illustrations, there is2
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CHURCH AT MACCARISection. 7///// Byz. Zeitschrift, vol. vii.

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