The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity : cross-pollinations in art, architecture, and material culture /

The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity : cross-pollinations in art, architecture, and material culture /

"This volume offers an exploration of the Christian-Islamic encounter in a pan-Mediterranean context, through an array of new research papers based on micro-historical case studies of the religious arts, architecture, and material culture. The new Mediterraneanism forged during the last decades...

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Other Authors: De Giosa, Sami Luigi (Editor), Vryzidis, Nikolaos (Editor)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2024.

Subjects:

Art, Medieval > Mediterranean Region.
Christian art and symbolism > Mediterranean Region > Medieval, 500-1500.
Islamic art and symbolism > Mediterranean Region > History.
Architecture > Mediterranean Region > History.
Islamic architecture > Mediterranean Region > Influence.
Material culture > Mediterranean Region > History.

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Call Number: N7258 .M44

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the aesthetic space of interreligious encounter: microhistorical case studies from the mediaeval Mediterranean / Nikolaos Vryzidis, Sami Luigi de Giosa
  • From one edge of the Mediterranean to the other : prolegomena on Mamluk and Iberian ceramics in Venetian Crete / Maria Bormpoudaki
  • Reconsidering 'Andalusi' textiles in two Christian contexts : the San Isidoro and Bayonne silks between art historical myth and reality / Ana Cabrera-Lafuente
  • Balsam oil of Mattariyya : Mamluk contribution to Christian liturgy / Hani Hamza
  • Judging a book by its cover : the contribution of Islamic bindings to the look of the European book / Alison Ohta
  • Counter-propaganda and talismanic power : the conciliar edict of 1166 from Hagia Sophia to Suleiman's mausoleum / Faruk Bilici, Eleni Fragaki
  • Venetian cross fixed on a Seljuk candleholder : composite Mediterraneanism at Saint Paul's Monastery, Mount Athos / Nikolaos Vryzidis, Paschalis Androudis
  • Inscribing the Christian body in life and death : Tiraz textiles with Coptic and Greek inscriptions / Arielle Winnik
  • Stone and text : Christian architectural spolia in Egypt during the Mamluk period (1250-1517) / Sami Luigi de Giosa
  • The syncretism of regal images in Georgia : the sculpted program of the Church of Saint John the Baptist of Oshki (963-976) / Nino Simonishvili
  • The use of muqarnas in the Christian buildings of mediaeval Anatolia and Mosul / Richard McClary.