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The central theme of the articles reproduced in these two volumes is the role of the visual arts and architecture in the cultural interaction between medieval societies, Christian and Muslim, in the eastern Mediterranean. Visual forms of production and communication amongst Christian communities themselves, and between Christian and Muslim, are discussed within their specific social and political contexts. Placing the emphasis on areas which passed between Christian and Muslim raises questions of the formation of identities as well as the relationship of the periphery to the centre.
Focusing on the areas of Egypt, Syria and Palestine in relation to Byzantium, Islam, and the West provides a framework for consideration of particular issues, especially the identity of particular communities. The core of the work considers the period between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, when these areas were at the centre of eastern Mediterranean politics, and seeks to interpret little known evidence in the light of political and cultural circumstances with an interdisciplinary approach as its starting point.
Vol. I features papers on the legacy of Byzantine art, and the medieval Christian art of Egypt. Vol. II covers the Christian art of Medieval Syria, and the art of the Crusader states.
Focusing on the areas of Egypt, Syria and Palestine in relation to Byzantium, Islam, and the West provides a framework for consideration of particular issues, especially the identity of particular communities. The core of the work considers the period between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, when these areas were at the centre of eastern Mediterranean politics, and seeks to interpret little known evidence in the light of political and cultural circumstances with an interdisciplinary approach as its starting point.
Vol. I features papers on the legacy of Byzantine art, and the medieval Christian art of Egypt. Vol. II covers the Christian art of Medieval Syria, and the art of the Crusader states.
Price: £95.00
Pages: 366
Publisher: Pindar Press
Imprint: Pindar Press
Publication Date:
31 December 1998
ISBN: 9781899828043
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
Introduction
Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art: The Byzantine Mosaics of Jordan in Context: Remarks on Imagery, Donors and Mosaicists
Comnenian Aristocratic Palace Decoration: Descriptions and Islamic Connections
Iconic and Aniconic: Unknown Thirteenth Century and Fourteenth Century Byzantine Icons from Cairo in their Woodwork Settings
Note on an Unknown 'Italo-Cretan' Icon in Cairo
Note on a Sixteenth-Century Cretan Crucifixion Icon in Egypt (with S. Skálová)
Christian Art in Medieval Egypt: The Commissioning of a Late Twelfth Century Gospel book: The Frontispieces of MS Paris, Bibl. Nat. Copte 13
The Fine Incense of Virginity: a late Twelfth-Century Wallpainting of the Annunciation at the Monastery of the Syrians, Egypt
Christian-Muslim Relations in Painting in Egypt, Twelfth to mid-Thirteenth Centuries: Sources of Wallpainting at Deir es Suriani and the illustration of the New Testament MS Paris, Copte-Arabe 1/Cairo, Bibl. 94
The al-Mu'allaqa Doors
Reconstructed: An Early Fourteenth-Century Sanctuary Screen from Old Cairo
Churches of Old Cairo and Mosques of Al-Qahira: A Case of Christian-Muslim Interchange
Christian Manuscript production under Ottoman Rule: Note on an Illustrated Seventeenth-Century Copto-Arabic Lectionary in Cairo
Addenda
Index
Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art: The Byzantine Mosaics of Jordan in Context: Remarks on Imagery, Donors and Mosaicists
Comnenian Aristocratic Palace Decoration: Descriptions and Islamic Connections
Iconic and Aniconic: Unknown Thirteenth Century and Fourteenth Century Byzantine Icons from Cairo in their Woodwork Settings
Note on an Unknown 'Italo-Cretan' Icon in Cairo
Note on a Sixteenth-Century Cretan Crucifixion Icon in Egypt (with S. Skálová)
Christian Art in Medieval Egypt: The Commissioning of a Late Twelfth Century Gospel book: The Frontispieces of MS Paris, Bibl. Nat. Copte 13
The Fine Incense of Virginity: a late Twelfth-Century Wallpainting of the Annunciation at the Monastery of the Syrians, Egypt
Christian-Muslim Relations in Painting in Egypt, Twelfth to mid-Thirteenth Centuries: Sources of Wallpainting at Deir es Suriani and the illustration of the New Testament MS Paris, Copte-Arabe 1/Cairo, Bibl. 94
The al-Mu'allaqa Doors
Reconstructed: An Early Fourteenth-Century Sanctuary Screen from Old Cairo
Churches of Old Cairo and Mosques of Al-Qahira: A Case of Christian-Muslim Interchange
Christian Manuscript production under Ottoman Rule: Note on an Illustrated Seventeenth-Century Copto-Arabic Lectionary in Cairo
Addenda
Index