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

Weitere Verfasser: De Giosa, Sami Luigi
Vryzidis, Nikolaos
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2025].
Umfang/Format: xvii, 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781649031877
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.