03578nam 22005893 450 991100924460332120240720060242.0978027109593602710959389780271095943027109594610.1515/9780271095943(CKB)32202248100041(MiAaPQ)EBC31522988(Au-PeEL)EBL31522988(DE-B1597)691460(DE-B1597)9780271095943(OCoLC)1437446472(Perlego)4438625(EXLCZ)993220224810004120240720d2023 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSaint George Between Empires Image and Encounter in the Medieval East1st ed.University Park, PA :Pennsylvania State University Press,2023.©2024.1 online resource (305 pages)9780271095226 0271095229 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Nomenclature and Communities -- Introduction: Image Networks of George in the Eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia -- 1 A Muslim in the Faith of Jesus -- 2 Holy Warriors and Imperial Aspirations -- 3 Dragons and Charismatic Heroes -- 4 The Culture of Slavery and the Salvation of Souls -- 5 Spiritual Combat and Coptic Authority in Ayyūbid Egypt -- 6 Jacobite Hi stories of the Crusades -- Conclusion: An Exemplar of Interfaith Encounter -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThis volume examines Saint George’s intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how rival conceptions of this well-known saint became central to Crusader, Eastern Christian, and Islamic medieval visual cultures.Saint George Between Empires links the visual cultures of Byzantium, North Africa, the Levant, Syria, and the Caucasus during the Crusader era to redraw our picture of interfaith relations and artistic networks. Heather Badamo recovers and recontextualizes a vast body of images and literature—from etiquette manuals and romances to miracle accounts and chronicles—to describe the history of Saint George during a period of religious and political fragmentation, between his “rise” to cross-cultural prominence in the eleventh century and his “globalization” in the fifteenth. In Badamo’s analysis, George emerges as an exemplar of cross-cultural encounter and global translation.Featuring important new research on monuments and artworks that are no longer available to scholars as a result of the occupation of Syria and parts of Iraq, Saint George Between Empires will be welcomed by scholars of Byzantine, medieval, Islamic, and Eastern Christian art and cultural studies.Christian art and symbolismMiddle EastMedieval, 500-1500Christian saints in artIslamic art and symbolismMiddle EastART / History / MedievalbisacshChristian art and symbolismChristian saints in art.Islamic art and symbolismART / History / Medieval.704.94863Badamo Heather A1827995MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911009244603321Saint George Between Empires4396077UNINA