Saint George Between Empires : Image and Encounter in the Medieval East
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| Autore: |
Badamo Heather A
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| Titolo: |
Saint George Between Empires : Image and Encounter in the Medieval East
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| Pubblicazione: | University Park, PA : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2023 |
| ©2024 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 704.94863 |
| Soggetto topico: | Christian art and symbolism - Middle East - Medieval, 500-1500 |
| Christian saints in art | |
| Islamic art and symbolism - Middle East | |
| ART / History / Medieval | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Saint George Between Empires |
| ISBN: | 9780271095936 |
| 0271095938 | |
| 9780271095943 | |
| 0271095946 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911009244603321 |
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