Intercultural encounters in medieval Greece after 1204 : the evidence of art and material culture / edited by Vicky Foskolou & Sophia Kalopissi-Verti.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Foskolou, Vicky, editor.
• Kalopissi-Verti, Sophia, editor.
• John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

• Byzantios ; 19.
• Byzantioç : studies in Byzantine history and civilization ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Art, Medieval--Greece.
• Art, Byzantine--Greece.
• Christian art and symbolism--Greece--Medieval, 500-1500.
• Material culture--Greece--History--To 1500.
• Greece--Civilization--European influences.
• Greece--History--323-1453.
• Greece--Relations.
• Byzantine Empire--Relations.
• Latin Empire, 1204-1261--Relations.

Physical Description:

555 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols [2022]

Summary:

This volume is a contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue on a crucial topic, viz. the relations between East and West and their reflection in art and culture in late medieval Greece.00Based on the evidence of artistic production and material culture this collective volume aims at exploring cross-cultural relations and interaction between Greeks and Latins in late medieval Greece in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. Fourteen essays discuss mostly new and unpublished archaeological and artistic material, including architecture, sculpture, wall-paintings and icons, pottery and other small finds, but also the evidence of music and poetry. Through the surviving material of these artistic activities this volume explores the way Byzantines and Latins lived side by side on the Greek mainland and the Aegean islands from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries and traces the mechanisms that led to the emergence of the new, composite world of the Latin East. Issues of identity, patronage, papal policy, the missionary activities of the Latin religious orders and the reactions and responses of the Byzantines are also re-considered, offering fresh insights into and a better understanding of the various manifestations of the interrelationship between the two ethnicities, confessions and cultures.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Tracing the Latin Identities and the Role of the Mendicants
• Architecture, Use of Space, and Ornament in the Mendicant Churches of Latin Greece
• An Overview / Michalis Olympios
• Reflections of Mendicant Spirituality in the Monumental Painting of Crete in the Late Medieval Period (13th-15th Centuries) / Vicky Foskolou
• Art, Identity, and the Franciscans in Crete / Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis
• Saint George `of the English'
• Byzantine and Western Encounters in a Chapel of the Fortifications of Rhodes / Anna-Maria Kasdagli
• Western Music and Poetry at the Kingdom of Thessalonica
• Music and Historiography of the Fourth Crusade / Dimitris Kountouras
• pt. II Social Transformations and Mutual Approaches The Evidence of Archaeology and Material Culture
• Imported Projects, Local Skills, and the Emergence of a `Cretan Gothic' / Olga Gratziou
• Glazed Pottery in Late Medieval Morea (13th-15th Centuries) Cross-Cultural Tableware with Multiple Connotations / Anastasia Vassiliou
• Pottery Finds in the Medieval Town of Rhodes (1204-1522)
• Insights on a Multicultural, Cosmopolitan Society / Maria Michailidou
• Dress Accessories and Sartorial Trends in the Principality of Achaia (1205-1428)
• Evidence from the Frankish Castles of Chlemoutsi and Glarentza / Eleni Barmparitsa
• pt. III Cultural Interactions and Byzantine Responses The Evidence of Architecture, Murals, and Icon Painting
• Cultural Interactions Between East and West
• The Testimony of Three Orthodox Monasteries in Thirteenth-Century Frankish Messenia / Michalis Kappas
• Politics of Equilibrium
• Gothic Architectural Features at Mystras (1361-71), Cypriot Models, and the Role of Isabelle de Lusignan / Aspasia Louvi-Kizi
• Reconstructing the Artistic Landscape of Rhodes in the Fifteenth Century
• The Evidence of Painting from Lindos / Angeliki Katsioti
• Permeable Boundaries of Artistic Identity
• The Origin of a Fifteenth-Century Annunciation / Konstantia Kefala
• Preaching, the Role of the Apostles, and the Evidence of Iconography in East and West
• Byzantine Responses to the `Challenges' from the Latin Church after 1204 / Sophia Kalopissi-Verti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

• 9782503598505
• 2503598501

OCLC:

1304248059

Publisher Number:

99991600916

Online:

The John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund Home Page