Bringing the Holy Land home : the Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the reconstruction of a medieval masterpiece / edited by Amanda Luyster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luyster, Amanda, editor.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history

Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pavements, Tile--England--Design.

Pavements, Tile.

Art, Medieval--England.

Art, Medieval.

Pavements, Tile--England--Chertsey--Design.

Art, Medieval--England--Chertsey.

Pavements, Tile--Design.

Chertsey Abbey.

England--Chertsey.

Physical Description:

371 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plan ; 25 x 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Harvey Miller Publishers ; Turnhout : Brepols, [2023]

Summary:

A carefully-integrated group of studies begins with the so-called "Chertsey" ceramic tiles, depicting combat between King Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. Found at Chertsey Abbey not far outside London and admired since the nineteenth century, we present here a new reconstruction of both the tiles and their previously-undeciphered Latin texts. The reconstruction demonstrates not only that the theme of the entire mosaic is the Crusades, but also that the overall appearance of the tiles, when laid as a floor, draws from the composition and iconography of imported Islamic and Byzantine silks. Essays illuminate specific material contexts that similarly witness western Europe's, and particularly England's, engagement with the material culture of the eastern Mediterranean, including ceramics, textiles, relics and reliquaries, metalwork, coins, sculpture, and ivories.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: CATALOGUE ESSAYS

The Chertsey Tiles: Reassembling Fragments of Meaning / Amanda Luyster

A Clash of Civilizations? Diverse Motivations, Multiple Actors, and the Hidden Richness of Muslim Historical Sources / Suleiman A. Mourad

The Crusades: A Short History / David Nicolle

So Much National Magnificence and National History: The Foundation, Structure, and Fall of Chertsey Abbey / Euan Roger

Epic Sensibilities in French Art of the Crusader Period / Richard A. Leson

Re-creating the Holy Land at Home: Relics from the East in England / Cynthia Hahn

The Mobility of Fabric: Textiles in and around Medieval Eurasia / Elizabeth Dospel Williams

Crusaders in Jerusalem: Frankish Encounters with Idols, Holy Monuments, and Portable Objects / Eva R. Hoffman

Oliphants and Elephants: African Ivory in England / Sarah M. Guerin

A Cupbearer Crosses Cultures: Figural Ceramic Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean / Scott Redford

Citizens and Invaders: Encounters with Sculpture in Constantinople during the Fourth Crusaded / Paroma Chatterjee

OBJECTS IN FOCUS

Black Fighters on a Late Antique Textile / Andrea Myers Achi

St. Menas Pilgrim Flask / Sean Gilsdorf

Brooch/Amulet with Inscribed Arabic Seal / Nina Masin-Moyer

Enkolpion Reliquary Cross / Nina Masin-Moyer

Chess Piece with King or Vizier / Nina Masin-Moyer

So-called Crusader's Bowl / Alicia Walker

Architectural Fragment with Griffin / A. L. McClanan

Amphora with Confronted Hybrid Figures / Nina Masin-Moyer

Section of a Cassone Panel with Beasts in Roundels / Meredith Fluke

Lusterware Bowl with Figure / Grace P. Morrissey

Gold Penny of Henry III / Eurydice S. Georganteli

Gemellion with the Arms of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem / Nina Masin-Moyer

The Morgan Picture Bible / Students From Boston College.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-349) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781912554942

1912554941

OCLC:

1344292219

Publisher Number:

99993272734