The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity : cross-pollinations in art, architecture, and material culture / edited by Sami Luigi de Giosa, Nikolaos Vryzidis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Giosa, Sami Luigi, editor.

Vryzidis, Nikolaos, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Medieval--Mediterranean Region.

Art, Medieval.

Christian art and symbolism--Mediterranean Region--Medieval, 500-1500.

Christian art and symbolism.

Islamic art and symbolism--Mediterranean Region--History.

Islamic art and symbolism.

Architecture--Mediterranean Region--History.

Architecture.

Islamic architecture--Mediterranean Region--Influence.

Islamic architecture.

Material culture--Mediterranean Region--History.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Cross-pollinations in art, architecture, and material culture

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This volume offers an exploration of the Christian-Islamic encounter in a pan-Mediterranean context, through an array of new research papers based on micro-historical case studies of the religious arts, architecture, and material culture. The new Mediterraneanism forged during the last decades has opened the door to approaches that reveal Christian-Islamic interchange in its full complexity, as well as diversity. Within this frame, one of the most relevant, yet underexplored lines of investigation is that of the "aesthetic space": the notion that aesthetic pleasure transcends boundaries, paving the way to a cross-religious experience and appreciation. "Indeed, God is beautiful, and He loves beauty", as mentioned in a Hadith narration, a universal cry of visual beauty that resonates with all cultures and civilizations. This concept finds perfect application in the case of textiles, ceramics, metalware, and other artifacts that traveled across the medieval Mediterranean. Commodities such as the balsam oil further expand this shared space, to also encompass the sensory aspect in its broadest sense. What is more, the appropriation of spolia and symbols bring visual appeal through the meaning they produce and convey, opening up the conceptualization of this space even more"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-64903-336-2

1-64903-337-0

OCLC:

1514633852