[PDF] A Companion To Medieval Palermo eBook

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9004252533

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The Companion to Medieval Palermo offers a panorama of the history of Medieval Palermo from the sixth to the fifteenth century. Often described by contrast with the communal reality of Medieval Italy as submitted to a royal (external) authority, the city is here given back its density and creativity. Important themes such as artistic and literary productions, religious changes or political autonomy are thus explored anew. Some fields recently investigated are the object of particular scrutiny: the history of the Jews, Byzantine or Islamic Palermo are among them. Contributors are Annliese Nef, Vivien Prigent, Alessandra Bagnera, Mirella Cassarino, Rosi Di Liberto, Elena Pezzini, Henri Bresc, Igor Mineo, Laura Sciascia, Gian Luca Borghese, Sulamith Brodbeck, Benoît Grévin, Giuseppe Mandalà, and Fabrizio Titone.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004512713

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This volume comprises a multidisciplinary study of Pisa’s socio-economic, cultural, and political history, art history, and archaeology at the time of the city’s greatest fame and prosperity during the transformative period of the Middle Ages.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9004392882

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This book offers the first complete survey of the Byzantine poetic production (4th to 15th centuries). It examines the use of poetry in various sociocultural settings in Constantinople and various other centres of the Byzantine empire.

Author : Carol Lansing
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 111842512X

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Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. Examines changing approaches to the study of medieval Europe, its periodization, and central themes Includes coverage of important questions such as identity and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, as well as more traditional topics such as economic and demographic expansion; kingship; and the rise of the West Explores Europe’s understanding of the wider world to place the study of the medieval society in a global context

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9004499245

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This book explores the complex history of contact and exchange between Byzantium and the Latin West over a formative period of more than three hundred years, with a focus on the political, ecclesiastical and cultural spheres.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004307702

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This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy which provides a fresh synthesis of current research as well as new insights on various aspects of its local societies from the 6th to the 11th century.

Author : Finbarr Barry Flood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1442 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 1119068576

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The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field. This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur Essays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art-architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas)

Author : Caroline Goodson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1108489117

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Demonstrates how food-growing gardens in early medieval cities transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9004409467

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Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds seeks to be a crucial contribution to the history of medieval connectedness.

Author : Emily Sohmer Tai
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 3031049152

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This book synthesizes three fields of inquiry on the cutting edge of scholarship in medieval studies and world history: the history of medieval Sicily; the history of maritime violence, often named as piracy; and digital humanities. By merging these seemingly disparate strands in the scholarship of world history and medieval studies into a single volume, this book offers new insights into the history of medieval Sicily and the study of maritime violence. As several of the essays in this volume demonstrate, maritime violence fundamentally shaped experience in the medieval Mediterranean, as every ship that sailed, even those launched for commerce or travel, anticipated the possibility of encountering pirates, or dabbling in piracy themselves.