Eclecticism In Late Medieval Visual Culture At The Crossroads Of The Latin Greek And Slavic Traditions

Author : Maria Alessia Rossi,Alice Isabella Sullivan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110695618

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Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Traditions by Maria Alessia Rossi,Alice Isabella Sullivan Pdf

This volume builds upon the new worldwide interest in the global Middle Ages. It investigates the prismatic heritage and eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, while challenging the temporal and geographical parameters of the study of medieval, Byzantine, post-Byzantine, and early-modern art. Contact and interchange between primarily the Latin, Greek, and Slavic cultural spheres resulted in local assimilations of select elements that reshaped the artistic landscapes of regions of the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathian Mountains, and further north. The specificities of each region, and, in modern times, politics and nationalistic approaches, have reinforced the tendency to treat them separately, preventing scholars from questioning whether the visual output could be considered as an expression of a shared history. The comparative and interdisciplinary framework of this volume provides a holistic view of the visual culture of these regions by addressing issues of transmission and appropriation, as well as notions of cross-cultural contact, while putting on the global map of art history the eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe.

Author : Maria Alessia Rossi,Alice Isabella Sullivan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110695632

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Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Traditions by Maria Alessia Rossi,Alice Isabella Sullivan Pdf

This volume builds upon the new worldwide interest in the global Middle Ages. It investigates the prismatic heritage and eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, while challenging the temporal and geographical parameters of the study of medieval, Byzantine, post-Byzantine, and early-modern art. Contact and interchange between primarily the Latin, Greek, and Slavic cultural spheres resulted in local assimilations of select elements that reshaped the artistic landscapes of regions of the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathian Mountains, and further north. The specificities of each region, and, in modern times, politics and nationalistic approaches, have reinforced the tendency to treat them separately, preventing scholars from questioning whether the visual output could be considered as an expression of a shared history. The comparative and interdisciplinary framework of this volume provides a holistic view of the visual culture of these regions by addressing issues of transmission and appropriation, as well as notions of cross-cultural contact, while putting on the global map of art history the eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe.

Author : Alice Isabella Sullivan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004543843

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The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia by Alice Isabella Sullivan Pdf

Winner of the 2023 Early Slavic Studies Book Prize from the Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) (Best book) Medieval Moldavia – which was located within present-day northeastern Romania and the Republic of Moldova – developed a bold and eclectic visual culture beginning in the 15th century. Within this networked Carpathian Mountain region, art and architecture reflect the creativity and diversity of the cultural landscapes of Eastern Europe. Moldavian objects and monuments – ranging from fortified monasteries and churches enveloped in fresco cycles to silk embroideries, delicately carved woodwork and metalwork, as well as manuscripts gifted to Mount Athos and other Christian centers – negotiate the complex issues of patronage and community in the region. The works attest to processes of cultural contact and translation, revealing how Western medieval, Byzantine, and Slavic traditions were mediated in Moldavian contexts in the post-Byzantine period. Winner of the 2023 Early Slavic Studies Book Prize, awarded by the Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) for the best book published between Sept 1, 2021 and August 31, 2023 in the field of Early Slavic Studies (pre-1800). The awarding committee praised the volume as ‘the first English monograph to provide a comprehensive overview of Moldavia's artistic and architectural landscape during the 15th and 16th centuries, locating the region as a significant facet in the global map of art history.’ Official ESSA announcement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004421370

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Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages focuses on how the heritage of Byzantium was continued and transformed alongside local developments in the artistic and cultural traditions of Eastern Europe between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Author : Alice Isabella Sullivan,Kyle G. Sweeney
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004538467

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Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture by Alice Isabella Sullivan,Kyle G. Sweeney Pdf

This volume engages with notions of lateness and modernity in medieval architecture, broadly conceived geographically, temporally, methodologically, and theoretically. It aims to (re)situate secular and religious buildings from the 14th through the 16th centuries that are indebted to medieval building practices and designs, within the more established narratives of art and architectural history.

Author : Maria Alessia Rossi,Alice Isabella Sullivan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003844891

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The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in the Danube Regions, 1300-1600 by Maria Alessia Rossi,Alice Isabella Sullivan Pdf

This volume aims to broaden and nuance knowledge about the history, art, culture, and heritage of Eastern Europe relative to Byzantium. From the thirteenth century to the decades after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the regions of the Danube River stood at the intersection of different traditions, and the river itself has served as a marker of connection and division, as well as a site of cultural contact and negotiation. The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in the Danube Regions, 1300–1600 brings to light the interconnectedness of this broad geographical area too often either studied in parts or neglected altogether, emphasizing its shared history and heritage of the regions of modern Greece, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Czechia. The aim is to challenge established perceptions of what constitutes ideological and historical facets of the past, as well as Byzantine and post-Byzantine cultural and artistic production in a region of the world that has yet to establish a firm footing on the map of art history. The 24 chapters offer a fresh and original approach to the history, literature, and art history of the Danube regions, thus being accessible to students thematically, chronologically, or by case study; each part can be read independently or explored as part of a whole.

Author : Pamela A. Patton,Maria Alessia Rossi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 9780271095868

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Out of Bounds by Pamela A. Patton,Maria Alessia Rossi Pdf

Author : Pamela A. Patton and Maria Alessia Rossi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271095851

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Out of Bounds by Pamela A. Patton and Maria Alessia Rossi Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004529106

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The Worlds of Villard de Honnecourt: The Portfolio, Medieval Technology, and Gothic Monuments by Anonim Pdf

This book charts the past, present, and future of studies on medieval technology, art, and craft practices. Inspired by Villard’s enigmatic portfolio of artistic and engineering drawings, this collection explores the multiple facets of medieval building represented in this manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr 19093). The book’s eighteen essays and two introductions showcase traditional and emergent methods for the study of medieval craft, demonstrating how these diverse approaches collectively amplify our understanding about how medieval people built, engineered, and represented their world. Contributions range from the analysis of words and images in Villard’s portfolio, to the close analysis of masonry, technological marvels, and gothic architecture, pointing the way toward new avenues for future scholarship to explore. Contributors are: Mickey Abel, Carl F. Barnes Jr., Robert Bork, George Brooks, Michael T. Davis, Amy Gillette, Erik Gustafson, Maile S. Hutterer, John James, William Sayers, Ellen Shortell, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Richard Alfred Sundt, Sarah Thompson, Steven A. Walton, Maggie M. Williams, Kathleen Wilson Ruffo, and Nancy Wu.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004527980

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Natural Light in Medieval Churches by Anonim Pdf

Inside Christian churches, natural light has been harnessed to underscore theological, symbolic, and ideological statements. This volume explores how the study of sunlight can reveal aspects of the design, decoration, and function of sacred spaces in the Middle Ages.

Author : Ahmed M. A. Sheir
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9786156405296

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The Prester John Legend between East and West During the Crusades by Ahmed M. A. Sheir Pdf

This book considers the history of the Prester John legend and its impact on the Crusades, investigating its entangled mythical history between East and West during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The present study thus responds to the still pressing need for a comprehensive historical investigation of the twelfth and thirteenth crusading history of the legend and its impact on the Muslim-Crusader encounters, examining various Latin, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic accounts. It further reflects on new eastern aspects of the legend, presenting a new Arab scholarly view. This book first charts a pre-history of the legend in the late ancient Christian prophecy of the Last Emperor down to the emergence of the legend in the mid-twelfth century. Second, the work presents a historical discussion of the legend and its association with actual occurrences in the Far East and the Levant, analysing the legend history under the crusading crisis and the imperial papal schism in Europe. Meanwhile, the work considers the vague Prester John Letter addressed to Manuel I Komnenus, Byzantine Emperor, and its elaborate conception of a mythical eastern kingdom, revealing imaginative parallels on the wondrous East and legendary Eastern Christian kings in Arabic Muslim and Christian accounts of the Muslim geographer and cartographer al-Idrisi, the Coptic Abu al-Makarim and the Syriac Ibn al-'Ibri (Bar Hebraeus), among others. Moreover, the book examines how the legend impacted war and peace processes between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders during the Fifth Crusade against Egypt (1217-1221), revealing how it was mingled with Arabic and Eastern Christian prophecies at the time. The study concludes by investigating the perception of Prester John by the papal and European envoys to the Mongols in the thirteenth century, revealing how the legend was instrumentalised (and even weaponised) to establish a Latin-Mongol crusade through a parallel exploration of relevant Latin, Arabic and Syriac sources.

Author : Petr Balcárek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004527799

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Byzantium in the Czech Lands (4th–16th centuries) by Petr Balcárek Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of Byzantine influence on the art and iconography of East Central Europe and also the first account of the disciplinary development of Byzantine Studies in the Czech and Slovak Republics.

Author : Alice Isabella Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Architecture, Medieval
ISBN : 9004529047

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The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia by Alice Isabella Sullivan Pdf

The eclectic visual culture of medieval Moldavia developed at the crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic traditions beginning in the 15th century. The artistic production of this networked Carpathian Mountain region reflects the creativity, complexity, and diversity of the cultural landscapes of Eastern Europe.

Author : Maria Alessia Rossi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781009387620

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Visualizing Christ's Miracles in Late Byzantium by Maria Alessia Rossi Pdf

Investigates the political and spiritual agenda behind monumental paintings of Christ's miracles in late Byzantine churches.

Author : Anna Cecilia Olovsdotter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110546507

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Envisioning Worlds in Late Antique Art by Anna Cecilia Olovsdotter Pdf

It has long been an accepted assumption that the abstracted mode of visual representation that emerged in late antiquity reflected a collective shift from the outer-directed and ’material’ world-view of classical antiquity to an inner-directed, ’spiritual’ mentality informed by Christianity: the purpose of this volume is to offer a more nuanced and diverse image of the nature and meanings of abstraction and symbolism in late antique and early medieval art, beyond normative intepretation models, and from a number of different methodological and interpretative perspectives. In ten chapters, ten authors specialised in various fields of late-antique and Byzantine art explore the historiographical background of the ’spiritual’ interpretation paradigm, neuroscientific and theological dimensions of Christian visual aesthetics, meanings and motive factors behind apparently wholly abstract and aniconic compositions, symbolic motifs and schemes for visualising cosmic order and the cosmic state of Christ, and the re-use of symbolic Greco-Roman themes in Christian contexts. The result is a multi-focal image of late antique abstraction and symbolism that illuminates the heterogeneity and complexity of the phenomena and of their study.