The Medieval Salento

Author : Linda Safran
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208917

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The Medieval Salento by Linda Safran Pdf

Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Inhabitants spoke Latin, Greek, and various vernaculars, and their houses of worship served sizable congregations of Jews as well as Roman-rite and Orthodox Christians. Yet the Salentines of this period laid claim to a definable local identity that transcended linguistic and religious boundaries. The evidence of their collective culture is embedded in the traces they left behind: wall paintings and inscriptions, graffiti, carved ­­tombstone decorations, belt fittings from graves, and other artifacts reveal a wide range of religious, civic, and domestic practices that helped inhabitants construct and maintain personal, group, and regional identities. The Medieval Salento allows the reader to explore the visual and material culture of a people using a database of over three hundred texts and images, indexed by site. Linda Safran draws from art history, archaeology, anthropology, and ethnohistory to reconstruct medieval Salentine customs of naming, language, appearance, and status. She pays particular attention to Jewish and nonelite residents, whose lives in southern Italy have historically received little scholarly attention. This extraordinarily detailed visual analysis reveals how ethnic and religious identities can remain distinct even as they mingle to become a regional culture.

Author : Linda Safran
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812245547

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The Medieval Salento by Linda Safran Pdf

Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Inhabitants spoke Latin, Greek, and various vernaculars, and their houses of worship served sizable congregations of Jews as well as Roman-rite and Orthodox Christians. Yet the Salentines of this period laid claim to a definable local identity that transcended linguistic and religious boundaries. The evidence of their collective culture is embedded in the traces they left behind: wall paintings and inscriptions, graffiti, carved ­­tombstone decorations, belt fittings from graves, and other artifacts reveal a wide range of religious, civic, and domestic practices that helped inhabitants construct and maintain personal, group, and regional identities. The Medieval Salento allows the reader to explore the visual and material culture of a people using a database of over three hundred texts and images, indexed by site. Linda Safran draws from art history, archaeology, anthropology, and ethnohistory to reconstruct medieval Salentine customs of naming, language, appearance, and status. She pays particular attention to Jewish and nonelite residents, whose lives in southern Italy have historically received little scholarly attention. This extraordinarily detailed visual analysis reveals how ethnic and religious identities can remain distinct even as they mingle to become a regional culture.

Author : William Randolph Robins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442642720

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Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy by William Randolph Robins Pdf

Based on papers presented at the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., from Nov. 6 - 8th, 2005.

Author : Michael Edward Stewart,David Alan Parnell,Conor Whately
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429633409

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The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium by Michael Edward Stewart,David Alan Parnell,Conor Whately Pdf

This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future. The handbook is divided into four subtopics that examine concepts of group and specific individual identity which have been chosen to provide methodologically sophisticated and multidisciplinary perspectives on specific categories of group and individual identity. The topics are Imperial Identities; Romanitas in the Late Antique Mediterranean; Macro and Micro Identities: Religious, Regional, and Ethnic Identities, and Internal Others; and Gendered Identities: Literature, Memory, and Self in Early and Middle Byzantium. While no single volume could ever provide a comprehensive vision of identities on the vast variety of peoples within Byzantium over nearly a millennium of its history, this handbook represents a milestone in offering a survey of the vibrant surge of scholarship examining the numerous and oft-times fluctuating codes of identity that shaped and transformed Byzantium and its neighbours during the empire’s long life.

Author : James Morton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198861140

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Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy by James Morton Pdf

Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy is a historical study of manuscripts containing Byzantine canon law produced after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, exploring how and why the Greek Christians of the region persisted in using them so long after the end of Byzantine rule.

Author : Agostino Paravicini Bagliani,Neslihan Şenocak
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501716799

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A People's Church by Agostino Paravicini Bagliani,Neslihan Şenocak Pdf

A People's Church brings together a distinguished international group of historians to provide a sweeping introduction to Christian religious life and institutions in medieval Italy. Each essay treats a single theme as broadly as possible, highlighting both the unique aspects of medieval Christianity on the Italian peninsula and the beliefs and practices it shared with other Christian societies. Because of its long tradition of communal self-governance, Christianity in medieval Italy, perhaps more than anywhere else, was truly a "people's church." At the same time, its exceptional urban wealth and literacy rates, along with its rich and varied intellectual and artistic culture, led to diverse forms of religious devotion and institutions. Contributors: Maria Pia Alberzoni on heresy; Frances Andrews on urban religion; Cécile Caby on monasticism; Giovanna Casagrande on mendicants; George Dameron on Florence; Antonella Degl'Innocenti on saints; Marina Gazzini on lay confraternities; Maureen C. Miller on bishops; Agostino Paravicini Bagliani and Pietro Silanos on the papacy and Italian politics; Antonio Rigon on clerical confraternities; Neslihan Şenocak on the pievi and care of souls; Giovanni Vitolo on Naples.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004307704

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A Companion to Byzantine Italy by Anonim Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004392885

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A Companion to Byzantine Poetry by Anonim Pdf

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 : Johannes Sipko Boersma,Eric M. Moormann
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040073853

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Mutatio Valentia by Johannes Sipko Boersma,Eric M. Moormann Pdf

Dutch excavations between 1984-1990 at localit S. Stefano in the centre of Valesio, the Brindisi region, have revealed the remains of the settlement from the pre-Roman through the Medieval period. This book reports on the excavations of the Imperial road station at Valesio, mutatio Valentia, including a bath building with stables. The reconstruction of the complex is preceded by a detailed description of the excavated remains. The Medieval casale that was built into the baths is also discussed. The architectural section is followed by chapters on the ceramics and other finds of the Imperial and Medieval periods from S. Stefano area.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004307742

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From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities by Anonim Pdf

From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique and Byzantine worlds, focusing on urban aspects of this paradigm between the fourth and thirteenth centuries.

Author : Karen Lüdtke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Ecstatic dance
ISBN : 1845454456

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Dances with Spiders by Karen Lüdtke Pdf

With its roots in one of the most well known and long-lasting healing rituals to be found in Europe, the tarantula's dance has now become a popular music and dance craze. In this book the author examines the history and evolution of the ritual.

Author : Averil Cameron
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633861127

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Arguing it Out by Averil Cameron Pdf

The long twelfth century, from the seizure of the throne by Alexius I Comnenus in 1081, to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, is a period recognized as fostering the most brilliant cultural development in Byzantine history, especially in its literary production. It was a time of intense creativity as well as of rising tensions, and one for which literary approaches are a lively area in current scholarship. This study focuses on the prose dialogues in Greek from this period—of very varying kinds—and on what they can tell us about the society and culture of an era when western Europe was itself developing a new culture of schools, universities, and scholars. Yet it was also the period in which Byzantium felt the fateful impact of the Crusades, which ended with the momentous sack of Constantinople in 1204. Despite revisionist attempts to play down the extent of this disaster, it was a blow from which, arguably, the Byzantines never fully recovered.

Author : Pamela A. Patton,Maria Alessia Rossi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 9780271095868

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

Author : Antony Eastmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107167568

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Tamta's World by Antony Eastmond Pdf

The compelling story of a thirteenth-century Christian noblewoman ransomed to the family of Saladin, made a ruler by the Mongols, and with extraordinary connections across continents and cultures from the Mediterranean to Mongolia. This book will be important for students and scholars of Byzantine, Crusader and Islamic history, art and architecture.

Author : Stefano Campana,Roberto Scopigno,Gabriella Carpentiero
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784913380

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CAA2015. Keep The Revolution Going by Stefano Campana,Roberto Scopigno,Gabriella Carpentiero Pdf

This volume brings together all the successful peer-reviewed papers submitted for the proceedings of the 43rd conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology that took place in Siena (Italy) from March 31st to April 2nd 2015.