Byzantium, Eastern Christendom and Islam : art at the crossroads of the medieval Mediterranean /
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Language: | English |
Imprint: | London : Pindar Press, 1998-2000. |
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Table of Contents:
- Vol. 1. Byzantine and post-Byzantine art. The Byzantine mosaics of Jordan in context : remarks on imagery, donors and mosaicists ; Comnenian aristocratic palace decoration : descriptions and Islamic connections ; Iconic and aniconic : unknown thirteenth and fourteenth century Byzantine icons from Cairo in their woodwork settings ; Note on an unknown 'Italo-Cretan' icon in Cairo ; Note on a 16th century Cretan crucifixion icon in Egypt
- Christian art in, or from, Medieval Egypt. The commissioning of a late twelfth century Gospel book : the frontispieces of MS Paris, Bibl. Nat. Copte 13 ; The fine incense of virginity : a late twelfth century wall-painting of the Annunciation at the Monastery of the Syrians, Egypt ; Christian-Muslim relations in painting in Egypt of the twefth to mid-thirteenth centuries : sources of wallpainting at Deir es-Suriani and the illustration of the New testament MS Paris, Copte-Arape 1/Cairo, Bibl. 94 ; The al-Mu'allaqa doors reconstructed : an early fourteenth-century sanctuary screen from old Cairo ; Churches of old Cairo and mosques of Al-Qāhira : a case of Christian-Muslim interchange
- Christian art in post-Medieval Egypt. Christian manuscript production under Ottoman rule : note on an illustrated seventeenth-century Copto-Arabic lectionary in Cairo
- vol. 2. Christian art in, or from, medieval Syria: Cultural transmission: illustrated biblical manuscripts from the medieval Eastern Christian and Arab worlds
- The Syriac Buchanan Bible in Cambridge: book illumination in Syria, Cilicia and Jerusalem of the later twelfth century
- A woman's prayer to St. Sergios in Latin Syria: interpreting a thirteenth-century icon at Mount Sinai
- Eternal light and life: a thirteenth-century icon from the monastery of the Syrians, Egypt, and the Jerusalem pascal liturgy
- Manuscript production by Christians in the 13th-14th century Greater Syria and Mesopotamia and related areas
- Art and architecture of the period of the crusades: Damascus Gate, Jersualem, and crusader wallpainting of the mid-twelfth century
- Art and colonalism: the mosaics of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (1169) and the problem of 'crusader' art
- Artistic and cultural inter-relations between the Christian communities at the the Holy Sepulchre in the 12th century
- 'Excommunicata Generatione': Christian imagery of mission and conversion of the Muslim Other between the First Crusade and the early fourteenth century
- Introducing the catalogue, in progress, of the illustrated manuscripts in the Coptic Museum, Old Cairo.