ISBN:
9781351244930
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (312 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies v.22
Parallel Title:
Print version Lymberopoulou, Angeliki Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669 : Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway?
DDC:
303.48249504500902
Keywords:
Byzantine Empire Congresses Foreign relations
;
Byzantine Empire Congresses Civilization
Abstract:
"The early modern Mediterranean was an area where many different rich cultural traditions came in contact with each other, were often forced to co-exist, and frequently learned to reap the benefits of co-operation. Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Jews, and their interactions all contributed significantly to the cultural development of modern Europe. The aim of this volume is to address, explore, re-examine and re-interpret one specific aspect of this cross-cultural interaction in the Mediterranean - that between the Byzantine East and the (mainly Italian) West. The investigation of this interaction has become increasingly popular in the past few decades, not least due to the relevance it has for cultural exchanges in our present-day society. The starting point is provided by the fall of Constantinople to the troops of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. In the aftermath of the fall, a number of Byzantine territories came under prolonged Latin occupation, an occupation that forced Greeks and Latins to adapt their life socially and religiously to the new status quo. Venetian Crete developed one of the most fertile 'bi-cultural' societies, which evolved over 458 years. Its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1669 marked the end of an era and was hence chosen as the end point for the conference. By sampling case studies from the most representative areas where this interaction took place, the volume highlights the process as well as the significance of its cultural development."--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Editorial policy -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 Byzantium and the West: Evidence from Crete -- 2 Cultural interaction in Candia: Case studies in a developing early modern multi-ethnic community -- 3 Aspects of artistic exchange on Crete: Questions concerning the presence of Venetian painters on the island in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- 4 The Fogg triptych: Testimony of a case study to the society and artistic production of Venetian Crete -- 5 Artistic interactions between Byzantium and Italy in the Palaiologan era: The case of Hell -- Part 2 Byzantium and the West: Evidence from Cyprus -- 6 The Byzantine tradition in late medieval Cyprus: Selective continuity and creative diversification -- 7 Giotto's quadrilobes: Transmigrations of Italianate ornaments in the eastern Mediterranean -- 8 East is East and West is West? Artistic interchange across frontiers in the eastern Mediterranean -- Part 3 Byzantium and the West: Evidence from the Peloponnese -- 9 Between East and West: Locating monumental painting from the Peloponnese -- 10 The elephant on the page: Ciriaco d'Ancona in Mystras -- Part 4 Byzantium and the West: Evidence from the wider Mediterranean -- 11 Space, place and culture: Processions across the Mediterranean -- 12 Sister, widow, consort, bride: Four Latin ladies in Greece (1330-1430) -- 13 Made in Byzantium? Mosaics after 1204 -- 14 The Royal Deesis - an anti-Latin image of late Byzantine art -- 15 Epeiros between Byzantium and the West in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries: Visual evidence -- 16 The fate of bells under Ottoman rule: Between destruction and negotiation
Abstract:
17 Illustrated medical manuscripts in late Palaiologan Constantinople and their fortune in sixteenth-century Italy -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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