Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (480 S.)
,
Ill.
Edition:
2014
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Meek, Christine [Rezension von: Safran, Linda, The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Medieval Italy] 2015
Series Statement:
The Middle Ages Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Medieval Salento : Art and Identity in Southern Italy
DDC:
306.4/60945753
Keywords:
History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Main description: The Medieval Salento explores the visual and material culture of people who lived and died in this region between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, showing the ways Jews, Orthodox Christians, and Roman-rite Christians used images, artifacts, and texts in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin to construct both independent and intersecting identities.
Abstract:
Biographical note: Linda Safran is a Research Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, and editor of the journal Gesta.
Description / Table of Contents:
FrontmatterContentsNoteIntroductionChapter 1. NamesChapter 2. LanguagesChapter 3. AppearanceChapter 4. StatusChapter 5. The Life CycleChapter 6. Rituals and Other Practices in Places of WorshipChapter 7. Rituals and Practices at Home and in the CommunityChapter 8. Theorizing Salentine IdentityDatabase: Sites in the Salento with Texts and Images Informative About Identity. Teil 1Database: Sites in the Salento with Texts and Images Informative About Identity. Teil 2NotesWorks CitedIndexAcknowledgments.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.9783/9780812208917
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