Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (275 pages)
Series Statement:
Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte 5
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dolezalek, Isabelle Arabic script on Christian kings
Titel der Quelle:
De Gruyter Open Books
Publ. der Quelle:
De Gruyter
Keywords:
Islamic textile fabrics History To 1500
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HEALTH & FITNESS ; Beauty & Grooming
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Islamic textile fabrics
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History
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Italy ; Sicily
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Electronic book
Abstract:
Frontmatter --Contents --Note on Dating and Transliterations --Preface --Introduction --Chapter I. Shaping Perceptions: Reading and Interpreting the Norman Arabic Textile Inscriptions --Chapter II. An Imported Ornament? Comparing the Functions of Textile Inscriptions in Sicily and Fatimid Egypt --Chapter III. Contextualising Ornament: Seeing and Reading Arabic Textile Inscriptions in Norman Public Display --Chapter IV. The Kufic Inscription on Roger II's Mantle: Continuity as a Political Choice --Chapter V.A Textile Archive: The Norman Alb as a Document of Political Authority --Conclusion --Appendix --Image Credits.
Abstract:
Arabische Schrift - Ornament im Kontext
Abstract:
Roger II's famous mantle and other royal garments from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Sicily prominently display Arabic inscriptions. While the phenomenon is highly unusual in the context of Latin Christian kingship, the use of inscriptions as a textile ornament was common and imbued with political functions in the Islamic courts of the medieval Mediterranean. This case study of the inscribed garments from Norman Sicily draws attention to the diverse functions of Arabic textile inscriptions using various contextual frames. Such a contextual approach not only highlights the specificities of the Norman textile inscriptions and emphasises the practical and political choices underlying their use at the Sicilian court, it also pinpoints the flaws of universalising approaches to transcultural ornamental in circulation in the medieval Mediterranean. This new perspective on the royal garments from Norman Sicily draws from a variety of disciplines, including Islamic and European art history, the history of textiles, epigraphy, legal history and historiography, and aims to challenge established notions of cultural and disciplinary boundaries
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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In English
URN:
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201706286255
URN:
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201706286579
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