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Cornell University Press, 2023
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Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages is a panoramic survey that focuses on the arts of medieva... more Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages is a panoramic survey that focuses on the arts of medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamicate world. From majestic monuments to exquisite tableware, Jill Caskey, Adam S. Cohen, and Linda Safran deftly guide readers over twelve centuries of art and architecture created by the diverse peoples and religious groups of western Eurasia and North Africa.
This textbook, intended for a wide range of courses in the history of medieval art and architecture, uniquely features:
• More than 450 color illustrations of fascinating works produced between ca. 250 CE and ca. 1450 CE
• Coverage of secular and religious arts, including polytheistic, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions
• Informational text boxes on key issues and a glossary of terms
• Diverse cultures interwoven in a single chronological framework
• Five broad interpretive themes—artistic production, status and identity, connection to the past, ideology, and access to the sacred
Complemented by a website (artofthemiddleages.com) with additional works, dynamic maps and timelines, podcasts, new primary-source translations, and more, Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages brilliantly expands and recalibrates the story of medieval art history.
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The Diagram as Paradigm: Cross-Cultural Approaches, ed. Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David A. Roxburgh, and Linda Safran, 2022
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Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population betw... more 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.
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This volume approaches the problem of the canonical “center” by looking at art and architecture o... more This volume approaches the problem of the canonical “center” by looking at art and architecture on the borders of the medieval world, from China to Armenia, Sweden, and Spain. Seven contributors engage three distinct yet related problems: margins, frontiers, ...
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Description: Leiden: Brill, 2011. 28cm., pbk., 229pp. illus. Summary: This volume approaches the ... more Description: Leiden: Brill, 2011. 28cm., pbk., 229pp. illus. Summary: This volume approaches the problem of the canonical “center” by looking at art and architecture on the borders of the medieval world, from China to Armenia, Sweden, and Spain. Seven contributors engage three distinct yet related problems: margins, frontiers, and cross-cultural encounters. While not displaying a unified methodology or privileging specific theoretical constructs, the essays emphasize how strategies of representation articulated ownership and identity within contested arenas. What is contested is both medieval (the material evidence itself) and modern (the scholarly traditionsin which the evidence has or has not been embedded). An introduction by the editors places the essays within historiographic and pedagogical frameworks. Contents: Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Art and Cultural Exchange: Theoretical Perspectives ; Cynthia Robinson, Towers, Birds and Divine Light: The Contested Territory of Nasrid and "Mudéjar" Ornament ; Jill Caskey, Stuccoes from the Early Norman Period in Sicily: Figuration, Fabrication and Integration ; Ethel Sara Wolper, Khidr and the Changing Frontiers of the Medieval World ; Christina Maranci, Locating Armenia ; Jennifer Purtle, The Far Side: Expatriate Medieval Art and Its Languages in Sino-Mongol China ; Nancy L. Wicker, Would There Have Been Gothic Art Without the Vikings? The Contribution of Scandinavian Medieval Art.
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Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium, ed. Linda Safran (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press), 1998
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This is the English half of the bilingual book San Pietro at Otranto: Byzantine Art in South Ital... more This is the English half of the bilingual book San Pietro at Otranto: Byzantine Art in South Italy / San Pietro ad Otranto: Arte bizantina in Italia meridionale, Collana di studio di storia dell'arte 7, ed. Mario D'Onofrio
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From Sinai to Southern Italy: The Symbolic Geography of Saint Catherine, 2023
This paper evaluates the evidence for the cult of Saint Catherine of Alexandria/Sinai in Byzantin... more This paper evaluates the evidence for the cult of Saint Catherine of Alexandria/Sinai in Byzantine and post-Byzantine southern Italy as a way of interrogating Byzantium’s symbolic geography. It considers the movement of people and books both eastward and westward; hagiotoponyms, onomastics, and literary evidence; Catherine’s relics and frescoed vita cycles in Italy; and architectural analogies between one of the saint’s cult sites in Italy and her basilica on Mount Sinai.
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Letters in the Dust: The Epigraphy and Archaeology of Medieval Jewish Cemeteries, ed. Leonard V. Rutgers and Ortal-Paz Saar (Leuven: Peeters), 2023
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ICMA News, 2022
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artofthemiddleages.com, 2022
The website features galleries of medieval objects, buildings, and cities, as well as pedagogical... more The website features galleries of medieval objects, buildings, and cities, as well as pedagogical tools (plans, maps, timelines, glossary, and translated primary sources); the podcast Medieval Art Matters illuminates connections between medieval art and real-world professional practitioners.
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Illuminations: Studies Presented to Lioba Theis, ed. G. Fingarova, F. Gargova, M. Mullett, 2022
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Global Byzantium Papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, ed. Leslie Brubaker, Rebecca Darley, Daniel Reynolds, 2022
This chapter reviews textual, cartographic, and material evidence for contact between China and B... more This chapter reviews textual, cartographic, and material evidence for contact between China and Byzantium from the fifth to the mid-eighth century. Objects from ‘Fulin’ found in tombs indicate that Byzantine goods, especially gold coins, reached China via Turkic and Sogdian intermediaries, where they inspired imitations. They seem to have been valued not only for their material but also for their positive associations with the West, associated with immortality and divinity. Evidence for transcultural flow westward is more limited and later in date, but ties with faraway China support the conclusion that Byzantium was a ‘global’ civilisation in the early Byzantine centuries.
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in The Diagram as Paradigm: Cross-Cultural Approaches, ed. Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David A. Roxburgh, and Linda Safran, 2022
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in The Diagram as Paradigm: Cross-Cultural Approaches, ed. Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David A. Roxburgh, and Linda Safran, 2022
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Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament, ed. Elina Gertsman, 2021
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In Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament, ed. Elina Gertsman, 2021
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in The Visualization of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. M. Kupfer, A. S. Cohen, J. H. Chajes (Turnhout: Brepols), 2020
This paper is, quite literally, a first word about the subject of Byzantine diagrams as a whole. ... more This paper is, quite literally, a first word about the subject of Byzantine diagrams as a whole. Neither the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, nor Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, nor the Reallexikon zur byzantinischen Kunst has an entry on diagrams, and the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Byzantium contains not a single mention of the term. I survey the various types of diagrams included in Byzantine manuscripts from the eighth to the sixteenth century. I classify them by subject and consider selected examples in detail, then conclude with observations about the differences between Byzantine and Western medieval diagrams and why these differences exist.
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Cornell University Press, 2023
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Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages is a panoramic survey that focuses on the arts of medieva... more Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages is a panoramic survey that focuses on the arts of medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamicate world. From majestic monuments to exquisite tableware, Jill Caskey, Adam S. Cohen, and Linda Safran deftly guide readers over twelve centuries of art and architecture created by the diverse peoples and religious groups of western Eurasia and North Africa.
This textbook, intended for a wide range of courses in the history of medieval art and architecture, uniquely features:
• More than 450 color illustrations of fascinating works produced between ca. 250 CE and ca. 1450 CE
• Coverage of secular and religious arts, including polytheistic, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions
• Informational text boxes on key issues and a glossary of terms
• Diverse cultures interwoven in a single chronological framework
• Five broad interpretive themes—artistic production, status and identity, connection to the past, ideology, and access to the sacred
Complemented by a website (artofthemiddleages.com) with additional works, dynamic maps and timelines, podcasts, new primary-source translations, and more, Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages brilliantly expands and recalibrates the story of medieval art history.
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The Diagram as Paradigm: Cross-Cultural Approaches, ed. Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David A. Roxburgh, and Linda Safran, 2022
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Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population betw... more 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.
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This volume approaches the problem of the canonical “center” by looking at art and architecture o... more This volume approaches the problem of the canonical “center” by looking at art and architecture on the borders of the medieval world, from China to Armenia, Sweden, and Spain. Seven contributors engage three distinct yet related problems: margins, frontiers, ...
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Description: Leiden: Brill, 2011. 28cm., pbk., 229pp. illus. Summary: This volume approaches the ... more Description: Leiden: Brill, 2011. 28cm., pbk., 229pp. illus. Summary: This volume approaches the problem of the canonical “center” by looking at art and architecture on the borders of the medieval world, from China to Armenia, Sweden, and Spain. Seven contributors engage three distinct yet related problems: margins, frontiers, and cross-cultural encounters. While not displaying a unified methodology or privileging specific theoretical constructs, the essays emphasize how strategies of representation articulated ownership and identity within contested arenas. What is contested is both medieval (the material evidence itself) and modern (the scholarly traditionsin which the evidence has or has not been embedded). An introduction by the editors places the essays within historiographic and pedagogical frameworks. Contents: Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Art and Cultural Exchange: Theoretical Perspectives ; Cynthia Robinson, Towers, Birds and Divine Light: The Contested Territory of Nasrid and "Mudéjar" Ornament ; Jill Caskey, Stuccoes from the Early Norman Period in Sicily: Figuration, Fabrication and Integration ; Ethel Sara Wolper, Khidr and the Changing Frontiers of the Medieval World ; Christina Maranci, Locating Armenia ; Jennifer Purtle, The Far Side: Expatriate Medieval Art and Its Languages in Sino-Mongol China ; Nancy L. Wicker, Would There Have Been Gothic Art Without the Vikings? The Contribution of Scandinavian Medieval Art.
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Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium, ed. Linda Safran (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press), 1998
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This is the English half of the bilingual book San Pietro at Otranto: Byzantine Art in South Ital... more This is the English half of the bilingual book San Pietro at Otranto: Byzantine Art in South Italy / San Pietro ad Otranto: Arte bizantina in Italia meridionale, Collana di studio di storia dell'arte 7, ed. Mario D'Onofrio
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From Sinai to Southern Italy: The Symbolic Geography of Saint Catherine, 2023
This paper evaluates the evidence for the cult of Saint Catherine of Alexandria/Sinai in Byzantin... more This paper evaluates the evidence for the cult of Saint Catherine of Alexandria/Sinai in Byzantine and post-Byzantine southern Italy as a way of interrogating Byzantium’s symbolic geography. It considers the movement of people and books both eastward and westward; hagiotoponyms, onomastics, and literary evidence; Catherine’s relics and frescoed vita cycles in Italy; and architectural analogies between one of the saint’s cult sites in Italy and her basilica on Mount Sinai.
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Letters in the Dust: The Epigraphy and Archaeology of Medieval Jewish Cemeteries, ed. Leonard V. Rutgers and Ortal-Paz Saar (Leuven: Peeters), 2023
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ICMA News, 2022
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artofthemiddleages.com, 2022
The website features galleries of medieval objects, buildings, and cities, as well as pedagogical... more The website features galleries of medieval objects, buildings, and cities, as well as pedagogical tools (plans, maps, timelines, glossary, and translated primary sources); the podcast Medieval Art Matters illuminates connections between medieval art and real-world professional practitioners.
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Illuminations: Studies Presented to Lioba Theis, ed. G. Fingarova, F. Gargova, M. Mullett, 2022
Contact me for a PDF.
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Global Byzantium Papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, ed. Leslie Brubaker, Rebecca Darley, Daniel Reynolds, 2022
This chapter reviews textual, cartographic, and material evidence for contact between China and B... more This chapter reviews textual, cartographic, and material evidence for contact between China and Byzantium from the fifth to the mid-eighth century. Objects from ‘Fulin’ found in tombs indicate that Byzantine goods, especially gold coins, reached China via Turkic and Sogdian intermediaries, where they inspired imitations. They seem to have been valued not only for their material but also for their positive associations with the West, associated with immortality and divinity. Evidence for transcultural flow westward is more limited and later in date, but ties with faraway China support the conclusion that Byzantium was a ‘global’ civilisation in the early Byzantine centuries.
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in The Diagram as Paradigm: Cross-Cultural Approaches, ed. Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David A. Roxburgh, and Linda Safran, 2022
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in The Diagram as Paradigm: Cross-Cultural Approaches, ed. Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David A. Roxburgh, and Linda Safran, 2022
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Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament, ed. Elina Gertsman, 2021
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In Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament, ed. Elina Gertsman, 2021
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in The Visualization of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. M. Kupfer, A. S. Cohen, J. H. Chajes (Turnhout: Brepols), 2020
This paper is, quite literally, a first word about the subject of Byzantine diagrams as a whole. ... more This paper is, quite literally, a first word about the subject of Byzantine diagrams as a whole. Neither the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, nor Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, nor the Reallexikon zur byzantinischen Kunst has an entry on diagrams, and the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Byzantium contains not a single mention of the term. I survey the various types of diagrams included in Byzantine manuscripts from the eighth to the sixteenth century. I classify them by subject and consider selected examples in detail, then conclude with observations about the differences between Byzantine and Western medieval diagrams and why these differences exist.
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in The Eloquence of Art: Essays in Honour of Henry Maguire, ed. A. Olsen Lam and R. Schroeder (London: Routledge), 2020
“Li Monaci” is now the name of a winery in the heel of the Italian boot, but this former fortifie... more “Li Monaci” is now the name of a winery in the heel of the Italian boot, but this former fortified farmstead has a subterranean chapel that may once have served a group of monks (monaci). While most of the paintings in the rectangular chapel have disappeared, those on the east wall are well preserved and include saints and Christian narrative scenes, all with bilingual (Latin and Greek) inscriptions, as well as a long dedicatory text in Greek that names the patron and artists and provides the date 1314/15. The ceiling is adorned with frescoed flowers, stars, a large cross, and a unique embracing couple that evokes courtly imagery and the Song of Songs. Li Monaci thus reveals the interweaving of Byzantinizing and "Western" pictorial and textual cultures. The calendrical interpretation proposed here, focusing on Easter and springtime, touches on Henry Maguire’s interest in texts and images, the efficacy of images, and the natural world
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by Foteini Spingou, Charles Barber, Nathan Leidholm, Thomas Carlson, Ivan Drpić, Alexandros (Alexander) Alexakis, elizabeth jeffreys, Theocharis Tsampouras, Mircea G . Duluș, Nikos Zagklas, Ida Toth, Alexander Riehle, Brad Hostetler, Michael Featherstone, Emmanuel C Bourbouhakis, Shannon Steiner, Efthymios Rizos, Divna Manolova, Robert Romanchuk, Maria Tomadaki, Kirsty Stewart, Baukje van den Berg, Katarzyna Warcaba, Florin Leonte, Vasileios Marinis, Ludovic Bender, Linda Safran, Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Rachele Ricceri, Luisa Andriollo, Alex J Novikoff, Annemarie Carr, Marina Bazzani, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Renaat Meesters, Daphne (Dafni) / Δάφνη Penna / Πέννα, Annemarie Carr, Alexander Alexakis, Jeremy Johns, Maria Parani, Lisa Mahoney, Irena Spadijer, and Ilias Taxidis
ISBN: 9781108483056 Series: Sources for Byzantine Art History 3 In this book the beauty and m... more ISBN: 9781108483056
Series: Sources for Byzantine Art History 3
In this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries. The first part uncovers salient aspects of Byzantine artistic production and its aesthetic reception, while the second puts a spotlight on particular ways of expressing admiration and of interpreting of the visual.
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The Eloquence of Art: Essays in Honour of Henry Maguire, 2020
For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs n... more For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs no introduction. His publications transformed the way art historians approach medieval art through his insightful integration of rhetoric, poetry and non-canonical objects into the study of Byzantine art. His ground-breaking studies of Byzantine art that consider the natural world, magic, and imperial imagery, among other themes, have re-defined the ways medieval art is interpreted. From notable monuments to small-scale and privately-used objects, Maguire’s work has guided a generation of scholars to new conclusions about the place of art and its function in Byzantium. In this volume, twenty-three of Henry Maguire’s colleagues and friends have contributed papers in his honour, resulting in studies that reflect the broad range of his scholarly interests.
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](The authors of this contribution are medieval art historians, married to each other, who particip... more The authors of this contribution are medieval art historians, married to each other, who participated from in a “Connecting Art Histories” initiative funded by the J. Paul Getty Foundation. Titled “Global and Postglobal Perspectives on Medieval Art and Art History,” it involved exchange teaching and funded eld trips with graduate students and faculty from the University of Toronto and the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA), in southern China. In the fall of , Linda Safran taught two courses at GAFA: a large undergraduate survey of medieval art and architecture and a small MA- level seminar on medieval Sicily, in anticipation of a trip to Sicily in February . In the fall of that year, Adam Cohen offered a graduate seminar on medieval manuscript
illumination to many of the same students at GAFA. The authors were able to augment memories of their seminar meetings with audio recordings made by the students.
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There are different ways to understand a text beyond the most common method of sequential reading... more There are different ways to understand a text beyond the most common
method of sequential reading. Examining the mise-en-page—that is, the design or impagination of the space devoted to writing—can help us move beyond the language of the text itself to get closer to its reception. Three inscriptions in Greek (a dedicatory stela of a hospital in Andrano, a painted epitaph in a subterranean chapel at Carpignano, and an incised funerary text at S. Maria di Cerrate) and two incised in Hebrew (both
from Brindisi) are studied here. The manipulation of such features as composition, color, or the size and placement of certain words helps create additional meaning in these texts that transcends a simple reading. The mise-en-page creates a space between the textual and visual worlds that accords agency to the planner, craftsman, and readers
of the text.
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Medieval Jewish cemeteries are found at the crossroads of epigraphy, archaeology and conservation... more Medieval Jewish cemeteries are found at the crossroads of epigraphy, archaeology and conservation, three disciplines that should, but do not easily, intersect. Much of the epigraphic evidence has been decontextualized when Jewish medieval gravestones have been uprooted and reused as building material. Fortunately, many of them survive in non-original locations, their inscriptions still visible. Conversely, for understandable religious sensitivities, archaeological excavations are not conducted in burial grounds whose headstones are still in situ. Thus, data is analysed as two distinct sets: textual or material, though scholars could benefit from engaging with each other's records. This workshop aims to provide a forum for collaboration, ultimately reuniting – although figuratively – the medieval funerary inscriptions with the men, women and children they sought to commemorate.
This academic workshop is kindly sponsored by the European Association of Jewish Studies, through its Conference Grant Programme. The workshop will take place at Utrecht University, on 7-8 November 2016, and will include thirteen participants from eight different countries. Additionally, the workshop will be exhibited to the public on https://diaspora.sites.uu.nl/workshop/ including the abstracts of all papers, accompanied by slides of the PowerPoint presentations; edited and abridged video recordings of the papers, and a discussion page open to visitors worldwide, where dialogue may continue.
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Medieval Jewish cemeteries are found at the crossroads of epigraphy, archaeology and conservation... more Medieval Jewish cemeteries are found at the crossroads of epigraphy, archaeology and conservation, three disciplines that should, but do not easily, intersect. Much of the epigraphic evidence has been decontextualized when Jewish medieval gravestones have been uprooted and reused as building material. Fortunately, many of them survive in non-original locations, their inscriptions still visible. Conversely, for understandable religious sensitivities, archaeological excavations are not conducted in burial grounds whose headstones are still in situ. Thus, data is analysed as two distinct sets: textual or material, though scholars could benefit from engaging with each other's records. This workshop aims to provide a forum for collaboration, ultimately reuniting – although figuratively – the medieval funerary inscriptions with the men, women and children they sought to commemorate. This academic workshop is kindly sponsored by the European Association of Jewish Studies, through its Conference Grant Programme. The workshop will take place at Utrecht University, on 7-8 November 2016, and will include thirteen participants from eight different countries, as listed below. Additionally, the workshop will be exhibited to the public on https://diaspora.sites.uu.nl/workshop/ including the abstracts of all papers, accompanied by slides of the PowerPoint presentations; edited and abridged video recordings of the papers, and a discussion page open to visitors worldwide, where dialogue may continue.
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This open-access website for medieval art and architecture includes a wide-ranging gallery of wor... more This open-access website for medieval art and architecture includes a wide-ranging gallery of works, plans, maps, timelines, illustrated glossary, translated primary sources, and podcasts. The website supplements (but does not duplicate) Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connected World (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023), https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501702822/art-and-architecture-of-the-middle-ages/
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