Images of otherness in medieval and early modern times : exclusion, inclusion and assimilation / edited by Anja Eisenbeiss, Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch.

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Book
Language
English
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Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2012.
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158 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

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    From French miniature paintings to the work of Pope Pius II, this collection of essays explores the philosophical history behind medieval European art. The essays reveal how a visual vocabulary was established among French miniature painters to express the concepts of personal identity and alterity in their work and how Pope Pius II helped spread these metaphysical ideologies across the eastern Christian world. An exhaustive and articulate guide to European art in the Middle Ages, this book is essential reading for art students and enthusiasts alike.
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    International conference proceedings.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Facets of otherness and affirmation of the self / Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch
    • The metamorphic other and the discourse of alterity in Parisian miniatures of the fourteenth century / Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch
    • The turbaned and the hatted : figures of alterity in early modern Thai visual culture / Maurizio Peleggi
    • Alterity and the Palaiologan hat : dress and othernesss in the portraits of the Byzantine Emperor John VIII by Pisanello and Filarete / Joyce Kubiski
    • Skin and the meeting of cultures : outward and visible signs of alterity in the medieval Christian east / Lucy-Anne Hunt
    • Distant knowledge : images of learned discourse in Saint Augustine's City of God / Anja Eisenbeiss
    • The other's images : Christian iconoclasm and the charge of Muslim idolatry in medieval Europe / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
    • "Tra il diavolo di Rustico e il ninferno d'Alibech" : Muslims and Jews in Boccaccio's Decameron / John Tolan
    • Inventing Europe with Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini / Nancy Bisaha
    • Faith, blood, and the reliability of conversion : the Directorium ad passagium faciendum (1332) / Felicitas Schmieder.
    ISBN
    • 9783422070691 ((hd. bd.))
    • 3422070699 ((hd. bd.))
    LCCN
    2012415323
    OCLC
    785864798
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