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In Praise of Song - The Making of Courtly Culture in al-Andalus and Provence, 1005-1134 A.D. (Hardcover)
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In Praise of Song - The Making of Courtly Culture in al-Andalus and Provence, 1005-1134 A.D. (Hardcover)
Series: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 15
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This volume offers a reconstruction of the court culture of the
taifa kings of al-Andalus (11th century A.D.), using both visual
and textual evidence. A focus of particular attention is the court
of the Ban? H?d at Zaragoza, and that dynasty's palace, the
Aljaferma. Principle written sources are not histories and
chronicles, but the untranslated poetic anthologies of al-?imyar?
and al-Fat? ibn Kh?q?n.
The first part of the book addresses taifa visual and literary
languages, with especial emphasis on connections between the
literary and visual aspects of taifa aesthetics. The sections on
the Aljaferma's ornamental program will be of particular interest,
not only to historians of Islamic art, but to students of all
visual traditions with strong non-figural components.
In addition, Part One also proposes that taifa court culture has
been considered as a culture of "courtly love," and this argument
also forms the point of departure for Part Two. The second part of
the study uses luxury objects of Islamic and Limousine production
as a point of departure for a detailed comparison of the thematics
of taifa poetry in classical Arabic on the themes of courtly love
and pleasures with those of the better-known Provengal tradition.
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