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Archaeology and Economic Development (Paperback)
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The sixteen papers collected in this volume explore points of
contact across the Latin, Greek and Islamic worlds between c. 1000
and c. 1250. They arise from a conference organized by the British
Archaeological Association in Palermo in 2012, and reflect its
interest in patterns of cultural exchange across the Mediterranean,
ranging from the importation of artefacts - textiles, ceramics,
ivories and metalwork for the most part - to a specific desire to
recruit eastern artists or emulate eastern Mediterranean buildings.
The individual essays cover a wide range of topics and media: from
the ways in which the Cappella Palatina in Palermo fostered
contacts between Muslim artists and Christian models, the
importance of dress and textiles in the wider world of
Mediterranean design, and the possible use of Muslim-trained
sculptors in the emergent architectural sculpture of
late-11th-century northern Spain, to the significance of western
saints in the development of Bethlehem as a pilgrimage centre and
of eastern painters and techniques in the proliferation of panel
painting in Catalonia around 1200. There are studies of buildings
and the ideological purpose behind them at Canosa (Apulia),
Feldebro (Hungary) and Charroux (Aquitaine), comparative studies of
the domed churches of western France, significant reappraisals of
the porphyry tombs in Palermo cathedral, the pictorial programme
adopted in the Baptistery at Parma, and of the chapter-house
paintings at Sigena, and wide-ranging papers on the migration of
images of exotic creatures across the Mediterranean and on that
most elusive and apparently Mediteranean of objects - the Oliphant.
The volume concludes with a study of the emergence of a
supra-regional style of architectural sculpture in the western
Mediterranean and evident in Barcelona, Tarragona and Provence. It
is a third volume, based on the British Archaeological
Association's 2014 Conference in Barcelona, will explore Romanesque
Patrons and Processes.
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