Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204 he Evidence of Art and Material Culture

Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204 The Evidence of Art and Material Culture Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Vicky Foskolou (eds) Pages: 572 p. Size:156 x 234 mm Illustrations:220 b/w, 35 col. Language(s):English Publication Year:2022 Buy print version ? 135,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE ISBN: 978-2-503-59850-5 Paperback Available This volume is a contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue on a crucial topic, viz. the relations between East and West and their reflection in art and culture in late medieval Greece. BIO Sophia Kalopissi-Verti is Professor Emerita of Byzantine Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is co-director of excavations of early Byzantine sites on the island of Kos (Dodecanese) and at Sinai, and the author of a book on Dedicatory Inscriptions and Donor Portraits in Thirteenth-Century Churches of Greece. Vicky Foskolou is Assistant Professor of Byzantine Archaeology at the University of Crete. Her research focuses on Byzantine monumental painting and iconography, cross-cultural exchanges between Byzantium and the West, and aspects of private devotion in the Byzantine world. SUMMARY Based on the evidence of artistic production and material culture this collective volume aims at exploring cross-cultural relations and interaction between Greeks and Latins in late medieval Greece in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. Fourteen essays discuss mostly new and unpublished archaeological and artistic material, including architecture, sculpture, wall-paintings and icons, pottery and other small finds, but also the evidence of music and poetry. Through the surviving material of these artistic activities this volume explores the way Byzantines and Latins lived side by side on the Greek mainland and the Aegean islands from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries and traces the mechanisms that led to the emergence of the new, composite world of the Latin East. Issues of identity, patronage, papal policy, the missionary activities of the Latin religious orders and the reactions and responses of the Byzantines are also re-considered, offering fresh insights into and a better understanding of the various manifestations of the interrelationship between the two ethnicities, confessions and cultures.