Textile Connections? Two Ifrīqiyan Church Treasuries in Norman Sicily and the Problem of Continuity across Political Change

Dolezalek, Isabelle

doi:10.1080/09503110.2013.767009

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Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400

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Williams²,

Shea

2023

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This study considers the textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages with special attention to the socio-political and cultural aspects of this universal medium. It presents a wide range of textiles used in both domestic and religious settings, as dress and furnishings, and for elite and ordinary owners. The introduction presents historiographical background to the study of textiles and explains the conditions of their survival in archaeological contexts and museums. A section on the materials and techniques used to produce textiles if followed by those outlining textile production, industry, and trade across Eurasia. Further sections examine the uses for dress and furnishing textiles and the appearance of imported fabrics in European contexts, addressing textiles' functions and uses in medieval societies. Lastly, a concluding section on textile aesthetics connects fabrics to their broader visual and material context.

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Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400

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2023

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The King, His Chapel, His Church. Boundaries and Hybridity in the Religious Visual Culture of the Norman Kingdom

Bongianino

2017

Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies

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The creation of the Norman kingdom of Sicily was complemented by the development of a unique court milieu encompassing elements from the Latin West, Byzantium, and the Islamic world. The churches of Palermo, in particular, became the focus of a sophisticated project of experimentation and combination of different artistic traditions, to convey an artificial image of equilibrium among élites and communities of three different denominations: Latin, Greek-Byzantine, and Arabo-Christian. Through the creation and subversion of architectural boundaries, the promotion of certain forms of visual hybridity, the transgression of artistic media, and the articulation of new liminal spaces, the Norman rulers transformed their churches and cathedrals into an ideal stage for performing their liturgy of kingship, and conveying the message of a multi-faceted religious system unified and harmonized only through the king, as supreme head of the Church and vicar of Christ.

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Textile Connections? Two Ifrīqiyan Church Treasuries in Norman Sicily and the Problem of Continuity across Political Change

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Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400

Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400

The King, His Chapel, His Church. Boundaries and Hybridity in the Religious Visual Culture of the Norman Kingdom

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