Image making in Byzantium, Sasanian Persia, and the early Muslim world : images and cultures / Anthony Cutler
Material type: TextSeries: Collected studies ; CS905.Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 volume (various pagings), 57 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780754659495 (hardback : alk. paper); 0754659496 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Art, Byzantine | Islamic art | Byzantine Empire -- Relations -- Islamic countries | Islamic countries -- Relations -- Byzantine EmpireDDC classification: 709.56 LOC classification: N6250 | .C88 2008N6250 | .C88 2008Online resources: Table of contents onlyItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Visual communities in Byzantium and medieval Islam -- Silver across the Euphrates: forms of exchange between Sasanian Persia and the late Roman empire -- Constantinople and Córdoba: cultural exchange and cultural difference in the ninth and tenth centuries -- Ivory working in Umayyad Córdoba: techniques and implications -- A Christian ewer with Islamic imagery and the question of Arab Gastarbeiter in Byzantium -- The image of the word in Byzantium and Islam: an essay in art historical geodesy -- Gifts and gift exchanges as aspects of the Byzantine, Arab, and related economies -- Everywhere and nowhere: the invisible Muslim and Christian self-fashioning in the culture of Outremer -- The emperor's old clothes: actual and virtual vesting and the transmission of power in Byzantium and Islam -- The parallel universes of Arab and Byzantine art (with special reference to the Fatimid era) -- Tiles and tribulations: a community of clay across Byzantium and its adversaries -- Imagination and documentation: eagle silks in Byzantium, the Latin West and 'Abbāsid Baghdad -- Reuse of use? Theoretical and practical attitudes toward objects in the early Middle Ages