Saint George Between Empires
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Saint George Between Empires

Image and Encounter in the Medieval East

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eBook - PDF

Saint George Between Empires

Image and Encounter in the Medieval East

About this book

This volume examines Saint George's intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how rival conceptions of this well-known saint became central to Crusader, Eastern Christian, and Islamic medieval visual cultures.

Saint George Between Empires links the visual cultures of Byzantium, North Africa, the Levant, Syria, and the Caucasus during the Crusader era to redraw our picture of interfaith relations and artistic networks. Heather Badamo recovers and recontextualizes a vast body of images and literature—from etiquette manuals and romances to miracle accounts and chronicles—to describe the history of Saint George during a period of religious and political fragmentation, between his "rise" to cross-cultural prominence in the eleventh century and his "globalization" in the fifteenth. In Badamo's analysis, George emerges as an exemplar of cross-cultural encounter and global translation.

Featuring important new research on monuments and artworks that are no longer available to scholars as a result of the occupation of Syria and parts of Iraq, Saint George Between Empires will be welcomed by scholars of Byzantine, medieval, Islamic, and Eastern Christian art and cultural studies.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Notes to Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: A Muslim in the Faith of Jesus
  7. Notes to Chapter 1
  8. Chapter 2: Holy Warriors and Imperial Aspirations
  9. Notes to Chapter 2
  10. Chapter 3: Dragons and Charismatic Heroes
  11. Notes to Chapter 3
  12. Chapter 4: The Culture of Slavery and the Salvation of Souls
  13. Notes to Chapter 4
  14. Chapter 5: Spiritual Combat and Coptic Authority in Ayyūbid Egypt
  15. Notes to Chapter 5
  16. Chapter 6: Jacobite Hi stories of the Crusades
  17. Notes to Chapter 6
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index