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Designing Norman Sicily: Material Culture and Society

Designing Norman Sicily: Material Culture and Society

Fitzgerald, Liam
Small, Andrew
Winkler, Emily A.

Hardcover

Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, Book 18

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryEuropean ArtArchitecture History

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ISBN10: 1783274891
ISBN13: 9781783274895
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Mar 20 2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Essays showing how the stuff of Norman Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and architecture, was used to construct its history.

Material culture played a crucial role in developing the cultural narrative of Norman Sicily. The essays in this book consider how images, designs, artifacts, structures and objects were used to help create the story of the medieval kingdom, and what they reveal about the complex political and social dynamics that underpinned the so-called multicultural state. Arguing that a visual language developed in medieval Sicily and southern Italy in this period, the contributions journey through both familiar and unexplored aspects of Siculo-Norman art, in particular those areas which have only been made possible with recent advances in technology and international academic collaboration. Topics addressed include manuscripts and mosaics, textile diplomacy, the drama of coins and trade, new readings of old buildings, and the insights of archaeological excavations into everyday life. All of the ideas presented in this volume converge on the central theme of how material culture helped to develop story and society in the medieval kingdom of Sicily.

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