Medieval Eurabia: Religious Crosspollinations in Architecture, Art and Material Culture during the High and Late Middle Ages (1000-1600)

Panel: Medieval Eurabia: Religious Crosspollinations in Architecture, Art and Material Culture during the High and Late Middle Ages (1000-1600)

Organisers:

Sami Luigi de Giosa​, Oxford

Nikolaos Vryzidis, Athens

Discussant:

Mariam Rosser-Owen​, London

Conference: Association for Art History 2018 Annual Conference (U.K.), London

Venue: Bush House, King's College London, Room: BH 2.05

Date: Friday 6 April 2018

Program

9:20-9:30 Opening remarks

9:30-10.05 Maeve O’Donnell-Morales​, London

Islamic Objects on Castilian Altars: Luxurious Building Blocks for a New Identity 

10:05-10.40 Francesco Lovino​, Brno

Arabs, Christians and the Gospel Marc. gr. Z. 539.

10:45-11:15 Break

11:15-11:50 Vera-Simone Schulz​, Florence

Beyond the Church Treasury: Laying Islamic Artifacts to Rest in Medieval Europe: The Geopoetics of Graves and Gravestones

11:50-12:25 Hani Hamza, Cairo

Balsam Oil: Mamluk Contribution to Medieval Christian Liturgy

12:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-15:35 Arielle Winnik, Bryn Mawr 

Tiraz Textiles with Coptic Language Inscriptions in Medieval Islamic Egypt

15:35-16:10 Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga, London

Exploring Muslim-Christian coexistence materialised on Fatimid and Andalusi textiles

16:15-16:45 Break

16:45-17:20 Nikolaos Vryzidis, Athens

Empires of Silk: Greek ecclesiastical use of Islamic textiles, 11th to 17th centuries-The traits of an ever shifting pattern

17:20-17:55 Gunseli Gürel, Oxford

The Ottoman Representations of the Hagia Sophia in the mid-sixteenth century: A case study in the Ottoman Approaches to the Greaco-Roman Heritage of Constantinople/Istanbul.

17:55-18:05 Closing remarks

Conference's webpage: https://www.forarthistory.org.uk/our-work/conference/annual-conference-2018/