Shaping Identities in a Holy Land - Crusader Art in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: Patrons and Viewers

This book offers a broad perspective of Crusader art and architecture.

List of contents

Introduction / 1. The Historiography of Crusader Art Revisited: Conceptions and Revolutions / 2. Glorious Past(s) – Tradition, Living-Memory and the Construction of Legitimacy / 3. Holy Sites: Pilgrims, Prestige and Competition / 4. The Image of the Muslim in the Art of the Latin Kingdom – Between Ideology, Demonization and Encounter / 5. Eastern Christians, Byzantine Style and the Pictorial Language of Crusader Art / 6. The Complexities of Patronage / Conclusion – Crusader Art as a Multilayered System

About the author

Gil Fishhof teaches medieval and Crusader art at the Department of Art History, University of Haifa. His main areas of expertise are Romanesque art and architecture in France, art in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, art of the Cluniac order, and questions of medieval patronage and audiences. Together with Einat Segal and Assaf Pinkus he has recently published the edited volume The Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth - Where the Word became Flesh (2020), and with Vardit Shoten-Hallel and Judith Bronstein the volume Settlement and Crusade in the 13th Century - Multidisciplinary Studies of the Latin East (2021).

Summary

This book offers a broad perspective of Crusader art and architecture.

Product details

• Authors: Gil Fishhof
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032271712
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227171-2
• No. of pages: 362
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Jerusalem, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ART / Middle Eastern, Middle East, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, History of Architecture, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500