‎Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Vicky Foskolou (eds)‎
‎Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204. The Evidence of Art and Material Culture‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 572 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:220 b/w, 35 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503598505.‎

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‎Summary Based on the evidence of artistic production and material culture this collective volume aims at exploring cross-cultural relations and interaction between Greeks and Latins in late medieval Greece in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. Fourteen essays discuss mostly new and unpublished archaeological and artistic material, including architecture, sculpture, wall-paintings and icons, pottery and other small finds, but also the evidence of music and poetry. Through the surviving material of these artistic activities this volume explores the way Byzantines and Latins lived side by side on the Greek mainland and the Aegean islands from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries and traces the mechanisms that led to the emergence of the new, composite world of the Latin East. Issues of identity, patronage, papal policy, the missionary activities of the Latin religious orders and the reactions and responses of the Byzantines are also re-considered, offering fresh insights into and a better understanding of the various manifestations of the interrelationship between the two ethnicities, confessions and cultures. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations PART I: TRACING THE LATIN IDENTITIES AND THE ROLE OF THE MENDICANTS Michalis Olympios, Architecture, Use of Space, and Ornament in the Mendicant Churches of Latin Greece: An Overview Vicky Foskolou, Reflections of Mendicant Spirituality in the Monumental Painting of Crete in the Late Medieval Period (13th-15th centuries) Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis, Art, Identity, and the Franciscans in Crete Ioanna Bitha and Anna-Maria Kasdagli, Saint George 'of the English': Byzantine and Western Encounters in a Chapel of the Fortifications of Rhodes Dimitris Kountouras, Western Music and Poetry at the Kingdom of Thessalonica: Music and Historiography of the Fourth Crusade PART II: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND MUTUAL APPROACHES: THE EVIDENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND MATERIAL CULTURE Olga Gratziou, Imported Projects, Local Skills, and the Emergence of a 'Cretan Gothic' Anastasia Vassiliou, Glazed Pottery in Late Medieval Morea (13th-15th Centuries): Cross-Cultural Tableware with Multiple Connotations Maria Michailidou, Pottery Finds in the Medieval Town of Rhodes (1204?1522): Insights on a Multicultural, Cosmopolitan Society Eleni Barmparitsa, Dress Accessories and Sartorial Trends in the Principality of Achaia (1205-1428): Evidence from the Frankish Castles of Chlemoutsi and Glarentza PART III: CULTURAL INTERACTIONS AND BYZANTINE RESPONSES: THE EVIDENCE OF ARCHITECTURE, MURALS, AND ICON PAINTING Michalis Kappas, Cultural Interactions between East and West: The Testimony of Three Orthodox Monasteries in Thirteenth-Century Frankish Messenia Aspasia Louvi-Kizi, Politics of Equilibrium: Gothic Architectural Features at Mystras (1361-71), Cypriot Models, and the Role of Isabelle de Lusignan Nikolaos Mastrochristos and Angeliki Katsioti, Reconstructing the Artistic Landscape of Rhodes in the Fifteenth Century: The Evidence of Painting from Lindos Konstantia Kefala, Permeable Boundaries of Artistic Identity: The Origin of a Fifteenth-Century Annunciation Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Preaching, the Role of the Apostles, and the Evidence of Iconography in East and West: Byzantine Responses to the 'Challenges' from the Latin Church after 1204 Notes on Contributors Index‎