Material Encounters Between Jews and Christians : From the Silk and Spice Routes to the Highlands of Ethiopia

This book demonstrates the potential of material culture, including artworks and archaeological finds, to shed new light on Jewish-Christian interaction in medieval and early modern times. Previous studies have focused on areas where Jews lived as a minority under Christian rule, such as in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire. This book, on the other hand, explores the eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia, the Red Sea and India, where Jews and Christians interacted on a different footing.

Zaroui Pogossian is associate professor of Byzantine Civilization at Florence University, focusing on medieval Armenia in the context of wider Eurasian processes. She is the principal investigator of the ERC project Armenia Entangled: Connectivity and Cultural Encounters in Medieval Eurasia, 9th-14th Centuries.