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Published by Brill (2011), 2011
ISBN 10: 0013807854ISBN 13: 9780013807858
Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark, Svendborg, Denmark
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 23x15cm, 591 pages., THREE VOLUMES, comprised of 5 issues. Complete for this period. Weighs 950 grams. Complete for Volume 17 [2011]. This is a collection of five issues [bound in three] of the five-times-annually-published periodical ¨"Medieval Encounters : Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue", each separately bound in original wrappers, complete for Volume 17 [2011]. Each issue contains between 3 to 7 papers + reviews & notices. Issues no. 1-2 and 4-5 are double issues. Issue no. 1-2 is a special issue devoted to the theme "Confronting the Borders of Medieval Art" [7 papers, 229 pages]. Issue 4-5 is a special double issue devoted to the theme "Rome Re-Imagined: Twelfth-Century Jews, Christians and Muslims Encounter the Eternal City [7 papers, pagination runs 415 - 591]. Contents include: Towers, Birds and Divine Light: The Contested Territory of Nasrid and 'Mudéjar' Ornament; Stuccoes from the Early Norman Period in Sicily: Figuration, Fabrication and Integration; Khidr and the Changing Frontiers of the Medieval World; The Far Side: Expatriate Medieval Art and Its Languages in Sino-Mongolian China; Would There Have Been Gothic Art Without the Vikings? The Contribution of Scandinavian Medieval Art; Muslims in Christian Countrysides: Reassessing Exaricus Tenures in Eastern Iberia; Decoding the Labyrinth: Rome in Arabic and Persian Medieval Literature; etc.