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Bringing the Holy Land home : the Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the reconstruction of a medieval masterpiece
- Title
- Bringing the Holy Land home : the Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the reconstruction of a medieval masterpiece / edited by Amanda Luyster.
- Publication
- Turnhout : Harvey Miller / Brepols [2023]
- ©2023
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- Additional Authors
- Luyster, Amanda
- Description
- 371 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- A carefully-integrated group of studies begins with the so-called "Chertsey" ceramic tiles, depicting combat between King Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. Found at Chertsey Abbey not far outside London and admired since the nineteenth century, we present here a new reconstruction of both the tiles and their previously-undeciphered Latin texts. The reconstruction demonstrates not only that the theme of the entire mosaic is the Crusades, but also that the overall appearance of the tiles, when laid as a floor, draws from the composition and iconography of imported Islamic and Byzantine silks. Essays illuminate specific material contexts that similarly witness western Europe's, and particularly England's, engagement with the material culture of the eastern Mediterranean, including ceramics, textiles, relics and reliquaries, metalwork, coins, sculpture, and ivories.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH)
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH).
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781912554942
- 1912554941
- OCLC
- on1344292219
- 1344292219
- SCSB-14350998
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries