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Spoliation as translation : medieval worlds in the Eastern Mediterranean

Title

Spoliation as translation : medieval worlds in the Eastern Mediterranean / edited by Ivana Jevtic & Ingela Nilsson ; with the collaboration of Zuzana Frantová.

Publication

Brno : Masarykovy univerzita ; [Turnhout] : Brepols, September 2021.
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Description

201 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm.

Summary

"The articles gathered in this special issue of Convivium offer a variety of perspectives -- history of medieval art, architecture, literary studies -- that explore the relations between spoliation and translation, with a particular focus on the interconnections and similarities between material/artistic and textual/literary cultures. Building on current research in spolia and translation studies, these contributions respond to the increasing interest in and popularity of these two topics in recent scholarship. A conceptual point of departure is that reuse and translation represent two crucial processes facilitating cultural dialogues and exchanges across time and space. Material and textual spolia fascinate us, because they provide various means and levels of engagement with the past with a tangible form, sometimes of an ambivalent nature. Objects, artefacts, buildings, and texts have been subject to constant reworkings, through which they have been interpreted and translated: old stories gain new significance in new contexts, just as old objects gain new meanings in new settings. The aim of this collection is to foster a better understanding of such processes and, at the same time, of the history of the medieval worlds of the Eastern Mediterranean, which is marked by constant cross-cultural encounters and interactions."--Publisher description.

Series Statement

Convivium supplementum : exchanges and interactions in the arts of medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean Seminarium kondakovianum, series nova, 2336-3452 ; 2021/2

Uniform Title

Convivium (Brno, Czech Republic). Supplementum ; 2021/2.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

Essays in English; abstracts in English and Czech.

Contents

Introduction : towards an empathetic approach to material and literary spolia / Ivana Jevtić & Ingela Nilsson -- Imitation as spoliation, reception as translation : the art of transforming things in Byzantium / Ingela Nilsson -- Speaking antiquity : ancient spolia as a visual koine in the medieval Mediterranean (12th to 15th Century) / Karen Rose Mathews -- Spolia and textual reincarnations : a reassessment of the Hagia Sophia's history / C. Ceyhun Arslan -- Antiquarian displays of spolia and Roman identity : San Marco, Merbaka, and the Seljuk caravanserais / Armin F. Bergmeier -- Spoiling the Hellenes: intertextuality, appropriation, embedment : the case of the Christos Paschon / Margaret Mullett -- Eustathios' Homeric commentaries : translating Homer and spoliating ancient traditions / Baukje van den Berg -- Reuse and remodeling in the late Byzantine world : the Church of Bogorodica Ljeviška in Prizren / Ivana Jevtić -- Translating spolia : a recent discovery of fragments from the walls of Seljuk Konya and their afterlives / Suzan Yalman -- Translating and spoliating the Byzantines : the receptions and remodelings of a Komnenian novel in early modem France / Emelie Hallenberg -- Postscript : the meaning of ruins / Olof Heilo.

ISBN

9788021099234
8021099232

OCLC

on1285266330
1285266330
SCSB-14054042

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library