Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World

List of Illustrations.

Series Editor’s Preface.

Editor’s Acknowledgments.

Acknowledgments to Sources.

Introduction: Remapping the Art of the Mediterranean.

Part I: Late Antiquity: Converging Cultures, Competing Traditions. Pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Sasanian Art.

1. The Changing Nature of Roman Art and the Art-Historical Problem of Style: Jás Elsner.

2. Good and Bad Images from the Synagogue of Dura Europos: Contexts, Subtexts, Intertexts: Annabel Jane Wharton.

3. Exotic Taste: The Lure of Sasanian Persia: Anna Gonosová.

4. Dionysiac Motifs: Richard Ettinghausen.

Part II: Continuities: Tradition and Formation of Cultural Identities.

5. The Good Life: Henry Maguire.

6. Hellenism and Islam: G. W. Bowersock.

7. The Draped Universe of Islam: Lisa Golombek.

Part III: Image and Word: Early Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic Art.

8. The Beginnings of Biblical Illustration: John Lowden.

9 Sacred Image, Sacred Power: Gary Vikan.

10. The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem: Oleg Grabar.

11. The Image of the Word: Notes on the Religious Iconography of Islam: Erica.

Cruikshank Dodd.

12. Islam, Iconoclasm, and the Declaration of Doctrine: G. R. D. King.

Part IV: Local Syncretistic Traditions: Jews, Muslims, and Christians.

13. Hebrew Book Illumination in the Fatimid Era: Rachel Milstein.

14. An Icon at Mt. Sinai and Christian Painting in Muslim Egypt during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Robert S. Nelson.

Part V: Luxury Arts and the Representation of the Court.

15. The Cup of San Marco and the “Classical” in Byzantium: Ioli Kalavrezou.

16. Images of the Court: Henry Maguire.

17. But Is It Art?: Robin Cormack.

Part VI: Expanding Boundaries: Spain, Sicily, Venice, and Beyond.

18. Pathways of Portability: Islamic and Christian Interchange from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century: Eva R. Hoffman.

19. Islam, Christianity, and the Problem of Religious Art: Jerrilyn D. Dodds.

20. The Medieval Object-Enigma, and the Problem of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: William Tronzo.

21. Venice and Islam in the Middle Ages: Some Observations on the Question of Architectural Influence: Deborah Howard.

Index