TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maria Portmann
PY  - 2021
CY  - Lausanne, Suisse
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783034335546
TI  - 'Otherness’ in Space and Architecture
T2  - Jews, Muslims and Christians in Western European Art (1200-1650)
DO  - 10.3726/b17533
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057251
N2  - This conference proceeding (Sessions on "Otherness in Space and Architecture", International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 2017 and 2018) is a compilation of articles written by both young and senior scholars, who are working on the question of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ in Christian, Jewish and Islamic cultures. The articles examine how material, ‘oriental’ objects and knowledge originating in non-Western communities helped building and strengthening the identity of Iberia’s, southern France and northern Italian nobility and its lineages. It is shown how, in the perception of Christians, the public image of Jews and Moslems became constructed as that of adversaries, while their cultural knowledge, at the same time, would be integrated into Christian culture in a paradox manner, in which the ‘self’ necessarily depends on the ‘other’ and how visual tensions in art and space have been used as symbols of power.
KW  - Italian nobility and its lineages, Christian, Jewish and Islamic cultures, International Medieval Conference
LA  - anglais
ER  -