'Otherness’ in Space and Architecture
Jews, Muslims and Christians in Western European Art (1200-1650)
$158.66
- Paperback
212 pages
- Release Date
17 December 2020
Summary
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 a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783034335065 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3034335067 |
| Author: | Maria Portmann |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Imprint: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 212 |
| Release Date: | 17 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Maria Portmann
Since 2016 Maria Portmann is chief conservator of historic monuments and sites in the Canton of the Valais (Switzerland). Since 2019, she is a research fellow for the project COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action - “Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750)”. Between 2012 and 2016, she has been a grant holder of the Swiss National Fund for her postdoc research about “Jews and Christians in Western Art (1300-1600).” She has been in residence at the Kunsthistorisches Institut – Max-Planck Institut in Florenz (Italy), Ludwig Maximilian University and at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (Germany) and at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). She earned her PhD at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). In parallel of her PhD (2009-2011), she was a research fellow for a Spanish National Project at the University of Málaga (Spain).
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