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Heather A. Badamo (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Saint George Between Empires

Image and Encounter in the Medieval East

Heather A. Badamo (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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English
Pennsylvania State University Press
19 December 2023
History of Art & Design Styles; Religious subjects depicted in art; European history; Religious & spiritual leaders; Cultural studies
This volume examines Saint George’s intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how rival conceptions of this well-known saint became central to Crusader, Eastern Christian, and Islamic medieval visual cultures.

Saint George Between Empires links the visual cultures of Byzantium, North Africa, the Levant, Syria, and the Caucasus during the Crusader era to redraw our picture of interfaith relations and artistic networks. Heather Badamo recovers and recontextualizes a vast body of images and literature—from etiquette manuals and romances to miracle accounts and chronicles—to describe the history of Saint George during a period of religious and political fragmentation, between his “rise” to cross-cultural prominence in the eleventh century and his “globalization” in the fifteenth. In Badamo’s analysis, George emerges as an exemplar of cross-cultural encounter and global translation.

Featuring important new research on monuments and artworks that are no longer available to scholars as a result of the occupation of Syria and parts of Iraq, Saint George Between Empires will be welcomed by scholars of Byzantine, medieval, Islamic, and Eastern Christian art and cultural studies.
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Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 203mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   1.338kg
ISBN:   9780271095226
ISBN 10:   0271095229
Pages:   264
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Heather A. Badamo is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Reviews for Saint George Between Empires: Image and Encounter in the Medieval East

“This panoramic volume follows the images of military saints across Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Crusader, Georgian, Islamic, Syriac, and many other fields of study usually held separate. Badamo ties together the fragmented political map of the later medieval eastern Mediterranean in unexpected ways that cause us to rethink broader questions of global art and history.” —Benjamin Anderson,Cornell University “Saint George Between Empires particularly excels in highlighting the importance of Saint George / al-Khiḍr in both Christian and Islamic contexts, and is by far the most all-encompassing study on this subject.” —Dr. Mat Immerzeel,Fellow International Studies, Leiden University


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