Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Map
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Story of Designing Norman Sicily
- 1 Roger II and Medieval Visual Culture
- 2 The Interplay of Media: Textile, Sculpture and Mosaic
- 3 ‘The True Nature of His Lands’: Strategic Information on Sicily in the Book of Roger
- 4 Patronage and Tradition in Textile Exchange and Use in the Early Norman South
- 5 Imperial Iconography on the Silver Ducalis: Cultural Appropriation in the Construction and Consolidation of Norman Royal Power
- 6 Sicily and England: Norman Transitions Compared
- 7 Beyond ‘Plan bénédictin’: Reconsidering Sicilian and Calabrian Cathedrals in the Age of the Norman County
- 8 Designing a Visual Language in Norman Sicily: The Creation Sequence in the Mosaics of Palermo and Monreale
- 9 Remembering, Illustrating, and Forgetting in the Register of Peter the Deacon
- Index
- Already Published
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Map
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Story of Designing Norman Sicily
- 1 Roger II and Medieval Visual Culture
- 2 The Interplay of Media: Textile, Sculpture and Mosaic
- 3 ‘The True Nature of His Lands’: Strategic Information on Sicily in the Book of Roger
- 4 Patronage and Tradition in Textile Exchange and Use in the Early Norman South
- 5 Imperial Iconography on the Silver Ducalis: Cultural Appropriation in the Construction and Consolidation of Norman Royal Power
- 6 Sicily and England: Norman Transitions Compared
- 7 Beyond ‘Plan bénédictin’: Reconsidering Sicilian and Calabrian Cathedrals in the Age of the Norman County
- 8 Designing a Visual Language in Norman Sicily: The Creation Sequence in the Mosaics of Palermo and Monreale
- 9 Remembering, Illustrating, and Forgetting in the Register of Peter the Deacon
- Index
- Already Published
Summary
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- Designing Norman SicilyMaterial Culture and Society, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020