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Arabic Script on Christian Kings: Textile Inscriptions on Royal Garments from Norman Sicily (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte Book 5) by Isabelle Dolezalek is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Isabelle Dolezalek is the recipient of the 2018 ICMA Annual Book Prize. <p>Roger II's famous mantle and other royal garments from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Sicily prominently display Arabic inscriptions. While the phenomenon is highly unusual in the context of Latin Christian kingship, the use of inscriptions as a textile ornament was common and imbued with political functions in the Islamic courts of the medieval Mediterranean. This case study of the inscribed garments from Norman Sicily
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- Author
- Isabelle Dolezalek
- Publisher
- de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783110532029
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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