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Designing Norman Sicily by Emily A. Winkler;Liam Fitzgerald;Andrew Small; is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Designing Norman Sicily about?

Front cover 1 Contents 6 Illustrations 8 Genealogical table: The Norman Kings of Sicily 14 Contributors 16 Acknowledgements 19 Introduction: The story of designing Norman Sicily 22 Chapter 1. Roger II and Medieval Visual Culture 44 Chapter 2. The interplay of Media: Textile, sculpture and mosaic 68 Chapter 3. 'The true nature of his lands': Strategic information on Sicily in the Book of Roger 81 Chapter 4. Patronage and tradition in textile exchange and use in the early Norman south 110 Chapter 5. Imperial iconography on the silver ducalis: Cultural appropriation in the construction and consolidation of Norman royal power 135 Chapter 6. Sicily and England: Norman transitions compared 154 Chapter 7. Beyond 'Plan Benedictine': Reconsidering Sicilian and Calabrian cathedrals in the age of the Norman county 187 Chapter 8. Designing a visual language in Norman Sicily: The creation sequence in the mosaics of Palermo and Monreale 205 Chapter 9. Remembering, illustrating, and forgetting in the register of Peter the Deacon 228 Index 243

Author

Emily A. Winkler;Liam Fitzgerald;Andrew Small;

Language

EN