商品簡介
Scholars interested in the complex cultural and artistic creations of medieval Spain will find food for thought in the 12 essays of this collection. The topics include Las cantigas de Santa Maria, references to Mongols in Iberian literature, Christian administrative practices in conquered Muslim cities, two versions of the Kalilah was-Dimnah, and why Castilian Christians favored fine Muslim textiles. A central theme of all the essays, referred to in the title, is the nature of the artistic and other influences of the region's different cultural groups on one another. The contributors are curators and academics at universities in the US, Qatar, and Spain. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Cynthia Robinson, Ph.D. (1995) in the History of Art (University of Pennsylvania) is Assistant Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art History at Cornell University. She has published on the art and literature[s] of Medieval Iberia, with particular focus on the relationship of art to literature, courtly culture and religion. Leyla Rouhi, Ph.D. (1995) in Romance Languages (Harvard University) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish at Williams College. She has published on the figure of the medieval go-between, the interaction of Islamic and Christian poetics in medieval Spanish.
