 | The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy Subjects: Visual communication -- Italy -- Salentina Peninsula -- History -- To 1500; Material culture -- Italy -- Salentina Peninsula -- History -- To 1500; Arts and society -- Italy -- Salentina Peninsula -- History -- To 1500; Ethnicity -- Italy -- Salentina Pen; The Medieval Salento explores the visual and material culture of people who lived and died in this region between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, showing the ways Jews, Orthodox Christians, and Roman-rite Christians used images, artifacts, and texts in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin to construct both independent and intersecting identities. Linda Safran is a Research Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, and editor of the journal Gesta. |
