Images of otherness in medieval and early modern times
Subtitle: exclusion, inclusion and assimilation
By: edited by Anja Eisenbeiss, Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9783422070691
Subjects: Medieval Art; Philosophy and religion; Other (Philosophy) in art; Other (Philosophy); Medieval Literature; Other (Philosophy) in literature
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Facets of otherness and affirmation of the self / Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch; title: The metamorphic other and the discourse of alterity in Parisian miniatures of the fourteenth century / Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch; title: The turbaned and the hatted : figures of alterity in early modern Thai visual culture / Maurizio Peleggi; title: Alterity and the Palaiologan hat : dress and othernesss in the portraits of the Byzantine Emperor John VIII by Pisanello and Filarete / Joyce Kubiski; title: Skin and the meeting of cultures : outward and visible signs of alterity in the medieval Christian east / Lucy-Anne Hunt; title: Distant knowledge : images of learned discourse in Saint Augustine's City of God / Anja Eisenbeiss; title: The other's images : Christian iconoclasm and the charge of Muslim idolatry in medieval Europe / Suzanne Conklin Akbari; title: "Tra il diavolo di Rustico e il ninferno d'Alibech" : Muslims and Jews in Boccaccio's Decameron / John Tolan; title: Inventing Europe with Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini / Nancy Bisaha; title: Faith, blood, and the reliability of conversion : the Directorium ad passagium faciendum (1332) / Felicitas Schmieder.