Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (c. 1300 – c. 1550)

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2020.

Under the general editorship: M. A. Rossi, A. I. Sullivan

The comparative and multi-disciplinary framework of this volume, ranging from art history to archaeology, and from material culture to architectural history, explores the visual cultures of regions of the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian Mountains (c. 1300 – c. 1550). The essays raise issues of cultural contact, transmission, and appropriation of Western, Byzantine, and Slavic artistic production, challenging the ways we understand these eclectic visual vocabularies and the regions that form a cultural landscape beyond medieval, Byzantine, and modern borders.

Chapters

Byzantine Forms and Catholic Patrons in Late Medieval Transylvania

Năstăsoiu, Dragoş Gh., , in: Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (c. 1300 – c. 1550).: Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. Ch. 3 P. 70–91.

During the late medieval period, several ethnic and confessional groups coexisted in the southern area of the Voivodate of Transylvania, each of them bringing into play its own cultural and religious tradition. Under Latin rule, Orthodox Romanians lived together with Catholic Hungarians, Szeklers, and Saxons, their long-lasting conviventia generating frequent encounters with the culture of ...

Added: November 18, 2020

Keywords: material culture, cultural contacts, archaeology, visual culture, Art History, Balkan studies, architectural history