Attracting artists from abroad, especially from Byzantium, Roger II of Hauteville pursued a political outcome through a vast cultural program: to emphasize the peaceful coexistence between Greeks, Muslims, and Normans in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, and the image of a cosmopolitan court in Palermo. The codex Marcianus gr. Z. 539 (Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana) is a minor example of this program, written both in Greek and Arab and decorated à la mode of Constantinople. By presenting its decoration, this article aims at exploring the role of Arab-Christians as commissioners, and their relationship with the palatine court, in order to reconstruct the political milieu in which the Marc. gr. Z. 539 was born.
The case of the Greek-Arabic Gospel (Marc. Gr. 539)
Lovino F.
Primo
2018
Abstract
Attracting artists from abroad, especially from Byzantium, Roger II of Hauteville pursued a political outcome through a vast cultural program: to emphasize the peaceful coexistence between Greeks, Muslims, and Normans in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, and the image of a cosmopolitan court in Palermo. The codex Marcianus gr. Z. 539 (Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana) is a minor example of this program, written both in Greek and Arab and decorated à la mode of Constantinople. By presenting its decoration, this article aims at exploring the role of Arab-Christians as commissioners, and their relationship with the palatine court, in order to reconstruct the political milieu in which the Marc. gr. Z. 539 was born.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
