Arabic Script on Christian Kings. Textile Inscriptions on Royal Garments from Norman Sicily

• Yazar: Dolezalek, Isabelle (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: De Gruyter 2017
• Seri Bilgileri: Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte
• Konular: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Mediterranean; Arabic; Norman Sicily; Textiles
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Isabelle Dolezalek is the recipient of the 2018 ICMA Annual Book Prize. Roger II's famous mantle and other royal garments from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Sicily prominently display Arabic inscriptions. While the phenomenon is highly unusual in the context of Latin Christian kingship, the u...