Sicily

Heritage of the World

Edited by Dirk Booms and Peter John Higgs

Series: British Museum Research Publications

Imprint: British Museum

200 Pages, 8.3 x 11.7 in, 190

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9780861592227
February 2020
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Part I: Ancient Sicily

Chapter 1: Constructing cultures: re-evaluating the creation of cities and houses in Archaic and Classical Sicily (Matthew Fitzjohn)
Chapter 2: Monte Iato: the Archaic settlement as cultural contact zone (Birgit Öhlinger)
Chapter 3: Greek Sicily: a world apart? (Franco de Angelis)
Chapter 4: Colonial encounters in ancient Sicily (Francesca Spatafora)
Chapter 5: A toreutic workshop between east and west: recent thoughts on the gold objects from Sant'Angelo Muxaro (Gioconda Lamagna and Dario Palermo)
Chapter 6: Cultural connections between east and west: the sculpture from Selinous and its surroundings (Caterina Greco)
Chapter 7: Theories and dilemmas in conserving the warrior from Agrigento (Tommaso Guagliardo and Donatella Mangione)
Chapter 8: The Chatsworth House connection – a marble leg from Agrigento (Peter John Higgs)
Chapter 9: External influences and local reinterpretation in the production of terracottas on Sicily between the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. A case study: the head of Hades from Morgantina (Maria Lucia Ferruzza)
Chapter 10: Making sense of epigraphic culture in ancient Sicily (Jonathan R.W. Prag)
Chapter 11: Philippianus and his rural estate in late Roman Sicily:
recent excavations at Gerace near Enna (Roger Wilson)

Part II: Medieval Sicily

Chapter 12: Sic transit: public works and private lives through four regimes (Martin Carver and Alessandra Molinari)
Chapter 13: Before the Normans: identity and societal formation in Muslim Sicily (Alex Metcalfe)
Chapter 14: Norman identity and the anonymous Historia sicula (John Aspinwall and Alex Metcalfe)
Chapter 15 Gardens and orchards of Islamic influence in medieval Sicily (Giuseppe Barbera)
Chapter 16: The swan song of the multilingual chancery (Nadil Jamil and Jeremy Johns)
Chapter 17: Gothic revival architecture and decoration between Bourbon absolutism and Sicilian nationalism in Palermo in the early 19th century (Pierfrancesco Palazzotto)
Chapter 18: The royal tombs in the cathedral of Palermo: conceptions and misconceptions (Valeria Sola)
Chapter 19: The Masi chapel, a case of Sicilian-Norman revival (Maurizia Onori)