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Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Inhabitants spoke Latin, Greek, and various vernaculars, and their houses of worship served sizable congregations of Jews as well as Roman-rite and Orthodox Christians. Yet the Salentines of this period laid claim to a definable local identity that transcended linguistic and religious boundaries. The evidence of their collective culture is embedded in the traces they left behind: wall paintings and inscriptions, graffiti, carved ­­tombstone decorations, belt fittings from graves, and other artifacts reveal a wide range of religious, civic, and domestic practices that helped inhabitants construct and maintain personal, group, and regional identities. The Medieval Salento allows the reader to explore the visual and material culture of a people using a database of over three hundred texts and images, indexed by site. Linda Safran draws from art history, archaeology, anthropology, and ethnohistory to reconstruct medieval Salentine customs of naming, language, appearance, and status. She pays particular attention to Jewish and nonelite residents, whose lives in southern Italy have historically received little scholarly attention. This extraordinarily detailed visual analysis reveals how ethnic and religious identities can remain distinct even as they mingle to become a regional culture.

Visual communication --- Material culture --- Arts and society --- Ethnicity --- Visual communication in art. --- Material culture in art. --- Group identity in art. --- Ethnicity in art. --- Communication visuelle --- Culture matérielle --- Arts et société --- Ethnicité --- Communication visuelle dans l'art --- Culture matérielle dans l'art --- Identité collective dans l'art --- Ethnicité dans l'art --- History --- Histoire --- Salentina Peninsula (Italy) --- Salento (Italie) --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Visual communication in art --- Material culture in art --- Group identity in art --- Ethnicity in art --- Culture matérielle --- Arts et société --- Ethnicité --- Culture matérielle dans l'art --- Identité collective dans l'art --- Ethnicité dans l'art --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Art --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Social aspects --- Apulian Peninsula (Italy) --- Messapian Peninsula (Italy) --- Penisola Salentina (Italy) --- Salentine Peninsula (Italy) --- Salento (Italy : Peninsula) --- Terra d'Otranto (Italy) --- Social life and customs. --- Visual communication - Italy - Salentina Peninsula - History - To 1500 --- Material culture - Italy - Salentina Peninsula - History - To 1500 --- Arts and society - Italy - Salentina Peninsula - History - To 1500 --- Ethnicity - Italy - Salentina Peninsula - History - To 1500 --- Salentina Peninsula (Italy) - Social life and customs --- History. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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7.033.2 --- Art, Byzantine --- Christian art and symbolism --- -Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Religious art, Christian --- Sacred art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Art --- Symbolism --- Christian antiquities --- Church decoration and ornament --- Byzantine art --- Art, Medieval --- Kunst van Byzantium Oud-Rusland Oud-Armenie --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- -Eastern Orthodox Church --- Pravoslavnai︠a︡ vostochnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church --- Holy Orthodox Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Church --- Greek Church --- Orthodoxos Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Orthodoxos Katholikē kai Anatolikē Ekklēsia --- Kanīsah al-Sharqīyah --- Tung cheng chiao --- Kanīsat al-Masīḥ al-Sharqīyah al-Urthudhuksīyah --- Biserica Ortodoxă --- .كنيسة الشرقية الارثوذكسية --- In art --- Art, Byzantine. --- In art. --- -Kunst van Byzantium Oud-Rusland Oud-Armenie --- -In art --- 7.033.2 Kunst van Byzantium Oud-Rusland Oud-Armenie --- -Byzantine art --- Art, Christian --- Conferences - Meetings --- Religious art --- 7.033.2 Kunst van Byzantium; Oud-Rusland; Oud-Armenie --- Kunst van Byzantium; Oud-Rusland; Oud-Armenie --- Symbolism in art

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This volume approaches the problem of the canonical “center” by looking at art and architecture on the borders of the medieval world, from China to Armenia, Sweden, and Spain. Seven contributors engage three distinct yet related problems: margins, frontiers, and cross-cultural encounters. While not displaying a unified methodology or privileging specific theoretical constructs, the essays emphasize how strategies of representation articulated ownership and identity within contested arenas. What is contested is both medieval (the material evidence itself) and modern (the scholarly traditions in which the evidence has or has not been embedded). An introduction by the editors places the essays within historiographic and pedagogical frameworks. Contributors: J. Caskey, K. Kogman-Appel, C. Maranci, J. Purtle, C. Robinson, N. Wicker and E.S.Wolper.

Art, Medieval --- Art and history. --- Historiography.