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Archeologia dei Messapi : catalogo della Mostra Lecce, Museo Provinciale " Sigismondo Castromediano" 7 ottobre 1990-7 gennaio 1991
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ISBN: 8872280621 9788872280621 Year: 1990 Volume: 1 Publisher: Edipuglia,

En niusi: ceramica greca e società nel Salento arcaico
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ISBN: 8872281989 Year: 1997 Publisher: Lecce : Martano,


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The medieval Salento : art and identity in Southern Italy
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ISBN: 9780812245547 0812245547 132251433X 0812208919 Year: 2014 Volume: *77 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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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.

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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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