Book contents
- Worlds of Byzantium
- Worlds of Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- One Worlds of Byzantium
- I Patterns, Paradigms, Scholarship
- II Images, Objects, Archaeology
- Six Movement and Creation
- Seven Letters from the Edge
- Eight Antioch after Dark
- Nine Ars Sacra in the East and after Byzantium
- Ten The Church of the Virgin in Dayr al-Suryān (Wadi al-Natrun)
- Eleven Three Questions Concerning Armenian and Byzantine Art
- Twelve Makurian Visual Culture
- III Languages, Confessions, Empire
- Index
- References
Twelve - Makurian Visual Culture
Between Byzantium and Africa
from II - Images, Objects, Archaeology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2024
Book contents
- Worlds of Byzantium
- Worlds of Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- One Worlds of Byzantium
- I Patterns, Paradigms, Scholarship
- II Images, Objects, Archaeology
- Six Movement and Creation
- Seven Letters from the Edge
- Eight Antioch after Dark
- Nine Ars Sacra in the East and after Byzantium
- Ten The Church of the Virgin in Dayr al-Suryān (Wadi al-Natrun)
- Eleven Three Questions Concerning Armenian and Byzantine Art
- Twelve Makurian Visual Culture
- III Languages, Confessions, Empire
- Index
- References
Summary
Ultimately in the end of the 6th century the Kingdom of Makuria was converted to Christianity and entered into the orbit of strong Byzantine cultural and civilizational influence
A hundred years of Byzantine influence set an indelible stamp on the Christian culture of Makuria, which flourished for close to 700 years, until the turn of the 13th century, as an “African version of Byzantium”. Greek was the official language of the Church as well as administration, strongly impacting Old Nubian, which was commonly written already by the mid 11th century. Byzantine iconography from before the iconoclasm remained the base of a flourishing local art, represented by wall paintings among others, created for an artistically sophisticated Makurian society, at the royal court as well as in the monasteries.
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- Worlds of ByzantiumReligion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East, pp. 352 - 402Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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