著者名：

Pomerantz, Maurice A. & Evelyn B. Vitz (ed.)

出版元：

New York U.P.

頁数：

ix,292p pap.

刊行年：

2017

ISBN：

9781479883004

Islamic Empire -- Court and courtiers -- Performing arts

Insights into power, spectacle, and performance in the courts of Middle Eastern rulers

This book sheds new light on courtly life across the region. This insightful, exploratory collection of essays uncovers surprising commonalities across a broad swath of cultures. The pre-modern period in this volume includes roughly seven centuries, opening with the first dynasty of Islam, the Umayyads, whose reign marked an important watershed for Late Antique culture, and closing with the rule of the so-called "gunpowder" empires of the Ottomans and Safavids over much of the Near East in the sixteenth century.

Introduction/ Evelyn Birge Vitz and Maurice A. Pomerantz
Part I. Power Performed
1. Performance and Competition of Kingship and Court in Le Voyage de Charlemagne à Jerusalem et à Constantinople: Real and Imaginary Encounters between the Medieval West and the Middle East/ Evelyn Birge Vitz
2. Bloodthirsty Emperors: Performances of Imperial Punishment in Byzantine Hagiography/ Stavroula Constantinou
3. Maydān-i Naqsh-i Jahān: The Safavid Isfahan Public Square as “A Playing Field”/ Babak Rahimi
Part II. Persuasion
4. Performances of Advice and Admonition in the Courts of Muslim Rulers of the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries/ Louise Marlow
5. Conversation as Performance: Adab al-Muḥādatha at the Abbasid Court/ Nadia Maria El Cheikh
6. Khālid Ibn Ṣafwān: An Orator at the Umayyad and Abbasid Courts/ Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
Part III. Entertainment
7. Performing Court Literature in Medieval Byzantium: Tales Told in Tents/ Margaret Mullett
8. Error and the Abbasid Performer: The “Rare Slips” of the Fifth/Eleventh-Century Ghars al-Niʿma al-Ṣābiʾ/ Maurice A. Pomerantz
9. Cross-Gender “Acting” and Gender-Bending Rhetoric at a Princely Party: Performing Shadow Plays in Mamluk Cairo/ Li Guo
Part IV. Delight
10. The Court Cuisine of Medieval Cyprus: Food as Table Theater/ William Woys Weaver
11. Mystical Poetics: Courtly Themes in Early Sufi Akhbār/ Bilal Orfali
12. Chaste Lovers, Umayyad Rulers, and Abbasid Writers/ Jocelyn Sharlet
Epilogue/ Evelyn Birge Vitz and Maurice A. Pomerantz

No.

36423

価格：

6,469円