Why were pseudo-Arabic inscriptions placed on churches in Greece?, with Alicia Walker скачать в хорошем качестве

Why were pseudo-Arabic inscriptions placed on churches in Greece?, with Alicia Walker

A conversation with Alicia Walker on the pseudo-Arabic inscriptions (or pseudo-kufic) that appear on a number of tenth- and eleventh-century churches in Greece, most notably at the monastery of Hosios Loukas. What did the Arabic script signify in Orthodox culture at the time if not tension with Islam? The conversation is based on Alicia's essay 'Letters from the Edge: Mapping Pseudo-Arabic between Byzantium and the Near East,' in E. Bolman et al., eds., Worlds of Byzantium: Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East (Cambridge University Press 2024). Alicia also prepared a video version of our conversation with images of the places and objects we discuss. This video was re-uploaded to fix some issues with the images. Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, a Professor at the University of Chicago.