Before and After Muhammad The First Millennium Refocused

26 | CHAPTER 2 riot on the evidence of little else than jewellery, enamels, ivories, textiles, painting, and carving.” For Rivoi ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 27 debate. Its interest in the present context, though, is that it was created spe- cifically in o ...

28 | CHAPTER 2 doctoral thesis titled Ellinisticheskie osnovy vizantiiskogo iskusstva, published in Saint Petersburg in 1900–19 ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 29 Published in 1901, while Strzygowski was still a professor at Graz (he moved to Vienna in 1909) ...

30 | CHAPTER 2 The Orient and Islam: Views from Vienna Reviewing Orient oder Rom, Ainalov observed that “the whole direction of ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 31 East.^44 Thessalonica and Mount Athos were his first stops, and then Athens, where he threw him ...

32 | CHAPTER 2 There is something unexpectedly Gibbonian (though more than excur- sive) about Strzygowski’s gradual progress fro ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 33 “Semitic wedge.”^52 Here, despite his interest in the region’s Christian art, Strzygowski never ...

34 | CHAPTER 2 The understanding of art history Riegl purveyed in Stilfragen was, in other words, both “universalhistorisch”^56 ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 35 infinite unbroken extension of designs thus generated, in any direction— what Riegl calls the a ...

36 | CHAPTER 2 pened entirely separately in Ireland: the designs in the Book of Kells are very much like arabesques based on a d ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 37 into play. Finally, in the last forty pages of Stilfragen Riegl had put the Islamic development ...

38 | CHAPTER 2 dreamed of rebuilding Rome’s frontiers to keep the barbarians out.^76 Scholars from the former Central Powers fou ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 39 Current scholarship maintains, in the light of a great deal of archaeolog y done since Pirenne’ ...

40 | CHAPTER 2 The leading French student of late Antiquity, Henri- Irénée Marrou, was a Catholic intellectual who stood in the ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 41 with neighbouring cultural areas has become a problem of singular significance.^91 A tremendous ...

42 | CHAPTER 2 Although, for Brown, the rise of Islam was undeniably a crisis, it was a crisis in the religious history of late ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 43 ing new analogies and combinations,^99 there is also an undeniable congru- ence of historical a ...

44 | CHAPTER 2 This catalytic role of art, architectural history, and archaeolog y in the “slow transformations” of the late ant ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 45 mation.^108 Soon after this, Andrea Giardina in Rome complained that Brown’s ambitious portrait ...