Living on the Byzantine Borders of Western Art
Robert S. Nelson
In general surveys of art history in current use, Byzantine has been separated from Western Medieval by several strategies. Most often Early Christian and follows Roman precedes Islamic art. Advancing as late the sixteenth or seventeenth century Orthodox countries, turn back to early medieval Europe which another narrative proceeds directly Renaissance. some survey books, transition Rome Byzantium Islam is also moment introduce arts Asia, Africa, Americas. These organizational strategies, disassociate Europe, are encountered history's first handbooks, published Germany mid-nineteenth Franz Kugler Carl Schnaase, still earlier influential Philosophy History G. W. F. Hegel. The surveys' chronological inversions Hegel's assessment should be understood a manifestation Orientalism, cultural prejudice detected other aspects treatment American textbooks. Instead, it suggested that new accountings transcend rigid conceptual boundaries inherited European nationalism explore larger problems across many cultures spaces Middle Ages.
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