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15: Medieval III- Reorganization of the East

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    In This Chapter

    • 15.0: Chapter Introduction
      Dramatic Storytelling | A Precarious Situation | Manuscripts and the Circulation of Information | The Byzantines, Ilkhanids, Timurids, and Mamluks | Asserting Legitimacy | Salvation | Christians Beyond Byzantium
    • 15.1: Ilkhanid
      Making and mutilating manuscripts of the Shahnama | Global Connections: the tactile lives of medieval manuscripts | Baram Gur fights the karg (horned wolf)
    • 15.2: Timurid
      The Timurids (1369-1502) | The Miscellany of Iskandar Sultan | The Khamsah of Nizami
    • 15.3: Mamluk
      The Mamluks | Basin (Baptistère de Saint Louis) | Madrasa and Friday Mosque of Sultan Hasan, Cairo
    • 15.4: Late Byzantine
      Late Byzantine church architecture | Byzantine miniature mosaics | Picturing salvation: Chora’s brilliant Byzantine mosaics and frescoes
    • 15.5: Christian East Africa
      Christian Ethiopian art | An Ethiopian icon | Images of African kingship, real and imagined