Krisztina Ilko
Biographic Data
| ID | 2292279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krisztina Ilko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krisztina |
| FAMILY NAME | Ilko |
| SIGNATURE | ILKO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4765-2246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lustrous silk and dark wool
Male bodies dressed in brilliant silk clothing conveyed messages of power in late medieval Italy. Previous scholars examined how these glamorous bodies reflected contemporary ideals of gentility and whiteness in a courtly context. This article shifts the attention from secular to religious contexts through examining the fictive materiality of the attire of St. Augustine. Silk and wool were two driving forces of the pre-industrial economy. Yet the…
Yangzhou, 1342
The tombstone of an Italian woman, Caterina Vilioni, in Yangzhou (1342) is a rare and important testimony to Christianity in Yuan China. By exploring the visual language and the multicultural geopolitical context of Caterina's funerary monument, this article sheds light on the dynamic processes behind how cultural and religious barriers were negotiated in the premodern Eurasian world. Despite the increasing scholarly interest in the European impo…
Chess and Race in the Global Middle Ages
Medieval European representations of non-White people are often perceived in two primary roles, limited to negative, subservient figures, such as slaves and executioners, or exotic status symbols, like saints and rulers. By focusing on the game of chess, this article instead casts light onto another kind of encounter in which peoples hailing from different lands could engage in a ludic contest as equals. This study draws on interdisciplinary evid…
Where the Wild Things Are’
This article examines how medieval woodlands around Augustinian convents could convey messages of power. In the thirteenth century, the papacy threatened the Augustinian friars with suppression on the grounds of their ‘lack of antiquity’. Previous scholarship showed that, in reaction to this, the friars developed a fictive past in which they claimed to have been founded by St Augustine. This article shifts attention away from human agencies to th…
Forging the Augustinian Past
This study investigates the development of the Rule-giving image of the Augustinian friars through its most sophisticated surviving example, the initial of a finely illuminated late-duecento gradual (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS Charles Fairfax Murray 5). In addition to revealing the Augustinian patronage behind the creation of the manuscript, I analyze the iconographical, liturgical, and political context of the Rule-giving scene. The uniqu…
Recovering the Augustinian Convent of San Salvatore in Venetian Candia
This study investigates the place of San Salvatore in the holy topography of Venetian Candia. By focusing on the largest convent in the Augustinian Province of the Holy Land, it contributes to a better understanding of a neglected subject in mendicant scholarship, namely the Augustinian friars’ expansion in the eastern Mediterranean. This article offers a detailed reconstruction of the demolished building and its sacred space, and sheds new light…
Chess and Race in the Global Middle Ages
Medieval European representations of non-White people are often perceived in two primary roles, limited to negative, subservient figures, such as slaves and executioners, or exotic status symbols, like saints and rulers. By focusing on the game of chess, this article instead casts light onto another kind of encounter in which peoples hailing from different lands could engage in a ludic contest as equals. This study draws on interdisciplinary evid…
Recovering the Augustinian Convent of San Salvatore in Venetian Candia
This study investigates the place of San Salvatore in the holy topography of Venetian Candia. By focusing on the largest convent in the Augustinian Province of the Holy Land, it contributes to a better understanding of a neglected subject in mendicant scholarship, namely the Augustinian friars’ expansion in the eastern Mediterranean. This article offers a detailed reconstruction of the demolished building and its sacred space, and sheds new light…
Forging the Augustinian Past
This study investigates the development of the Rule-giving image of the Augustinian friars through its most sophisticated surviving example, the initial of a finely illuminated late-duecento gradual (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS Charles Fairfax Murray 5). In addition to revealing the Augustinian patronage behind the creation of the manuscript, I analyze the iconographical, liturgical, and political context of the Rule-giving scene. The uniqu…
Yangzhou, 1342
The tombstone of an Italian woman, Caterina Vilioni, in Yangzhou (1342) is a rare and important testimony to Christianity in Yuan China. By exploring the visual language and the multicultural geopolitical context of Caterina's funerary monument, this article sheds light on the dynamic processes behind how cultural and religious barriers were negotiated in the premodern Eurasian world. Despite the increasing scholarly interest in the European impo…
Chess and Race in the Global Middle Ages
Medieval European representations of non-White people are often perceived in two primary roles, limited to negative, subservient figures, such as slaves and executioners, or exotic status symbols, like saints and rulers. By focusing on the game of chess, this article instead casts light onto another kind of encounter in which peoples hailing from different lands could engage in a ludic contest as equals. This study draws on interdisciplinary evid…
Where the Wild Things Are’
This article examines how medieval woodlands around Augustinian convents could convey messages of power. In the thirteenth century, the papacy threatened the Augustinian friars with suppression on the grounds of their ‘lack of antiquity’. Previous scholarship showed that, in reaction to this, the friars developed a fictive past in which they claimed to have been founded by St Augustine. This article shifts attention away from human agencies to th…
Lustrous silk and dark wool
Male bodies dressed in brilliant silk clothing conveyed messages of power in late medieval Italy. Previous scholars examined how these glamorous bodies reflected contemporary ideals of gentility and whiteness in a courtly context. This article shifts the attention from secular to religious contexts through examining the fictive materiality of the attire of St. Augustine. Silk and wool were two driving forces of the pre-industrial economy. Yet the…
History (5 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Cult (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works) · Law (2 works)