‘Lucid and original; a veritable feast of interesting stories about Mt Sinai’s extraordinary past’ – Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads ‘As a traveller and pilgrim to Sinai on numerous occasions and now a Trustee of the St Catherine’s Foundation, I greatly enjoyed George Manginis’s Mount Sinai and learnt much from it ... The…
Please Note that the Fresh Perspectives Lecture is CANCELLED and this concert will replace the lecture
Despite the significance that has been accorded by the Mamluks to the military production, Mamluk military art is rarely considered as a part of the Islamic art field. Helmets were intended not only for the protection but also for the public display during the Mamluk period (1250–1517), and thus played a considerable role in decorative…