Marcus Milwright
Professor
Art History & Visual Studies
University of Victoria
Canada
Biography
Marcus Milwright completed his D.Phil at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford in 1999. He joined the Department of History in Art in 2002. His research focuses upon the archaeology of the Islamic period, the art and architecture of the Islamic Middle East, cross-cultural interaction in the Medieval and early Modern Mediterranean, the history of medicine, craft practices in Late Ottoman Syria, and the architecture and civil engineering of southern Greece during the Ottoman sultanate. He is currently working on a history of balsam in the Medieval period and a study of portraits of Muslim rulers in European printed books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Research Interest
Islamic art and archaeology,Traditional craft practices in the Middle East,Cross-cultural interaction in the Medieval and early Modern Mediterranean.
Publications
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Milwright M. Turquoise and Black: Notes on an Underglaze-painted Stonepaste Ware of the Mamluk Period. Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 2008 Nov 1;140(3):213-24.
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Hirschler K. Robert Hillenbrand and Sylvia Auld (eds): Ayyubid Jerusalem: The Holy City in Context 1187–1250. x, 517 pp. London: Altajir Trust, 2009. £110. ISBN 978 1 901435 06 1. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies [Internet]. Cambridge University Press (CUP); 2010 Jan 28;73(01):108. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x09990383
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Robinson F, editor. The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 5, The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance. Cambridge University Press; 2010 Nov 4.
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Irwin R, editor. The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 4, Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press; 2010 Nov 4.
