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Naomi Pitamber is an art and architectural historian of the Byzantine and Crusader periods. Her research in Mediterranean region has been supported by the Council for Library and Information Resources, the Council for American Overseas Research Centers, the Archaeological Institute of America, the Fulbright Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Research Institute, and American Council for Learned Societies. Her first book, Byzantium and Landscapes of Loss: The Recreation of Constantinople in the Laskarid and Palaiologan Eras, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. Her on-going co-directed digital humanities project, Salvaging Crete: Preserving the Legacy of the Artist Ioannis Pagomenos, assembled an interdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners from several fields to study and document the current architectural conditions of eight late Byzantine \/ early modern churches in Crete. 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Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Research Institute, and American Council for Learned Societies. Her first book, Byzantium and Landscapes of Loss: The Recreation of Constantinople in the Laskarid and Palaiologan Eras, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. Her on-going co-directed digital humanities project, Salvaging Crete: Preserving the Legacy of the Artist Ioannis Pagomenos, assembled an interdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners from several fields to study and document the current architectural conditions of eight late Byzantine \/ early modern churches in Crete. Dr. Pitamber is currently at work developing a second book project which explores key buildings in the Mediterranean whose medieval phases have been erased or manipulated in service of nationalist cultural heritage projects.","cu_faculty_degrees":"Ph.D. in Art History,<\/span> University of California, 2015\nM.A. in Art and Art History,<\/span> University of Texas, 2005\nB.A. in History of Art,<\/span> University of Pennsylvania, 2000","cu_faculty_cv":"","cu_faculty_links":"[]","cu_faculty_scholarly_interests":"","cu_faculty_scholarly_works":"[{\"activityid\":12288,\"fields\":{\"Type\":\"Presentations\",\"Title of Presentation\":\"<span style="font-size:12pt;">Culturally Definitive, Yet Divisive: The Architectural and Religious Heritage of al-Haram al-Sharif \\\/ Temple Mount in Jerusalem<\\\/span>\",\"Conference \\\/ Meeting Name\":\"Using the Past for the Present: Medieval Narratives in Modern Political and Religious Discourse\",\"Location of Conference \\\/ Meeting\":\"Rome, Italy\",\"Month \\\/ Season\":\"March \",\"Year\":2025,\"Sponsoring Organization\":\"John Cabot University\",\"CoAuthor\":null,\"URL\":\"\",\"Description\":\"\",\"Include description in output citation\":0,\"Origin\":\"Manual\"},\"facultyid\":\"C70313879\",\"status\":[{\"id\":12288,\"status\":\"Completed\\\/Published\",\"term\":\"Spring\",\"year\":2025,\"termid\":\"2024\\\/03\",\"listingorder\":6,\"completionorder\":6}],\"userid\":\"C70313879\",\"attachments\":[],\"coauthors_list\":[\"Naomi R. 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At the time, Buchthal grouped it with several other manuscripts he thought to have been produced in the newly established Levantine crusader states following the success of the First Crusade (1095-1099). In its current role as the centerpiece of early crusader manuscript production, the psalter has been discussed primarily in terms of its extraordinary imagery, particularly its heavily gilded and brilliantly colored Byzantinizing illuminations which include twenty-four frontispieces and several large historiated and decorated initial pages and portraits of saints. The admixture of styles said to be present in the manuscript\\u2014English, Byzantine, and Islamic\\u2014has been touted as proof of the hybrid artistic <\\\/span><span>milieu <\\\/span><span>of the new crusader state called the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. This mixture of cultures and religions has been argued to reflect the Latin and Orthodox, eastern and western comingling within the person of Queen Melisende (1105-1161) herself, to whom the psalter has long been attributed. With most scholarly attention paid to the psalter\\u2019s vivid illuminations and Melisende\\u2019s patronage, the textual material of the psalter\\u2014its calendar, <\\\/span><span>computus<\\\/span><span>, martyrology, litany, and prayers\\u2014was not accorded equal weight in previous analyses of the manuscript. <\\\/span><\\\/p>\\n<p><span>This article presents codicological evidence from within the psalter itself that argues for an entirely new context, one that argues that the psalter was made and used in the diocese of Winchester, England, and not, as has been previously supposed, in Jerusalem. The psalter, in fact, had no direct physical connection to Jerusalem, to the scriptorium of the Holy Sepulcher, or to the Holy Land. In demonstrating the evidence, it will become clear that Egerton 1139 must be separated from Queen Melisende\\u2019s patronage and recontextualized both temporally and geographically to the Anglo-Norman kingdom around the period of the Anarchy, also known as the War of Norman Succession (1135-1154). Based on an analysis of the psalter\\u2019s <\\\/span><span>computus <\\\/span><span>cycle, the psalter can be specifically redated to either 1139 or 1140. Given that the psalter was originally intended for use by a high-ranking woman who may have eventually become a nun, the geographical shift to Anglo-Norman England means that this female individual was a member of a religious community with strong connections to Winchester; the most likely candidates either Romsey Abbey or Nunnaminster. The practice of recording <\\\/span><span>obits <\\\/span><span>of one\\u2019s own family even in personal calendars was quite rare: thus, the presence of obits for King Baldwin II and Queen Morphia I, rulers of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, in the psalter\\u2019s calendar derive from one of two traditions: either as a record of including patrons\\u2019 death dates in calendars associated with the religious foundations they patronized, or, as evidence of an increasing interest in enmeshing contemporary royal historical chronologies with sacred events commemorated in liturgical calendars often included in devotional psalters. There is extensive paleographical evidence from multiple manuscripts attesting to the latter practice (Durham Cathedral Library, MS.B.IV.24, fol. 35r, St. Bertin Psalter, May (St. John\\u2019s College, Cambridge, MS C. 18, Fol. 3r, etc.)<\\\/span><\\\/p>\\n<p>\\u00a0<\\\/p>\\n<p><span>In sum, recontextualizing Egerton 1139 to Anglo-Norman England ultimately separates it from Queen Melisende\\u2019s biography and necessitates a reorientation within the scholarship on this important manuscript particularly with respect to direct artistic appropriations of Byzantine art during the first half of the twelfth century in Anglo-Norman England and France. 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