LITURGICAL FURNISHINGS AND ICONS IN THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DELL'AMMIRAGLIO IN PALERMO IN THE MIDDLE-AGES.

By studying two ancient inventories --one of which original-- this contribution wishes to shed light on the relations between the precious furnishings of a medieval church and the liturgical, cultural and political events related to them. In this sense, the church of George of Antioch's Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio, built in the Norman part of Palermo, with its conspicuous collection of icons and images, reveals the cultural syncretism typical of Sicily between the 12^th and the 14^th centuries, where the encounter between the West, Byzantium and Islam favoured the birth of a highly refined artistic language and a culture with a Mediterranean vocation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]