Images of the Byzantine world : visions, messages and meanings : studies presented to Leslie Brubaker / edited by Angeliki Lymberopoulou.

Other author Brubaker, Leslie.
Other author Lymberopoulou, Angeliki.
Format Book
Publication InfoFarnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2011.
Descriptionxxiv, 246 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
Visions--Byzantine Empire. --History.
Idols and images--Byzantine Empire. --History.
Visual communication--Byzantine Empire. --History.
Nonverbal communication--Byzantine Empire. --History.
Meaning (Philosophy)--Social aspects. --Byzantine Empire. --History.
Art, Byzantine--History.
Architecture, Byzantine--History.
Byzantine Empire--Church history.
Byzantine Empire--Civilization.
Byzantine Empire--Intellectual life.

Contents Leslie Brubaker : biography and published works / Kalliroe Linardou -- Preface / Angeliki Lymberopoulou -- "Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth" : touch and the meaning of Byzantine art / Liz James -- Memories of buildings? : messages in late Antique architectural representations / Maria Cristina Carile -- "And the mother did not spare the baby in her breast," or, Searching for meaning in tecnoctonia and tecnophagy / Dionysios Stathakopoulos -- The anxiety of images : meanings and material objects / Averil Cameron -- Messages, meanings, and metamorphoses : the icon of the Transfiguration of Zarzma / Antony Eastmond -- Messages in context : the reading of sermons in Byzantine churches and monasteries / Mary B. Cunningham -- "The teaching of the ladder" : the message of the heavenly ladder image in Sinai ms. gr. 417 / Kathleen Corrigan and Nancy P. Ševčenko -- Visions and meanings : personifications in Octateuch cycles / Maja Kominko -- "Signs and symbols of your always victorious reign" : the political ideology and meaning of falconry in Byzantium / Henry Maguire -- Messages in the landscape : searching for Gregory Nazianzenos in Cappadocia (with two excursions to the Çanli Kilise) / Robert Ousterhout -- New visions of old meanings : Paris gr. 135 and some anti-Latin visual implications / Kalliroe Linardou -- The Noli Me Tangere icon at the British Museum : vision, message, and reality / Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Lynne Harisson, and Janet Ambers -- Byzantine "visions" of the Ottoman Empire : theories of Ottoman legitimacy by Byzantine scholars after the fall of Constantinople / Konstantinos Moustakas -- Conclusions / Chris Wickham.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010032127
ISBN9781409407768 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1409407764 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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