Art and Text in Byzantine Culture.
Art and Text in Byzantine Culture.
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Details
- ISBN
- 9780521834094
- Author
- James, Liz (Ed.)
- Publishers
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Size
- XV, 230 p., ill. Original cloth with dust jacket.
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- Languages
- English
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Description
From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - CONTENTS: Introduction: Art and Text in Byzantium, Liz James -- 1. Accomplishing the Picture: Ekphrasis, Mimesis and Martyrdom in Asterios of Amaseia, Ruth Webb -- 2. The Rhetoric of Buildings in the De Aedificiis of Procopius, Jas Elsner -- 3. Every Clich�n the Book: The Linguistic Turn and the Text-Image Discourse in Byzantine Manuscripts, Leslie Brubaker -- 4. In the Presence of the Text: A Note on Writing, Speaking and Performing in the Theodore Psalter, Charles Barber -- 5. Image and Inscription: Pleas for Salvation in Spaces of Devotion, Robert S. Nelson -- 6. Epigrams on Icons, Bissera V. Pentcheva -- 7. Eufrasius and Friends: On Names and Their Absence in Byzantine Art, Henry Maguire -- 8. Echoes of Orality in the Monumental Inscriptions of Byzantium, Amy Papalexandrou -- 9. �And Shall These Mute Stones Speak?� Text as Art, Liz James. ISBN 9780521834094
