Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 246 pages)
ISBN:
9781315252681
,
9781351928779
Content:
1. 'Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth' : touch and the meaning of Byzantine art / Liz James -- 2. Memories of buildings? : messages in late antique architectural representations / Maria Cristina Carile -- 3. 'And the mother did not spare the baby in her breast,' or, Searching for meaning in tecnoctonia and tecnophagy / Dionysios Stathakopoulos -- 4. The anxiety of images : meanings and material objects / Averil Cameron -- 5. Messages, meanings and metamorphoses : the icon of the Transfiguration of Zarzma / Antony Eastmond -- 6. Messages in context : the reading of sermons in Byzantine churches and monasteries / Mary B. Cunningham -- 7. 'The teaching of the ladder' : the message of the heavenly ladder image in Sinai ms. gr. 417 / Kathleen Corrigan and Nancy P. Sevcenko -- 8. Visions and meanings : personifications in Octateuch cycles / Maja Kominko -- 9. 'Signs and symbols of your always victorious reign' : the political ideology and meaning of falconry in Byzantium / Henry Maguire -- 10. Messages in the landscape : searching for Gregory Nazianzenos in Cappadocia (with two excursions to the Canli Kilise) / Robert Ousterhout -- 11. New visions of old meanings : Paris gr. 135 and some anti-Latin visual implications / Kalliroe Linardou -- 12. The Noli Me Tangere icon at the British Museum : vision, message and reality / Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Lynne Harisson, and Janet Ambers -- 13. Byzantine 'visions' of the Ottoman Empire : theories of Ottoman legitimacy by Byzantine scholars after the fall of Constantinople / Konstantinos Moustakas -- 14. Conclusions / Chris Wickham.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409407768
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409407768
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315252681
