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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brubaker, Leslie.

Lymberopoulou, Angeliki.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Byzantine.

History.

Art, Byzantine.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Social aspects.

Nonverbal communication.

Visual communication.

Idols and images.

Visions.

Intellectual life.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization.

Byzantine Empire.

Civilization.

Byzantine Empire--Intellectual life.

Byzantine Empire--Church history.

Church history.

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.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 246 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2011]

Summary:

This festschrift honors Leslie Brubaker on her 60th birthday, celebrating three decades of teaching. She taught for many years at Wheaton College, but has been affiliated with the U. of Birmingham in the UK since 1994. Her expertise is Byzantine illustrated manuscripts and the proliferation of the cult of the Virgin Mary in Byzantium. Fourteen contributions by colleagues and students, including several senior scholars in the field explore topics pertaining to her interests including, for example, touch and meaning of Byzantine art, by Liz James (U. of Sussex, the UK); the context of sermons read in Byzantine churches and monasteries, by Mary B. Cunningham (U. of Birmingham); the message of the heavenly ladder image in Sinai Ms.Gr.417, by Kathleen Corrigan (Dartmouth College) and Nancy P. Sevcenko (independent scholar, Vermont, US); and theories of Ottoman legitimacy by 15th-century Byzantine scholars, by Konstantinos Moustakas (U. of Crete, Greece). The volume is well illustrated with b&w plates. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409407768

1409407764

OCLC:

658117079