A companion to Byzantine illustrated manuscripts / edited by Vasiliki Tsamakda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tsamakda, Vasiliki, editor.

Series:

Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; volume 2.

Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine.

Physical Description:

xxi, 520 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

This volume offers an overview of Byzantine manuscript illustration, a central branch of Byzantine art and culture. Just like written texts, illustrations bear witness to Byzantine material culture, imperial ideology and religious beliefs, as well as to the development and spread of Byzantine art. In this sense illustrated books reflect the society that produced and used them. Being portable, they could serve as diplomatic gifts or could be acquired by foreigners. In such cases they became "emissaries" of Byzantine art and culture in Western Europe and the Arabic world. The volume provides for the first time a comprehensive overview of the material, divided by text categories, including both secular and religious manuscripts, and analyses which texts were illustrated in Byzantium, and how.

Contents:

The Use and Function of Illustrated Books in Byzantine Society / Jean-Michel Spieser

The Study of Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts since Kurt Weitzmann : Art Historical Methods and Approaches / Ioli Kalavrezou and Courtney Tomaselli

Codicology and Palaeography / Sofia Kotzabassi

Scientific, Medical and Technical Manuscripts / Stavros Lazaris

Historical Writings / Vasiliki Tsamakda

Homeric Epics / Maria Laura Tomea Gavazzoli

Barlaam and Ioasaph / Marina Toumpouri

The Alexander Romance / Nicolette S. Trahoulia

The Vatican Epithalamion / Cecily Hennessy

The Complete Bible / Elisabeth Yota

The Book of Genesis / Markos Giannoulis

The Joshua Roll / Vasiliki Tsamakda

The Octateuch / Mika Takiguchi

The Vatican Book of Kings (*Vat. gr. 333) / Ioli Kalavrezou

The Book of Job / Justine M. Andrews

The Prophet Book / Mika Takiguchi

New Testament Imagery / Annemarie Weyl Carr

Illustrated Byzantine Gospel Books / Kathleen Maxwell

The Lectionary / Elisabeth Yota

Psalters and Books of Hours (Horologia) / Georgi R. Parpulov

Liturgical Scrolls / Vasileios Marinis

Synaxaria and Menologia / Nancy P. Ševčenko

The Akathistos Hymn / Elina Dobrynina

The Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus / Leslie Brubaker

The Homilies of John Chrysostom / Vasiliki Tsamakda

The Homilies of Iakovos of the Kokkinobaphou Monastery / Kallirroe Linardou

The Christian Topography of Kosmas Indikopleustes / Maja Kominko

The Heavenly Ladder / Maria Evangelatou

Sacra Parallela (*Par. gr. 923) / Maria Evangelatou

The Dogmatic Panoply / Georgi R. Parpulov.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Companion to Byzantine illustrated manuscripts

ISBN:

9789004343184

9004343180

OCLC:

978286807