Graphic signs of authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900 / Ildar Garipzanov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garipzanov, Ildar H., author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Oxford studies in medieval European history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monograms.

History.

Symbolism.

Signs and symbols.

Europe.

Mediterranean Region.

Signs and symbols--Europe--History--To 1500.

Signs and symbols--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Symbolism--Europe--History--To 1500.

Symbolism--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Monograms--History--To 1500.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Graphic Signs Of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages' presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as the sign of the cross, christograms, monograms, and other such devices, are examined against the backdrop of the cultural, religious, and socio-political transition from the late Graeco-Roman world to that of medieval Europe. 00This monograph is a synthetic study of graphic visual evidence from a wide range of material media that have rarely been studied collectively, including various mass-produced items and unique objects of art, architectural monuments and epigraphic inscriptions, as well as manuscripts and charters. This study promises to provide a timely reference tool for historians, art historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, manuscript scholars, and numismatists.

Contents:

Introduction : Graphic signs, graphic visualization, and early graphicacy

Graphic signs of authority and political culture

Graphic signs of authority: historiographic trends

Cultural history of graphic signs of authority. I Graphic signs of divine authority in late antiquity : 1 The origins of early Christian graphic signs : The nomina sacra, staurogram, and Chi-Rho

Early Christian authors on symbolic meanings of letters and Christian graphic signs

Protective seals and the Bruce Codex

"Magical" characters and their early Christian critics

Apotropaic graphic devices as a symptomatic feature of late antique culture. 2 Christograms as signs of authority in the late Roman empire : Lactantius and Constantine I's victorious sign in 312

Eusebius and the appropriation of the Chi-Rho as an imperial triumphant symbol in the 320-40s

The hierarchy of Christian signs in the visual communication of imperial authority in the second half of the fourth and early fifth centuries

Christograms as paradigmatic Christian symbols at the turn of the fifth century.

3 The sign of the cross in late antiquity : The early symbolism of the cross and the origins of the cult of the Holy Cross

The Sign of the Cross as a late antique symbol of authority

The apotropaic power of the Sign of the Cross in late antiquity. II Monogrammatic culture in late antiquity : 4 Monograms, early Christians, and late antique culture : Late antique epigraphic culture and monograms as epigraphic devices

The Calendar of 354 and fourth-century Roman aristocratic culture

Monograms as protective and intercessory devices

The contemplative process involved in understanding monograms and late antique neoplatonism. 5 Secular monograms, social status, and authority in the late Roman world and early Byzantium : The numismatic monogram of Theodosius II: monograms as signs of imperial authority in the middle and second half of the fifth century

Monograms as signs of authority on silverware, weights, bricks, and consular diptychs

Monograms as visual signs of social power, noble identity, and elevated status: rings, dress accessories, and luxury objects

Monograms as symptomatic feature of late antique paideia. 6 Public monuments and the monogrammatic display of authority in the post-Roman world : From consular diptychs to the monumental display of authority: Juliana Aniana and St. Polyeuktos (c.506-27)

Justinian I, Theodora, and a defensive response: Sts Sergius and Bacchus (c.527-32)

The monogrammatic display of imperial authority in Hagia Sophia (532-7

Monumental monograms and early medieval bishops. III Graphic signs of authority in early medieval Europe : 7 Monogrammatic culture in pre-Carolingian Europe : Monograms as royal signs of authority

Monograms as signs of social status and Episcopal authority in pre-Carolingian Europe

Invocational graphic devices in pre-Carolingian material and manuscript culture

Christograms and the Sign of the Cross in pre-Carolingian material and manuscript culture

Late antique monogrammatic culture and the origins of monogrammatic lettering. 8 Monogrammatic revival in the Carolingian world : Monogrammatic initials in Carolingian Gospel-books and sacramentaries

Royal, Episcopal, Papal monograms as signs of authority in the Carolingian world

A monogrammatic revival in Carolingian manuscript culture and De inventione litterarum. 9 The power of the cross and cruciform devices in the Carolingian world : The Bible of San Paolo fuori le mura and cruciform invocations in Carolingian religious manuscripts

The Sign of the Cross in manuscript and material culture

Hrabanus Marus' In honorem sanctae crucis: the Sign of the Cross as the main organizing principle of Carolingian graphicacy. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-358) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780198815013

0198815018

OCLC:

1010659456