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Epigram, art, and devotion in later Byzantium / Ivan Drpić.
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- Author/Creator:
- Drpić, Ivan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts and society--Byzantine Empire.
- Arts and society.
- Arts and religion--Byzantine Empire.
- Arts and religion.
- Identity (Psychology) in art.
- Epigrams, Byzantine.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
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- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title ; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication ; Table of contents ; List of illustrations ; List of color plates ; Acknowledgments ; Note to the reader ; List of abbreviations ; Introduction ; I. ; II. ; III. ; 1 From composition to performance: epigrams in context.
- Why verse? Epigrams and the power of logos Verses on the page: epigrams in the manuscript record ; Patrons, poets, artists ; Epigrams and the viewer/reader ; 2 The patron's ''I'' ; Between praise and prayer: the patron in the dedicatory epigram ; The patron says ''I''
- Performed identities, crafted selves 3 Kosmos ; What is kosmos? ; Kosmos, matter, and the sacred ; Cladding/clothing ; 4 Golden words ; Script as orcament ; Verses in space ; Labyrinths and crosses: figured epigrams ; Logikos kosmos ; 5 Devotional gifts.
- Toward a typology of devotional gifts Gifts, prayers, and memory ; Paradoxical exchange ; 6 The erotics of devotion ; Of gifts and love ; Defining pothos ; Personal patronage and the rhetoric of pothos ; 7 Image of the beloved ; Affective images.
- Adornment, desire, and the relational self Epithets ; Pothos portrayed ; Conclusion ; Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 11, 2016).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Drpić, Ivan. Epigram, art, and devotion in later Byzantium.
- ISBN:
- 9781316657843
- 1316657841
- 9781316584989
- 1316584984
- 9781316656440
- 1316656446
- 1316657493
- 9781316657492
- Publisher Number:
- 99984040287
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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