The traditio legis : anatomy of an image / Robert Couzin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Couzin, Robert, author.

Series:

Archaeopress archaeology.

Archaeopress archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Iconography.

Jesus Christ.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, [2015]

Summary:

This monograph engages in a close reading of the traditio legis, highlighting its novelty and complexity to early Christian viewers. The image is analyzed as a conflation of two distinct forms of representation, each constructed of unusual and potentially multivalent elements.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Part I. An introduction to the image

Chapter 1

The invention of the traditio legis

1.1 Nomenclature

1.2 Definition

Chapter 2

The corpus of monuments

2.1 Sarcophagi

2.2 Other media

2.3 Summary

Chapter 3

Dating

Chapter 4

Visibility

Part II. Meaning and reception

Chapter 5

The three men

Chapter 6

The Lord's right side

6.1 Paul

6.2 Christ

6.3 The Lord omnipotent

Chapter 7

The Lord's left side

7.1 Christ

7.2 Peter

7.3 The book

Chapter 8

Framing and context

8.1 Structures and cities

8.2 Other figures and scenes

8.3 Symbolic forms

8.4 Family representations

Chapter 9

Synthesis

9.1 Left and right

9.2 This world and the next

9.3 Eschatological, Apocalyptic or apocalyptic

9.4 Epilogue

Abbreviations

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59. Apse mosaic with traditio clavium. Santa Costanza, Rome. Photograph by author.

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781784910822

1784910821