Inscribing texts in Byzantium : continuities and transformations : papers from the Forty-Ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies / edited by Marc D. Lauxtermann and Ida Toth.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Lauxtermann, Marc Diederik, editor.

Toth, Ida, 1968- editor.

Conference Name:

Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (49th : 2016 : Exeter College, University of Oxford)

Series:

Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ; 23.

Society for the promotion of Byzantine studies ; Publication 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inscriptions, Byzantine--Congresses.

Inscriptions, Byzantine.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxv, 381 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color), maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Continuities and transformations : papers from the Forty-Ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

Papers from the 49th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium aims to promote the field of Byzantine epigraphy as a whole, and topics and subjects covered include: Byzantine attitudes towards the inscribed word, the questions of continuity and transformation, the context and function of epigraphic evidence, the levels of formality and authority, the material aspect of writing, and the verbal, visual and symbolic meaning of inscribed texts. The collection is intended as a valuable scholarly resource presenting and examining a substantial quantity of diverse epigraphic material, and outlining the chronological development of epigraphic habits, and of individual epigraphic genres in Byzantium. The contributors also discuss the methodological questions of collecting, presenting and interpreting the most representative Byzantine inscriptional material, and addressing epigraphic material to make it relevant to a wider scholarly community."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

OPENING ADDRESS / Cyril Mango

PART I. AFTER LATE ANTIQUITY: TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONS

The process of 'Byzantinization' in Late Antique epigraphy / Sylvain Destephen

Village churches and donors at the end of Antiquity / Ine Jacobs

Reading, viewing and inscribing faith: Christian epigraphy in the early Umayyad Levant / Sean Leatherbury

The epigraphy of the Abgar Story: Traditions and transitions / Ida Toth

PART II. LEGIBILITY AND READABILITY

Inscriptions and the Byzantine beholder: The perception of script / Andreas Rhoby

Non-exposed funerary inscriptions and the cult of the cross between Italy and Byzantium, 6th-9th c. / Antonio Felle

PART III. CHURCH AND STATE

The house of inscriptions: The epigraphic world of the middle Byzantine church / Georgios Pallis

State, strategy, and ideology in monumental imperial inscriptions / Nicholas Melvani

Inscriptions of church and state officials on Byzantine lead seals / Alexandra Wassiliou-Seibt

PART IV. FORMAL AND INFORMAL INSCRIPTIONS IN ATHENS

The (in)formality of the inscribed word at the Parthenon: Legibility, script, content / Maria Xenaki

Information Classification: General

Byzantine funerary inscriptions on the Hephaisteion (Church of St George) in the Athenian Agora / Anne McCabe

PART V. OBJECTS, TEXTS AND IMAGES

Towards a typology for the placement of names on works of art / Brad Hostetler

Word of image: Textual frames of early Byzantine icons / Maria Lidova

Short texts on small objects: The poetics of the Byzantine enkolpion / Ivan Drpić

PART VI. CASE STUDIES

A Byzantine verse inscription from Konya / Marc Lauxtermann and Peter Thonemann

The church of Sts Theodoroi (formerly St Kournatos) in Myrtia, Laconia, and its inscriptions / Christos Stavrakos

A Lombard epigram in Greek / Marc Lauxtermann

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.

Other Format:

Online version: Inscribing texts in Byzantium

ISBN:

9780367246136

0367246139

OCLC:

1126347096