The visual culture of later Byzantium (c.1081-c.1350) / edited by Foteini Spingou, The University of Edinburgh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spingou, Foteini, 1985- editor.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Sources for Byzantine art history ; volume 3

Language:

Arabic

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Art and society--Byzantine Empire--Sources.

Art and society.

Iconoclasm--Byzantine Empire--Sources.

Iconoclasm.

Byzantine Empire.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (lxxvi, 1597 pages) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English, Arabic, Greek and Latin.

Summary:

"The period encompassed by this volume of translations opens with a major crisis over the status of the icon and its veneration. Charles Barber and David Jenkins (I.1.1 in this volume) present three extensive texts related to this crisis, which began when Leo of Chalcedon objected to the imperial appropriation of materials bearing sacred images, such as the doors of the Chalkoprateia church in Constantinople. As his arguments against this act unfolded in the period from 1082- to 1095, Leo developed a theory of the image that argued for a formal, as opposed to a material, presence of Christ in his icons. Given this presence of Christ's character, Leo argued that an icon should not be destroyed and that this portrayal deserved adoration. A full account of this argument is presented in Leo's letter to his nephew Nicholas of Adrianoupolis. This letter, which perhaps dates to 1093 or 1094, shows how Leo builds his case upon a reading of the ninth-century iconophile writings of Theodore of Stoudios and other authorities, which Leo reads as offering support for a hypostatic presence in the image mediated by the visible character of the subject. A key response to Leo of Chalcedon's arguments is offered by Eustratios of Nicaea. His Syllogistic Demonstration builds upon the logical model of ninth-century iconophile thought to show that the icon only has a formal relation to the subject depicted in that object. It is a response that is notable for its precise accounts of the limits of depiction, which becomes the description of the outline, form, and dimension of the outward and sensible traits of the appearance of a person. This allows him to argue that the material and sensible icon cannot receive adoration: Christ as God is adored; Christ as God cannot be depicted; therefore, the depicted, as depicted, is not adored. So that in no way can we speak of the adoration of a manufactured icon, or of adoration in an icon"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Art, Aesthetics, and Literature

I.1. Notions of the Image in Later Byzantium

Introduction / Charles Barber

I.1.1. Art and Worship in Komnenian Thought (Dossier) / David Jenkins

I.1.2. John Zonaras, Theodore Balsamon, and Alexios Aristenos: Twelfth-Century Commentaries on Canons 73 and 82 of the Quinisext Council / Nathan Leidholm

I.1.3. Theodore Laskaris: Devotion to the Patriarch and the Church / Dimiter Angelov

I.1.4. John IX Merkouropolos: The Icon of the Theotokos and the Mutilated Hand of St. John of Damascus / Martin Hinterberger

I.1.5. Sallba ibn Yuhanna al-Mawsill: "Books of Mysteries" / Thomas A. Carlson

I.2. Artists and Patrons

Introduction / Foteini Spingou

I.2.1. Eloquent Hands: Epigrams Featuring Named Artists and the Eulalios Dossier (Twelfth to Fourteenth Century) / Ivan Drpic

I.2.2. John Apokaukos: The Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Painter Nicholas from Euripos / Foteini Spingou

I.2.3. Excerpt from a Text on The Miracles of St. Photeine / Alice-Mary Talbot

I.2.4. Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos: A Miracle about Mosaicists Alexander Alexakis (Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary) / Alice-Mary Talbot

I.2.5. St. Neophytos the Recluse on Visual Art (Dossier) / Annemarie Weyl Carr

I.2.6. Asinou, Panagia Phorbiotissa (Dossier) / Annemarie Weyl Carr

I.2.7. The Donors in Panagia tou Arakos, Lagoudera, Cyprus (Dossier) / Annemarie Weyl Carr

I.2.8. Inscriptions in the Church of the Holy Cross, Pelendri, Cyprus (Dossier) / Annemarie Weyl Carr

I.2.9. Manuel Straboromanos: Epigrams on the Emperor's Epanoklivanon / Foteini Spingou

I.3. Eikon and Iconography in Art and Literature

I.3.1. Theodore Prodromos: On Three Round Frames with Depictions / Nikos Zagklas

I.3.2. Theodore Prodromos: On an Icon Bearing a Depiction of / Christ Nikos Zagklas

I.3.3. Anthologia Marciana: On a Depiction of the Most Holy Theotokos Surrounded by Heaven and Angels / Foteini Spingou

I.3.4. Epigrams on Depictions of Christ (Dossier) / Foteini Spingou

I.3.5. ?St Neophytos the Recluse: Inscriptions from the Enkleistra of St. Neophytos the Recluse, Tala, Paphos District, Cyprus / Annemarie Weyl Carr

I.3.6. John Apokaukos: Epigram on a Depiction of the Last Supper / Foteini Spingou

I.3.7. Philagathos of Cerami: The Massacre of the Holy Innocents / Mircea Dulus

I.3.8. Michael Italikos: Render unto Caesar: A Collector Parts with a Rare Coin / Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis

I.3.9. Epigrams on Rings from the Twelfth and Fourteenth Centuries (Dossier) / Foteini Spingou

I.3.10. Niketas Eugenianos: On a Ring with Chastity and Eros / Nikos Zagklas

I.3.11. Eumathios Makrembolites: Domestic Garden Sculpture and Wallpainting in the Romance / Hysminias Alicia Walker

I.3.12. Manganeios Prodromos: To the Sebastokratorissa, On Her Tent Which Has Various Animals Depicted on It / Michael Jeffreys

I.3.13. Theodore Balsamon: Classicizing Imagery in the Decorative Programs of Elite Domestic Architecture: Scholion on Canon 100 of the Quinisext Council of 692 / Alicia Walker

I.3.14. Niketas Eugenianos: On a Depicted Maiden / Nikos Zagklas

I.3.15. Manganeios Prodromos: On Life and the World / Michael Jeffreys

I.3.16. Manganeios Prodromos: Eros as a Painter / Michael Jeffreys

I.4. Materials

I.4.1. Theodore Prodromos: To the Caesar or For the Color Green / Eric Cullhed

I.4.2. Manuel Philes: Philes and the Materials: Epigrams on Stones and Precious Metals (Dossier) / Marina Bazzani

I.4.3. Anthologia Marciana: An Icon of the Baptism Adorned with Precious Stones / Foteini Spingou

I.4.4. Making Colors: Seven Ink Recipes / Foteini Spingou

I.4.5. Nikephoros Blemmydes: Concerning Gold Making / Shannon Steiner

I.4.6. Michael Italikos: A Crown for Sale, in the Words of St. Stephanos / Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis

I.4.7. John Tzetzes: A Letter Mentioning an Inkwell Sent as a Gift / Michael Griinbart

I.5. Seeing Spaces: Responses to the Built Environment

I.5.1. A Latin Description of Constantinople by an Englishman, and its Greek Translation by Constantine Laskaris / Efthymios Rizos

I.5.2. Ralph of Coggeshall: Description of Constantinople / Alex J. Novikoff

I.5.3. Antony, Archbishop of Novgorod: The Pilgrim Book / Charles Barber

I.5.4. History of Mar Yahballaha and of Rabban Sawma / Thomas A. Carlson

I.5.5. All ibn Abi Bakr al-Harawi: Description of Constantinople, from the Guidebook to Places of Pilgrimage (Kitab al-isharat ila ma'rifat al-ziyarat) / Cecilia Palombo

I.5.6. Benjamin of Tudela: Constantinople in Benjamin of Tudelas / Travels Lee Mordechai

I.5.7. Seeing the Spaces of Byzantium in Icelandic Saga: Heimskringla and Morkinskinna (Dossier) / Scott Ashley

I.5.8. "Daniel the Exile": Ekphrasis of Hippodrome Scenes: Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv? / Sarah Simmons

I.5.9. Odo of Deuil: Description of the Philopation / Greti Dinkova-Bruun

I.5.10. John Kinnamos: The Philopation: A Place of Relaxation and Imperial Performance / Michael Griinbart

I.5.11. Digenis Akritis: Description of Digenis' Palace / Elizabeth Jeffreys

I.5.12. John Kinnamos: Paintings in the House of Alexios Axouch in Suburban Constantinople / Alicia Walker

I.5.13. Riccoldo di Pennino da Monte di Croce, OP (Riccoldo da Monte di Croce or Riccoldo da Firenze): Liberperegrinationis/The Book of His Pilgrimage. "On the Holy Sepulchre of the Lord" / M. Michele Mulchahey

I.5.14. George Akropolites: A Letter to John Tornikes on the Duties of Friendship and on Constantinople's Delights / Paul Magdalino

I.5.15. John Apokaukos: A Seljuq-Style Hall in Nafpaktos / Alicia Walker

I.6. Art and Devotion in Later Byzantium

I.6.1. Manuel Gabalas/Matthew of Ephesos: Letter (to John Kantakouzenos?), On an Amulet Depicting Christ and St. John the Apostle / Alexander Riehle

I.6.2. Maximos the Deacon: A Gift of a Textile in Thanksgiving for a Miraculous Cure by Sts. Kosmas and Damian / Alice-Mary Talbot

I.6.3. The Genoese Pallio (Dossier) / Ida Toth

I.6.4. Dedicatory Inscriptions in St. Nicholas tis Stegis Kakopetria, Cyprus (Dossier) / Annemarie Weyl Carr

I.6.5. Two Epigrams on an Icon of the Theotokos Adorned by the Emperor John II Komnenos (Dossier) / Luisa Andriollo

I.6.6. Nicholas Mesarites: Relics of the Passion in the Church of the Pharos in the Account of the Usurpation of John Komnenos "the Fat" / Michael Featherstone

I.6.7. Constantine Stilbes [= Cyril of Kyzikos]: Didaskalia on the Mandylion and the Keramos / Reinhart Ceulemans

I.6.8. Epigrams on Relics and Reliquaries (Dossier) / Brad Hostetler

I.7. Memory and Art

I.7.1. John Apokaukos: What is Memory?: A Letter to Kamateros / Foteini Spingou

I.7.2. Michael Andreopolos: The Book of Syntipas: The Wisdom of the World in Pictures / Martin Hinterberger

I.7.3. Euthymios Malakes: Oration for Manuel I Komnenos When the Sultan Came to Constantinople / Florin Leonte

I.7.4. Anthologia Marciana: A Monumental Cross in Hungary / Foteini Spingou

I.7.5. George Pachymeres: Description of the Column of Michael VIII with St.

Michael / Alice-Mary Talbot

I.7.6. Theodore Prodromos: Dionysos on a Cup: An Excerpt from Rhodanthe and Dosikles / Elizabeth Jeffreys

I.7.7. Theodore Balsamon: Epigrams on a Golden Cup and a Letter about These Verses / Andreas Rhoby

I.7.8. Giordano da Pisa: Remarks on the Authority of Icons from Greece (1306) / John Lansdowne

I.8. Beauty: Introduction

I.8.a. Everyday Beauty

I.8.1. Theodore Metochites: Theodore Metochites on Constantinople (Excerpts from Byzantios) / Ioannis Polemis

I.8.2. Nikephoros Kallistou Xanthopoulos: Ekphraseis of Constantinople, Hagia Sophia, and the Shrine of Pege (Dossier) / Alexander Alexakis

I.8.3. Theodore Laskaris: Visit to Pergamon / Dimiter Angelov

I.8.4. Basil Pediadites: Living in Corfu: A Letter to Constantine / Stilbes Foteini Spingou

I.8.5. John Apokaukos: Nafpaktos and the Episkopeion: A Letter by John Apokaukos to the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki / Foteini Spingou

I.8.6. Philagathos of Cerami: The Ekphrasis on the Cappella Palatina in Palermo / Mircea Dulus

I.8.7. Manuel Philes: On a Depiction of the Rulers by the Gates of Medeia / Marina Bazzani

I.8.b. Natural Beauty

I.8.8. Constantine Harmenopoulos: On the Protection of Views / Daphne Penna

I.8.9. Theodore Metochites: Theodore Metochites on the Beauty of Nature (Excerpts from the Miscellanea) / Ioannis Polemis

I.8.10. Dialog between a Roman Cardinal (the Azymite) and Constantine (Panagiotes) / Vasileios Marinis

I.8.11. Niketas Eugenianos: Ekphrasis of a Meadow: An Excerpt from / Charikles Elizabeth Jeffreys

I.8.12. ?Andronikos Komnenos Doukas Branas Angelos Palaiologos: The Bath House in the Garden of the Dragon's Castle from / Chrysorrhoe Kirsty Stewart

I.8.13. Euthymios Malakes: Verses Written on the Bath of Choumnos which is in the Middle of a Garden / Peter Van Deun

I.8.c. Human Beauty

I.8.14. Digenis Akritis: Description of the Young Digenis / Elizabeth Jeffreys

I.8.15. Niketas Eugenianos: Ekphrasis of Drosilla / Elizabeth Jeffreys

I.8.16. ?Andronikos Komnenos Doukas Branas Angelos Palaiologos: From the Description of the Beautiful Chrysorrhoe from / Chrysorrhoe Kirsty Stewart

Contents note continued: I.8.17. Manganeios Prodromos: A Synkrisis of a Portrait of the Emperor Manuel with an Imagined Version of a Famous Painting from / Michael Jeffreys

I.8.18. Manganeios Prodromos: The Emperor Manuel is Magnificent in a Joust / Michael Jeffreys

I.8.d. Artistic Beauty

I.8.19. John Apokaukos: An Epigram on a Depiction of St. Mary of Egypt / Foteini Spingou

I.8.20. Philagathos of Cerami: On the Raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain / Mircea Dulus

I.8.21. Manuel Philes: On a Lion Depicted on the Ground / Maria Mavroudi

I.8.22. Nikephoros Choumnos: A Letter to Demetrios Kabasilas, On the Beauty of his Handwriting / Alexander Riehle

I.8.23. ?Nerses Snorhali: Commentary on the Canon Tables / Christina Maranci

pt. II Literature, Art, and Aesthetics

II.1. Counting Down: Inventories

Introduction / Maria Parani

II.1.1. Inventory (Apographe) of the Monastery of the Theotokos of Xyl ourgou / Ludovic Bender

II.1.2. Kale Pakouriane: Testament of Kale / Alice-Mary Talbot

II.1.3. How to Write an Inventory: A Model from a Cypriot / Foteini Spingou

II.2. Describing, Experiencing, Narrating: The Use of Ekphrasis

Introduction / Ingela Nilsson

II.2.1. Eustathios of Thessaloniki: Homeric Art Objects in the Parekbolai on the Iliad / Eric Cullhed

II.2.2. Constantine Manasses: Description of a Little Man / Ingela Nilsson

II.2.3. John "Phokas" (Doukas): A Brief Ekphrasis of the Settlements from Antioch to Jerusalem, and the Lands of Syria, Phoenicia, and the Holy Land in Palestine / Konstantinos Chryssogelos

II.2.4. Leo Megistos: A Relief of a Muse in Twelfth-Century Constantinople / Maria Tomadaki

II.2.5. Manuel Philes: Manuel Philes' Metaphrasis of the Verses of Lucian on the Painting Depicting the Wedding of Alexander / Przemyslaw Marciniak

II.2.6. Philagathos of Cerami: The Decollation of the John the Baptist / Mircea Dulus

II.3. Speaking: Ethopoiia

Introduction / Elizabeth Jeffreys

II.3.1. John Kinnamos: Ethopoiia on a Painter Trying to Paint Apollo on an Uncooperative Panel of Laurel Wood / Katarzyna Warcaba

II.3.2. Manganeios Prodromos: Saints Theodore Teron and Stratelates Speak to Each Other on Behalf of John Machetares / Michael Jeffreys

II.3.3. Nicholas Kallikles: The Stranger and the Tomb: Funerary Verses for Andronikos Palaiologos Doukas / Luisa Andriollo

II.3.4. Theodore Prodromos: On the Image of Vios / Nikos Zagklas

II.4. Instructing and Dedicating: Epigrams on Works of Art

II.4.1. Theodore Prodromos: On the Sword of Alexios Kontostephanos / Nikos Zagklas

II.4.2. Nicholas Kallikles: Epigrams on a Saint George Sculpted on Marble / Luisa Andriollo

II.4.3. Gregory of Corinth: A Cycle of Epigrams on the Dodecaorton / Nikos Zagklas

II.4.4. John Apokaukos: An Epigram on the Basin in the Palace / Foteini Spingou

II.4.5. An Inscription from Santa Maria di Cerrate, near Squinzano, Italy / Linda Safran

II.4.6. Manganeios Prodromos: Verses on Icon Veils Dedicated by the Sebastokratorissa Eirene in Churches in Constantinople / Michael Jeffreys

II.4.7. Manganeios Prodromos: Verses on Chalice Covers Dedicated by the Sebastokratorissa Eirene / Michael Jeffreys

II.4.8. Manuel Philes: Epigram on an Icon of the Archangel Michael on Behalf of the Protostrator Glabas / Andreas Rhoby

II.4.9. Hagioanargyrites: Verses on a Steatite Icon with the Depiction of Christ's Birth and a Bust of Christ / Andreas Rhoby

II.4.10. Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Monastery of St. John Chrysostom, Koutsovendis, Cyprus / Annemarie Weyl Carr

II.4.11. Manuel Philes: Epigrams on the Lifegiving Source (Pege) / Alice-Mary Talbot

II.5. Reading: Book Epigrams

Introduction / Kristoffel Demoen

II.5.1. An Aristophanean Epigram on the Psalter / Kristoffel Demoen

II.5.2. Manuel Philes and (An) Anonymous Poet(s): Epigrams on the Evangelists in an Illuminated Gospel Manuscript (Dossier) / Kristoffel Demoen

III.5.3. John (the Writer): A Metrical Colophon on John Klimax's / Renaat Meesters

II.5.4. Theodore Prodromos: A Laudatory Epigram on Gregory of Nazianzos / Rachele Ricceri

II.5.5. Constantine Manasses: A Dedicatory Epigram to the Sebastokratorissa Eirene / Maria Tomadaki

II.5.6. Athens, Benaki Museum, Vitr. 34.3 / Annemarie Weyl Carr

II.6. Inscribing: Later Byzantine Epigraphic Culture

Introduction / Ida Toth

II.6.1. Nicholas-Nektarios of Otranto: Verses Written on Behalf of a Palace / Peter Van Deun

II.6.2. Epigram on a Deesis Mosaic / Sophia Kalopissi-Verti

II.6.3. The Quadrilingual Epitaph of Anna, the Mother of Grisandus, a Priest of the Cappella Palatina, Palermo / Jeremy Johns

II.6.4. An Inscription from the Synagogue at Gravina (Apulia) / Linda Safran

II.6.5. An Inscription from the Great Synagogue at Trani / Linda Safran

II.6.6. Ephraim: The Dedicatory Mosaic in the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem / Lisa Mahoney

II.6.7. John of Moutoullas: Inscriptions in the Church of the Panagia, Moutoullas, Cyprus / Annemarie Weyl Carr

II.6.8. Inscriptions from Trikomo Church of the Panagia Theotokos / Annemarie Weyl Carr

II.6.9. Inscriptions from Dali: Church of St. Demetrianos Andridiotes / Annemarie Weyl Carr

II.6. To Building Inscription from the Church of St. Nicholas, Manastir, North Macedonia / Ida Toth

II.6.11. Sava of Serbia: The Ktetor's Inscription in The Church of the Holy Virgin, Studenica, Serbia / Irena Spadijer

II.6.12. A Greek-Georgian Inscription, King David the Builder, and the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai / Ekaterine Gedevanishvili

II.6.13. An Inscription from San Michele Arcangelo, Masseria Li Monaci, near Copertino, Italy / Linda Safran

II.7. Lamenting: Tomb Epigrams

II.7.1. Anthologia Marciana: On the Tomb of a Certain Woman Who Died Unexpectedly from a Throat Infection / Foteini Spingou

II.7.2. John Apokaukos: A Tomb Epigram on a Shared Burial / Foteini Spingou

II.7.3. Anthologia Marciana: Epigrams on the Tomb of Two Komnenian Aristocratic Ladies / Foteini Spingou

II.7.4. Manuel Maximos Planoudes: A Tomb Epigram for John Chameas / Ilias Taxidis

II.7.5. Manuel Philes: Epigram on the Cornice of the Chapel of St. Mary Pammakaristos Church / Andreas Rhoby.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781108483056

1108483054

9781108831932

1108831931

9781108831949

110883194X

OCLC:

1251501520

Publisher Number:

99991025839