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the power of images in Byzantium : studies presented to Robin Cormack

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Ashgate
Language
English
Pages
301

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Icon and Word: The Power of Images in Byzantium
December 2003, Ashgate Publishing
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Cover of: ICON AND WORD: THE POWER OF IMAGES IN BYZANTIUM: STUDIES PRESENTED TO ROBIN CORMACK; ED. BY ANTONY EASTMOND.

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Table of Contents

Icon, idol, totem and fetish / Annabel Wharton
When all that is gold does not glitter: on the strange history of looking at Byzantine art / Rico Franses
Icon and portrait in the trial of Symeon the new theologian / Charles Barber
The power of inscriptions and the trouble with texts / Karen Boston
Art and lies: text, image, and imagination in the medieval world / Liz James
Between icon and idol: the uncertainty of imperial images / Antony Eastmond
The icon is dead, long live the icon: the holy image in the Renaissance / Robert Maniura
Picturing new Jerusalem / John Wilkinson
Bleeding icons / Maria Vassilaki
Images of the mother of God in early medieval Rome / John Osborne
Iconic images of children in the Church of St Demetrios, Thessaloniki / Cecily Hennessy
The 'statuesque hodegetria' and the limitations of the sculptured icon / John Hanson
The migrating image: uses and abuses of Byzantine icons in western Europe / Barbara Zeitler
For the salvation of a woman's soul: an icon of St Michael described within a medieval Coptic context / Lucy-Anne Hunt
Archimedes into icon: forging an image of Byzantium / John Lowden
The purple thread of the flesh: the theological connotations of a narrative iconographic element in Byzantine images of the annunciation / Maria Evangelatou

Edition Notes

Essays by doctoral students of Robin Cormack

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-296) and index

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Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT
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Icon & word

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Library of Congress
N8187 .I24 2003

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Pagination
xxxiv, 301 p., 4 p. of plates :
Number of pages
301

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OL17115343M
ISBN 10
075463549X
LCCN
2003045159
OCLC/WorldCat
505723371, 222895421
LibraryThing
4565543
Goodreads
69023

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OL19269740W

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