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List of contents
Contents: Leslie Brubaker: Biography and Published Works, Kallirroe Linardou; Preface, Angeliki Lymberopoulou; 'Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth': touch and the meaning of Byzantine art, Liz James; Memories of buildings? Messages in late antique architectural representations, Maria Cristina Carile; 'And the mother did not spare the baby in her breast' or searching for meaning in tecnoctonia and tecnophagy, Dionysios Stathakopoulos; The anxiety of images: meanings and material objects, Averil Cameron; Messages, meanings and metamorphoses: the icon of the Transfiguration of Zarzma, Antony Eastmond; Messages in context: the reading of sermons in Byzantine churches and monasteries, Mary B. Cunningham; 'The teaching of the ladder': the message of the Heavenly Ladder image in Sinai ms. gr. 417, Kathleen Corrigan and Nancy P. Sevcenko; Visions and meanings: personifications in Octateuch cycles, Maja Kominko; 'Signs and symbols of your always victorious reign'. The political ideology and meaning of falconry in Byzantium, Henry Maguire; Messages in the landscape: searching for Gregory Nazianzenos in Cappadocia (with two excursions to the Canli Kilise), Robert Ousterhout; New visions of old meanings: Paris gr. 135 and some anti-Latin visual implications, Kallirroe Linardou; The Noli Me Tangere icon at the British Museum: vision, message and reality, Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Lynne Harrison and Janet Ambers; Byzantine 'visions' of the Ottoman empire: theories of Ottoman legitimacy by Byzantine scholars after the fall of Constantinople, Konstantinos Moustakas; Conclusions, Chris Wickham; Index.
About the author
Angeliki Lymberopoulou is Lecturer in Art History at The Open University, UK
Summary
The focus of this volume is the identification of 'visions', 'messages', and 'meanings' in various facets of Byzantine culture and the possible differences perceived by their original audience and modern scholars. It addresses how far interpretations should go, whether there is a tendency to read too much into too little, or whether not enough atte
