Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium - Image As Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus

Klappentext Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the aftermath of Iconoclasm. Zusammenfassung Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the aftermath of Iconoclasm. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Sitting the miniatures: imagery in the ninth century; 2. The miniatures: internal evidence; 3. The biographical miniatures: toward image as exegesis; 4. Basil I and visual panegyric; 5. The patriarch Photios and visual exegesis; 6. Mission, martyrdom and visual polemic; 7. Perceptions of divinity; 8. Iconography; 9. Conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Leslie Brubaker, Leslie (University of Birmingham) Brubaker, Professor Leslie Brubaker
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521101813
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10181-3
• Pages: 572
• Thème: Cambridge Studies in Palaeogra
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Histoire de l'art