Inscribing Texts in Byzantium (eBook, PDF)

Continuities and Transformations
Redaktion: Lauxtermann, Marc; Toth, Ida

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Topics in this volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium include: Byzantine attitudes towards the inscribed word, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000032178
• Artikelnr.: 58644235

Autorenporträt

Marc D. Lauxtermann, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, Exeter College, University of Oxford Ida Toth, University Research Lecturer and Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

Opening Address
Part 1. After Late Antiquity: Traditions and Transitions
1. The process of 'Byzantinization' in Late Antique epigraphy
2. Village churches and donors at the end of Antiquity
3. Reading, viewing and inscribing faith: Christian epigraphy in the early Umayyad Levant
4. The epigraphy of the Abgar Story: Traditions and transitions
Part 2. Legibility and Readability
5. Inscriptions and the Byzantine beholder: The perception of script
6. Non-exposed funerary inscriptions and the cult of the cross between Italy and Byzantium, 6th-9th c
Part 3. Church and State
7. The house of inscriptions: The epigraphic world of the middle Byzantine church
8. State, strategy, and ideology in monumental imperial inscriptions
9. Inscriptions of church and state officials on Byzantine lead seals
Part 4. Formal and Informal Inscriptions in Athens
10. The (in)formality of the inscribed word at the Parthenon: Legibility, script, content
11. Byzantine funerary inscriptions on the Hephaisteion (Church of St George) in the Athenian Agora
Part 5. Objects, Texts and Images
12. Towards a typology for the placement of names on works of art
13. Word of image: Textual frames of early Byzantine icons
14. Short texts on small objects: The poetics of the Byzantine enkolpion
Part 6. Case Studies
15. A Byzantine verse inscription from Konya
16. The church of Sts Theodoroi (formerly St Kournatos) in Myrtia, Laconia, and its inscriptions
17. A Lombard epigram in Greek