Research Catalog

Title

Icon and word : the power of images in Byzantium : studies presented to Robin Cormack / edited by Antony Eastmond and Liz James.

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eastmond, Antony, 1966-
• James, Liz.
• Cormack, Robin.

Description

xxxiv, 301 p., 4 p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Alternative Title

Icon & word

Subject

• Icons, Byzantine
• Art, Byzantine

Note

• Essays by doctoral students of Robin Cormack.

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

JQE 04-160

ISBN

075463549X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003045159

OCLC

51818680

Title

Icon and word : the power of images in Byzantium : studies presented to Robin Cormack / edited by Antony Eastmond and Liz James.

Imprint

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003.

Bibliography

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

Added Author

Eastmond, Antony, 1966-

James, Liz.

Cormack, Robin.

Spine Title

Icon & word

Research Call Number

JQE 04-160