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Art and text in Byzantine culture

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Art and text in Byzantine culture / edited by Liz James.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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James, Liz.

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xv, 230 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.

Contents

Introduction : art and text in Byzantium / Liz James -- Accomplishing the picture : ekphrasis, mimesis and martyrdom in Asterios of Amaseia / Ruth Webb -- The rhetoric of buildings in the De Aedificiis of Procopius / Jaś Elsner -- Every cliché in the book : the linguistic turn and the text-image discourse in Byzantine manuscripts / Leslie Brubaker -- In the presence of the text : a note on writing, speaking and performing in the Theodore psalter / Charles Barber -- Image and inscription : pleas for salvation in spaces of devotion / Robert S. Nelson -- Epigrams on icons / Bissera V. Pentcheva -- Eufrasius and friends : on names and their absence in Byzantine art / Henry Maguire -- Echoes of orality in the monumental inscriptions of Byzantium / Amy Papalexandrou -- 'And shall these mute stones speak?' : text as art / Liz James.

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