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Imagining the divine : exploring art in religions of late antiquity across Eurasia

Title
Imagining the divine : exploring art in religions of late antiquity across Eurasia / edited by Jaś Elsner and Rachel Wood.
Publication
  • London : The British Museum, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Elsner, Jaś
  • Wood, Rachel, 1985-
  • University of Oxford, host institution.
  • British Museum, host instution.
  • Talking Religion (Workshops) (2017 : Oxford, England)
  • Imagining the Divine (Conference) (2018 : Oxford, England)
Description
184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm.
Series Statement
Research publication ; 234
Uniform Title
Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 234.
Subject
  • To 1500
  • Idols and images > Eurasia > History > To 1500 > Congresses
  • Idols and images in art > Congresses
  • Art, Ancient > Eurasia > Congresses
  • Antiquities
  • Art, Ancient
  • Idols and images
  • Idols and images in art
  • Eurasia > Antiquities > Congresses
  • Eurasia
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • History.
Note
  • "The University of Oxford and the British Museum invited a number of distinguished speakers from across the world to speak at a series of lectures and seminars in the course of 2017, and held a major conference in January 2018 ; the papers in this volume have been drawn from these sources."--Page 1.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The materiality of the divine : aniconism, iconoclasm and iconography / Salvatore Settis, with a response .from Maria Lidova -- Bodies, bases and borders : framing the divine in Greco-Roman antiquity / Verity Platt, with a response from Dominic Dalglish -- Comparing material texts / Katherine Cross -- Kufa and Kells : the illuminated word as sign and presence in the seventh-ninth centuries / Benjamin C. Tilghman and Umberto Bongianino -- The Jewish image of God in late antiquity / Martin Goodman, with a response from Hindy Najman and ]aś Elsner -- Empire and faith : the heterotopian space of the Franks Casket / Catherine E. Karkov, with a response from Katherine Cross -- Buddhapada : the enlightened being and the limits of representation at Amaravati / Jaś Elsner, with a response from Alice Casalini -- From Serapis to Christ to the Caliph : faces as a re-appropriation of the past / Ivan Foletti and Katharina Meinecke, with a response .from Nadia Ali -- Uses of decorated silver plate in imperial Rome and Sasanian Iran / Richard Hobbs, with a response from Rachel Wood -- Material religion in comparative perspective : how different is BCE from CE? / Christoph Uehlinger, with a response from Stefanie Lenk.
Call Number
JQG 21-725
ISBN
  • 9780861592340
  • 0861592344
OCLC
1242750283
Title
Imagining the divine : exploring art in religions of late antiquity across Eurasia / edited by Jaś Elsner and Rachel Wood.
Publisher
London : The British Museum, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Research publication ; 234
Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 234.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
To 1500
Added Author
Elsner, Jaś, editor.
Wood, Rachel, 1985- editor.
University of Oxford, host institution.
British Museum, host instution.
Talking Religion (Workshops) (2017 : Oxford, England)
Imagining the Divine (Conference) (2018 : Oxford, England)
Research Call Number
JQG 21-725
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