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The apse mosaic in early medieval Rome : time, network, and repetition

Title: The apse mosaic in early medieval Rome : time, network, and repetition / Erik Thunø, Rugers University.
Author: Thunø, Erik
Publication: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Description

xv, 325 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates; 26 cm

Summary

"This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome, which were commissioned by a series of popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Through a synchronic approach that challenges current conceptions about how works of art interact with historical time, Erik Thunø proposes that the apse mosaics produce an inter-visual network that collapses their chronological succession in time into a continuous present in which the faithful join the saints in the one living body of the Church of Rome. Throughout, this book situates the apse mosaics within the broader context of viewership, the cult of relics, epigraphic tradition, and church ritual while engaging topics concerned with intercession, materiality, repetition, and vision"--

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Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Repetition: saints, popes, and golden texts -- 2. Transformation: from material church to spiritual body -- 3. Incorporation: becoming a living stone -- 4. Networking: building a communion sanctorum -- Afterword: meaning and presence -- Appendix.

ISBN

9781107069909
1107069904

LCCN

2014038388
99963790451

OCLC

892476275
ocn892476275
SCSB-5811770

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Columbia University Libraries