Research Catalog

Title

Intelligible beauty : recent research on Byzantine jewellery / edited by Chris Entwistle and Noel Adams.

Publication

London : British Museum ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed in North America by] D. Brown Bk. Co., c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Entwistle, Christopher
• Adams, Noël.

Description

ix, 236 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

British Museum research publication, 1747-3640 ; no. 178

Uniform Title

Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 178.

Subjects

• Art objects, Byzantine
• Art objects, Byzantine > Congresses
• Jewelry, Byzantine > Congresses

Note

• Papers originally presented at a conference held at the British Museum and King's College, London, May 27-29, 2008.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The six techniques of pierced jewellery in Late Antiquity and their evolution / Bálint László Toth -- Some unconventional early Byzantine rings / Jeffrey Spier -- Notes on selected recent acquisitions of Byzantine jewellery at the British Museum / Chris Entwistle -- The evidence for jewellery production in Constantinople in the early Byzantine period / Yvonne Stolz -- Important bracelets in early Christian and Byzantine art / Aimilia Yeroulanou -- Byzantine Jewellery? : Amethyst beads in east and west during the early Byzantine period / Jörg Drauschke -- Byzantine belt ornaments of the 7th and 8th centuries in Avar contexts / Falko Daim -- Byzantine influences on Visigothic jewellery / Barry Ager -- Rethinking the Sutton Hoo shoulder clasps and armour / Noël Adams -- Byzantines, Goths and Lombards in Italy : jewellery, dress and cultural interactions / Neil Christie -- Sicily and Southern Italy : use and production in the Byzantine koiné / Isabella Baldini Lippolis -- Byzantine dress accessories in North Africa : koiné and regionality / Christoph Eger -- Avar goldsmiths' work from the perspective of cultural history / Csanád Bálint -- Byzantium and the Slavs in the light of Goldsmiths' production / Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski -- Byzantine jewellery of the Hungarian conquest period : a view from the Balkans / Ádám Bollók -- Byzantine jewellery : the evidence from Byzantine legal documents / Maria G. Parani -- Elegance over the borders : the evidence of middle Byzantine earrings / Jenny Albani -- Temple pendants in medieval Rus : how were they worn? / Natalija Ristovska -- Jewellery from Princely Kiev and Byzantine influence / Ljudmila Pekarska -- A 13th-century jewellery hoard from Thessalonica : a genuine hoard or an art dealer's compilation? / Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie -- Some aspects of the finger-rings in the Chalcis treasure at the British Museum / Bet Mcleod.

ISBN

• 9780861591787 (pbk.)
• 086159178X (pbk.)

LCCN

2009292763

OCLC

• ocn320801829
• 320801829
• SCSB-5510091

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries