Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium, Paperback - Ivan (University of Washington) Drpic

Explores the nexus of art, personal piety, and self-representation in the last centuries of Byzantium, focusing upon the evidence of verse inscript...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Erin A. CechIllustration(s): 15 line drawings, 9 tablesNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Erin A. CechIllustration(s): 15 line drawings, 9 tablesNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2...

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Publisher: University of Washington PressAuthor(s): Alice TilcheIllustration(s): 14 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 256Collection: G...

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Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church HistoryAn overlooked aspect of the iconography of the A...

Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological the...

Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book offers a new approach to how we understand the way that ancient and...

This collection restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and s...

This is the first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine Manasses. It argues that, ...

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Description"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological compon...

Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological the...

For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States. This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in peopl...

Uses an interdisciplinary approach combining new archaeological evidence with archival material to reconstruct the lives of rural communities in th...

Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, ...

In the Spirit of the Ancestors celebrates the vitality of contemporary Pacific Northwest Coast art by showcasing a selection of objects from the Bu...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Amy HollywoodIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 200Collection: TRIOSPublication date...

Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy. 'The...

Since the original publication of this title, the twelfth-century Calabrian Abbot Joachim of Fiore has been accorded an increasingly central positi...

An annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 CE) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by...

Examining Byzantine architecture, Ousterhout identifies the problems commonly encountered in the process of design and construction.Publisher: Univ...

Dimitris Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historiographic models and divergences elaborated by Greek...

A portrait of history's first complex Christian society as seen through the lens of Christian philanthropy and gift giving As the Roman Empire brok...

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A New York City ethnography that explores men's unique approaches to Catholic devotion Every Saturday, and sometimes on weekday evenings, a group o...

A pioneering exploration of the performance of hymns in Byzantium over a period of almost four centuries, investigating how hymnody wove together f...

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