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Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101108483054

ISBN-139781108483056

eBay Product ID (ePID)17050377231

Product Key Features

Number of Pages500 Pages

LanguageEng,Ara,Lat,Gre

Publication NameThe Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081-C. 1330)

SubjectGeneral, Europe / General

Publication Year2022

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, History

AuthorFoteini Spingou

SeriesSources for Byzantine Art History Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height3.4 in

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width6.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-023796

Reviews'... an impressive amount of work for any single scholar, even more so for someone in their early career, and therefore Spingou deserves to be praised. Scholars and students active in many fields have gained a useful sourcebook both to prepare classes and gather ideas in order to push forward the research on medieval visual culture.' Ugo Mondini, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Volume NumberVolume 3

Dewey Decimal709.0214

Original LanguageARA,LAT,GRE

Table Of ContentPart I. Art, Aesthetics and Literature:; 1. Notions of the image in later Byzantium Charles Barber, David Jenkins, Nathan Leidholm, Dimiter Angelov, Martin Hinterberger and Thomas A. Carlson; 2. Artists and patrons Foteini Spingou, Ivan Drpic, Theocharis Tsampouras, Alice-Mary Talbot, Alexander Alexakis and Annemarie Weyl Carr; 3. Eikon and iconography in later Byzantium Foteini Spingou, Nikos Zagklas, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Mircea Dulus, Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis, Maria Mavroudi, Nikos Zagklas, Alicia Walker, Michael Jeffreys and Elizabeth Jeffreys; 4. Materials Foteini Spingou, Eric Cullhed, Marina Bazzani, with a note on the author in collaboration with Andreas Rhoby, Shannon Steiner, Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Mchael Grünbart; 5. Seeing spaces: responses to built environment Foteini Spingou, Efthymios Rizos, Alex J. Novikoff, George P. Majeska, Thomas A. Carlson, Cecilia Palombo, Lee Mordechai, Scott Ashley, Robert Romanchuk, Brad Hostetler, Matthew W. Herrington, Christopher Timm, Sarah Simmons, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Mchael Grünbart, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Alicia Walker, M. Michèle Mulchahey, Divna Manolova and Paul Magdalino; 6. Art and devotion Foteini Spingou, Alexander Riehle, Alice-Mary Talbot, Ida Toth, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Luisa Andriollo, Michael Featherstone, Reinhart Ceulemans and Brad Hostetler; 7. Memory and art Foteini Spingou, Martin Hinterberger, Florin Leonte, Alice-Mary Talbot, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Andreas Rhoby and John Lansdowne; 8. Beauty Foteini Spingou, Ioannis Polemis, Alexander Alexakis, Dimiter Angelov, Mircea Dulus, Marina Bazzani, Daphne Penna, Vasileios Marinis, Elizabeth Jeffreys, K. Stewart, Peter Van Deun, Michael Jeffreys, Maria Mavroudi, Alexander Riehle and Christina Maranci; Part II. Literature, Art and Aesthetics:; 9. Counting down: inventories Maria Parani, Ludovic Bender, Alice-Mary Talbot and Foteini Spingou; 10. Describing, experiencing, narrating: the use of ekphrasis (ca. 1081-1330s) Ingela Nilsson, Eric Cullhed, Baukje van den Berg, Charis Messis, Konstantinos Chryssogelos, Maria Tomadaki, Przemyslaw Marciniak and Mircea Dulu; 11. Speaking: Ethopoiiae Elizabeth Jeffreys, Katarzyna Warcaba, Michael Jeffreys, Luisa Andriollo and Nikos Zagklas; 12. Instructing and dedicating: epigrams on works of art Foteini Spingou, Nikos Zagklas, Luisa Andriollo, Nikos Zagklas, L. Safran, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Andreas Rhoby, Annemarie Weyl Carr and Alice-Mary Talbot; 13. Reading: book epigrams Kristoffel Demoen, Rachele Ricceri, Renaat Meesters, Maria Tomadaki and Annemarie Weyl Carr; 14. Marking: later Byzantine epigraphic culture Ida Toth, Peter Van Deun, Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Jeremy Johns, Linda Safran, Lisa Mahoney, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Irena Spadijer and Ekaterine Gedevanishvili; 15. Lamenting: tomb epigrams and epitaphs Foteini Spingou, Ilias Taxidis and Andreas Rhoby.

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisIn this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries. The first part uncovers salient aspects of Byzantine artistic production and its aesthetic reception, while the second puts a spotlight on particular ways of expressing admiration and of interpreting of the visual., Presents 150 original medieval sources for Byzantine visual culture, accompanied by commentaries from over fifty leading scholars. An essential handbook for the study of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, for both students and advanced researchers of the pre-modern world.

LC Classification NumberN6250