Icon and Word
Subtitle: The Power of Images in Byzantium
Contributors: Antony Eastmond (Editor); Liz James (Editor); Robin Cormack (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780754635499
Subjects: Byzantine art; Christianity; Religious subjects depicted in art; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Subjects & Themes - Religious; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Byzantine Empire; Techniques - Painting; Art, Byzantine; Icons, Byzantine
First sentence: Professor Sarah Iles Johnston introduced a session entitled 'The Discourse of Idolatry' at the 2001 meetings of the American Academy of Religion in Denver, Colorado; she then re-presented herself as Professor Froma Zeitlin, the eminent Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Princeton University.