Dumbarton Oaks papers
Subtitle: Number fifty-eight, 2004
By: [general editor, Alice-Mary Talbot]
Series: Dumbarton Oaks papers -- no. 58 (2004); Dumbarton Oaks papers -- no. 58
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Civilization; Congresses; Byzantine antiquities; Byzantine Art; History; Medieval Art
Other titles: Realities in the arts of the medieval Mediterranean, 800-1500.
Notes: Includes four unsolicited articles and also selected papers presented at the April 26-28, 2002 symposium held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., on the theme: "Realities in the arts of the medieval Mediterranean, 800-1500", under the direction of Anthony Cutler and Angeliki Laiou, as well as fieldwork reports.

"This issue of Dumbarton Oaks papers is dedicated to the memory of Glenn Ruby (1938-2004) ..."-- P. [v].

Includes bibliographical references.

Nine contributions in English, 3 in French, and 1 in German.
Table of contents: title: A day and ten months in the life of a lonely bachelor: the other Byzantium in Miracula S. Artemii 18 and 22 / Stephanos Efthymiades; title: A corpus of early Medieval Armenian inscriptions / Timothy Greenwood; title: Valens and the monks: cudgeling and conscription as a means of social control / Noel Lenski; title: Gloses prophétiques sur l'évangile: à propos de quelques manuscrits arméniens enluminés en Cilicie dans les années 1260 / Ioanna Rapti.; title: Realities in the Arts of the Medieval Mediterranean, 800-1500: Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, 26-28 April 2002. Realities, realia, and realism: an introduction to the symposium / Anthony Cutler; title: The Mediterranean around 800: on the brink of the second trade cycle / Chris Wickham; title: The elephant and the ark: cultural and material interchange across the Mediterranean in the eighth and ninth centuries / Leslie Brubaker; title: Silk economies and cross-cultural artistic interaction: Byzantium, the Muslim world, and the Christian west / David Jacoby; title: Réalitiés des échanges en Méditerranée orientale du XIIe au XVIIIe siècles: l'apport de la céramique / Véronique François; title: Diplomatische Geschenke zwischen Byzanz und dem Western ca. 800-1200: eine Analyse der Texte mit Quellenanhang / Peter Schreiner; title: Eastern objects and western desires: relics and reliquaries between Byzantium and the West / Holger A. Klein; title: The figural arts in crusader Syria and Palestine, 1187-1291: some new realities / Jaroslav Folda; title: Innovations gothiques dans l'orfèvrerie byzantine sous les Paléologues / Jannic Durand; title: Fieldwork reports. The Amorium project: excavation and research in 2001 / C.S. Lightfoot, Y. Arbel, B. Böhlendorf-Arslan, J.A. Roberts, and J. Witte-Orr; title: The excavation in the Monastery of Apa Shenute (Dayr Anba Shinuda) at Suhag, with an appendix on documentary photography at the monasteries of Anba Shinuda and Anba Bishoi, Suhag, by Elizabeth S. Bolman; title: The sacred screen: origins, development, and diffusion: Dumbarton Oaks Symposium 2003.