Icon and word
Subtitle: the power of images in Byzantium : studies presented to Robin Cormack
By: edited by Antony Eastmond and Liz James
Contributors: Eastmond, Antony, 1966-; James, Liz; Cormack, Robin
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Icons, Byzantine; Art, Byzantine
Other titles: Icon & word
Notes: Essays by doctoral students of Robin Cormack

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-296) and index
Table of contents: title: Icon, idol, totem and fetish / Annabel Wharton; title: When all that is gold does not glitter: on the strange history of looking at Byzantine art / Rico Franses; title: Icon and portrait in the trial of Symeon the new theologian / Charles Barber; title: The power of inscriptions and the trouble with texts / Karen Boston; title: Art and lies: text, image, and imagination in the medieval world / Liz James; title: Between icon and idol: the uncertainty of imperial images / Antony Eastmond; title: The icon is dead, long live the icon: the holy image in the Renaissance / Robert Maniura; title: Picturing new Jerusalem / John Wilkinson; title: Bleeding icons / Maria Vassilaki; title: Images of the mother of God in early medieval Rome / John Osborne; title: Iconic images of children in the Church of St Demetrios, Thessaloniki / Cecily Hennessy; title: The 'statuesque hodegetria' and the limitations of the sculptured icon / John Hanson; title: The migrating image: uses and abuses of Byzantine icons in western Europe / Barbara Zeitler; title: For the salvation of a woman's soul: an icon of St Michael described within a medieval Coptic context / Lucy-Anne Hunt; title: Archimedes into icon: forging an image of Byzantium / John Lowden; title: The purple thread of the flesh: the theological connotations of a narrative iconographic element in Byzantine images of the annunciation / Maria Evangelatou