Images of the Byzantine world
Subtitle: visions, messages, and meanings : studies presented to Leslie Brubaker
By: [edited by] Angeliki Lymberopoulou
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781409407768
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Leslie Brubaker : biography and published works / Kalliroe Linardou; title: Preface / Angeliki Lymberopoulou; title: "Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth" : touch and the meaning of Byzantine art / Liz James; title: Memories of buildings? : messages in late Antique architectural representations / Maria Cristina Carile; title: "And the mother did not spare the baby in her breast," or, Searching for meaning in tecnoctonia and tecnophagy / Dionysios Stathakopoulos; title: The anxiety of images : meanings and material objects / Averil Cameron; title: Messages, meanings, and metamorphoses : the icon of the Transfiguration of Zarzma / Antony Eastmond; title: Messages in context : the reading of sermons in Byzantine churches and monasteries / Mary B. Cunningham; title: "The teaching of the ladder" : the message of the heavenly ladder image in Sinai ms. gr. 417 / Kathleen Corrigan and Nancy P. Ševčenko; title: Visions and meanings : personifications in Octateuch cycles / Maja Kominko; title: "Signs and symbols of your always victorious reign" : the political ideology and meaning of falconry in Byzantium / Henry Maguire; title: Messages in the landscape : searching for Gregory Nazianzenos in Cappadocia (with two excursions to the Çanli Kilise) / Robert Ousterhout; title: New visions of old meanings : Paris gr. 135 and some anti-Latin visual implications / Kalliroe Linardou; title: The Noli Me Tangere icon at the British Museum : vision, message, and reality / Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Lynne Harisson, and Janet   Ambers; title: Byzantine "visions" of the Ottoman Empire : theories of Ottoman legitimacy by Byzantine scholars after the fall of Constantinople / Konstantinos Moustakas; title: Conclusions / Chris Wickham.