| Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus Contributor(s): Brubaker, Leslie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521101816 ISBN-13: 9780521101813 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $64.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the aftermath of Iconoclasm. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Art | Techniques - Calligraphy - Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Dewey: 745.674 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.98 lbs) 572 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book centers on the copy of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus produced in Constantinople around 880 for the emperor Basil I as a gift from the patriarch Photios. The manuscript includes forty-six full page miniatures, most of which do not directly illustrate the text they accompany, but instead provide a visual commentary. Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such communication worked, and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in ninth-century Byzantium. |