Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus: 6 (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, Series Number 6) - Image 1

£44.00

Cambridge University Press Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus: 6 (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, Series Number 6)

Name: Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus: 6 (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, Series Number 6)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Price: 44.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

177 Halftones, unspecified

History

Price History & Forecast

Last 32 days • 32 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 32 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £44 (32 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £44 - £44

Price levels: 1 different prices over 32 days

Description

The Byzantines used imagery to communicate a wide range of issues. In the context of Iconoclasm - the debate about the legitimacy of religious art conducted between c. AD 730 and 843 - Byzantine authors themselves claimed that visual images could express certain ideas better than words. 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. Its focus is on a deluxe manuscript commissioned around 880, a copy of the fourth-century sermons of the Cappadocian church father Gregory of Nazianzus which presented to the Emperor Basil I, founder of the Macedonian dynasty, by one of the greatest scholars Byzantium ever produced, the patriarch Photios. The manuscript was lavishly decorated with gilded initials, elaborate headpieces and a full-page miniature before each of Gregory's sermons. Forty-six of these, including over 200 distinct scenes, survive. Fewer than half however were directly inspired by the homily that they accompany. Instead most function as commentaries on the ninth-century court and carefully deconstructed both provide us with information not available from preserved written sources and perhaps more important show us how visual images communicate differently from words.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cambridge University Press
Model: 177 Halftones, unspecified
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0521101816
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > History & Criticism > History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 March 2009
Listed Since: 08 December 2008

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cambridge University Press Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus: 6 (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, Series Number 6)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm: Patrons, Politics and Saints

Routledge - Images of the Byzantine World Studies

Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680–850: A History

Iconophilia: Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c.680 - 880: 27 (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies)

Performing the Gospels in Byzantium: Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy

Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm: Patrons, Politics and Saints

Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive?: Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996 (Publications ... for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies)

Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive?: Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996 (Publications ... for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies)

Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons [New in Paper] (Bollingen Series)

Iconophilia: Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c.680 - 880: 27 (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies)

Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture, c.500–900 (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture)

Experiencing the Last Judgement: The Deconstruction of a Byzantine Image Type (Studies in Byzantine Cultural History)

Worlds of Byzantium: Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East

Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing

Byzantine Materiality: 9 (Sense, Matter, and Medium, 9)

The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints And Their Images In Byzantium

The Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals II: Studies on Images of the Saints and on Personal Piety: 1086 (Variorum Collected Studies)

Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond

History as Literature in Byzantium: Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007 (Publications ... for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies)

Sources for Byzantine Art History: Volume 3, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081–c.1350)

The Sacred Architecture of Byzantium: Art, Liturgy and Symbolism in Early Christian Churches

Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium

Byzantium: Church, Society, and Civilization Seen through Contemporary Eyes