Overview

In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium aims to promote the field of Byzantine epigraphy as a whole, and topics and subjects covered include: Byzantine attitudes towards the inscribed word, the questions of continuity and transformation, the context and function of epigraphic evidence, the levels of formality and authority, the material aspect of writing, and the verbal, visual and symbolic meaning of inscribed texts. The collection is intended as a valuable scholarly resource presenting and examining a substantial quantity of diverse epigraphic material, and outlining the chronological development of epigraphic habits, and of individual epigraphic genres in Byzantium. The contributors also discuss the methodological questions of collecting, presenting and interpreting the most representative Byzantine inscriptional material, and addressing epigraphic material to make it relevant to a wider scholarly community.

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Author:   Marc Lauxtermann ,  Ida Toth
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.750kg
ISBN:  

9781032174648

ISBN 10:   1032174641
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   30 September 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Opening Address; Part 1. After Late Antiquity: Traditions and Transitions; 1. The process of ‘Byzantinization’ in Late Antique epigraphy; 2. Village churches and donors at the end of Antiquity; 3. Reading, viewing and inscribing faith: Christian epigraphy in the early Umayyad Levant; 4. The epigraphy of the Abgar Story: Traditions and transitions; Part 2. Legibility and Readability; 5. Inscriptions and the Byzantine beholder: The perception of script; 6. Non-exposed funerary inscriptions and the cult of the cross between Italy and Byzantium, 6th–9th c; Part 3. Church and State; 7. The house of inscriptions: The epigraphic world of the middle Byzantine church; 8. State, strategy, and ideology in monumental imperial inscriptions; 9. Inscriptions of church and state officials on Byzantine lead seals; Part 4. Formal and Informal Inscriptions in Athens; 10. The (in)formality of the inscribed word at the Parthenon: Legibility, script, content; 11. Byzantine funerary inscriptions on the Hephaisteion (Church of St George) in the Athenian Agora; Part 5. Objects, Texts and Images; 12. Towards a typology for the placement of names on works of art; 13. Word of image: Textual frames of early Byzantine icons; 14. Short texts on small objects: The poetics of the Byzantine enkolpion; Part 6. Case Studies; 15. A Byzantine verse inscription from Konya; 16. The church of Sts Theodoroi (formerly St Kournatos) in Myrtia, Laconia, and its inscriptions; 17. A Lombard epigram in Greek

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Marc D. Lauxtermann, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, Exeter College, University of Oxford Ida Toth, University Research Lecturer and Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

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