Overview

In this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries. The first part uncovers salient aspects of Byzantine artistic production and its aesthetic reception, while the second puts a spotlight on particular ways of expressing admiration and of interpreting of the visual.

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Author:   Foteini Spingou (University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 8.60cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   3.370kg
ISBN:  

9781108483056

ISBN 10:   1108483054
Pages:   1718
Publication Date:   21 April 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I. Art, Aesthetics and Literature:; 1. Notions of the image in later Byzantium Charles Barber, David Jenkins, Nathan Leidholm, Dimiter Angelov, Martin Hinterberger and Thomas A. Carlson; 2. Artists and patrons Foteini Spingou, Ivan Drpic, Theocharis Tsampouras, Alice-Mary Talbot, Alexander Alexakis and Annemarie Weyl Carr; 3. Eikon and iconography in later Byzantium Foteini Spingou, Nikos Zagklas, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Mircea Dulus, Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis, Maria Mavroudi, Nikos Zagklas, Alicia Walker, Michael Jeffreys and Elizabeth Jeffreys; 4. Materials Foteini Spingou, Eric Cullhed, Marina Bazzani, with a note on the author in collaboration with Andreas Rhoby, Shannon Steiner, Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Mchael Grunbart; 5. Seeing spaces: responses to built environment Foteini Spingou, Efthymios Rizos, Alex J. Novikoff, George P. Majeska, Thomas A. Carlson, Cecilia Palombo, Lee Mordechai, Scott Ashley, Robert Romanchuk, Brad Hostetler, Matthew W. Herrington, Christopher Timm, Sarah Simmons, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Mchael Grunbart, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Alicia Walker, M. Michele Mulchahey, Divna Manolova and Paul Magdalino; 6. Art and devotion Foteini Spingou, Alexander Riehle, Alice-Mary Talbot, Ida Toth, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Luisa Andriollo, Michael Featherstone, Reinhart Ceulemans and Brad Hostetler; 7. Memory and art Foteini Spingou, Martin Hinterberger, Florin Leonte, Alice-Mary Talbot, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Andreas Rhoby and John Lansdowne; 8. Beauty Foteini Spingou, Ioannis Polemis, Alexander Alexakis, Dimiter Angelov, Mircea Dulus, Marina Bazzani, Daphne Penna, Vasileios Marinis, Elizabeth Jeffreys, K. Stewart, Peter Van Deun, Michael Jeffreys, Maria Mavroudi, Alexander Riehle and Christina Maranci; Part II. Literature, Art and Aesthetics:; 9. Counting down: inventories Maria Parani, Ludovic Bender, Alice-Mary Talbot and Foteini Spingou; 10. Describing, experiencing, narrating: the use of ekphrasis (ca. 1081-1330s) Ingela Nilsson, Eric Cullhed, Baukje van den Berg, Charis Messis, Konstantinos Chryssogelos, Maria Tomadaki, Przemyslaw Marciniak and Mircea Dulus; 11. Speaking: Ethopoiiae Elizabeth Jeffreys, Katarzyna Warcaba, Michael Jeffreys, Luisa Andriollo and Nikos Zagklas; 12. Instructing and dedicating: epigrams on works of art Foteini Spingou, Nikos Zagklas, Luisa Andriollo, Nikos Zagklas, L. Safran, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Andreas Rhoby, Annemarie Weyl Carr and Alice-Mary Talbot; 13. Reading: book epigrams Kristoffel Demoen, Rachele Ricceri, Renaat Meesters, Maria Tomadaki and Annemarie Weyl Carr; 14. Marking: later Byzantine epigraphic culture Ida Toth, Peter Van Deun, Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Jeremy Johns, Linda Safran, Lisa Mahoney, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Irena Spadijer and Ekaterine Gedevanishvili; 15. Lamenting: tomb epigrams and epitaphs Foteini Spingou, Ilias Taxidis and Andreas Rhoby.

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Foteini Spingou is a Research Associate in Byzantine Intellectual/Cultural History at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of a monograph on twelfth-century Byzantine poetry (forthcoming) and has penned numerous articles on collections, cultural memory, reciprocity and patronage, manuscripts, and mathematics in the medieval Europe.

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