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Author:   John A. Cotsonis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.485kg
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9781032336718

ISBN 10:   1032336714
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   13 June 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1: SAINTS’ IMAGES ON SEALS; 1. Saints & Cult Centers: A Geographic & Administrative Perspective in Light of Byzantine Lead Seals; 2. An Eleventh-Century Seal with a Representation of Patriarch Antony II Kauleas; 3. The Contribution of Byzantine Lead Seals to the Study of the Cult of the Saints (Sixth-Twelfth Century); 4. ’What Shall We Call You, O Holy Ones?’ (Martyrikon Automelon, Plagal 4th): Images of Saints and Their Invocations on Byzantine Lead Seals as Means of Investigating Personal Piety (6th-12th Centuries); 5. Choired Saints on Byzantine Lead Seals & Their Significance (Sixth-Twelfth Centuries): A Preliminary Report; 6. An Image of Saint Nicholas with the ‘Tongues of Fire’ on a Byzantine Lead Seal; Part 2: SPHRAGISTIC IMAGERY AND PERSONAL PIETY; 7. Onomastics, Gender, Office and Images on Byzantine Lead Seals: A Means of Investigating Personal Piety; 8. Religious Figural Images on Byzantine Lead Seals as a Reflection of Visual Piety during the Iconoclastic Controversy

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John A. Cotsonis is the Director of the Archbishop Iakovos Library at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, a Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and a Byzantine art historian specializing in the iconography of Byzantine lead seals. He is the author of Byzantine Figural Processional Crosses which is regarded as the standard work on the subject.

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