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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Using epigrammatic poetry as a framework, investigates the interplay between art and religious devotion in the later Byzantine period. |
Contents |
Cover; Half-title ; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication ; Table of contents ; List of illustrations ; List of color plates ; Acknowledgments ; Note to the reader ; List of abbreviations ; Introduction ; I. ; II. ; III. ; 1 From composition to performance: epigrams in context. |
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Why verse? Epigrams and the power of logos Verses on the page: epigrams in the manuscript record ; Patrons, poets, artists ; Epigrams and the viewer/reader ; 2 The patron's ''I'' ; Between praise and prayer: the patron in the dedicatory epigram ; The patron says ''I'' |
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Performed identities, crafted selves 3 Kosmos ; What is kosmos? ; Kosmos, matter, and the sacred ; Cladding/clothing ; 4 Golden words ; Script as ornament ; Verses in space ; Labyrinths and crosses: figured epigrams ; Logikos kosmos ; 5 Devotional gifts. |
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Toward a typology of devotional gifts Gifts, prayers, and memory ; Paradoxical exchange ; 6 The erotics of devotion ; Of gifts and love ; Defining pothos ; Personal patronage and the rhetoric of pothos ; 7 Image of the beloved ; Affective images. |
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Adornment, desire, and the relational self Epithets ; Pothos portrayed ; Conclusion ; Bibliography. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Arts and society -- Byzantine Empire.
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Arts and society. |
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Byzantine Empire. |
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Arts and religion -- Byzantine Empire.
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Arts and religion. |
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Identity (Psychology) in art.
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Epigrams, Byzantine.
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Identity (Psychology) in art. |
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Epigrams, Byzantine. |
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ART -- General. |
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Kunst. |
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Frömmigkeit. |
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Epigramm. |
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Bild. |
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Inschrift. |
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Byzantinisches Reich. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Drpić, Ivan. Epigram, art, and devotion in later Byzantium. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107151512 1107151511 (DLC) 2016001238 (OCoLC)935494982 |
ISBN |
9781316657843 (electronic book) |
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1316657841 (electronic book) |
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9781316584989 (electronic book) |
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1316584984 (electronic book) |
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9781316656440 |
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1316656446 |
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1316657493 |
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9781316657492 |
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9781107151512 |
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1107151511 |
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1316655741 |
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9781316606094 (paperback) |
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