| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 520 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World ; volume 2
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Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; volume 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Part 1; Introduction; Chapter 1; The Use and Function of Illustrated Books in Byzantine Society; Jean-Michel Spieser; Chapter 2; The Study of Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts since Kurt Weitzmann: Art Historical Methods and Approaches; Ioli Kalavrezou and Courtney Tomaselli; Chapter 3; Codicology and Palaeography; Sofia Kotzabassi; Part 2; Secular Manuscripts; Chapter 4; Scientific, Medical and Technical Manuscripts; Stavros Lazaris; Chapter 5; Historical Writings; Vasiliki Tsamakda; Chapter 6. |
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Homeric EpicsMaria Laura Tomea Gavazzoli; Romances and Novels; Chapter 7; Barlaam and Ioasaph; Marina Toumpouri; Chapter 8; The Alexander Romance; Nicolette S. Trahoulia; Chapter 9; The Vatican Epithalamion; Cecily Hennessy; Part 3; Religious Manuscripts; Chapter 10; The Complete Bible; Elisabeth Yota; The Old Testament; Chapter 11; The Book of Genesis; Markos Giannoulis; Chapter 12; The Joshua Roll; Vasiliki Tsamakda; Chapter 13; The Octateuch; Mika Takiguchi; Chapter 14; The Vatican Book of Kings (*Vat. gr. 333); Ioli Kalavrezou; Chapter 15; The Book of Job; Justine M. Andrews; Chapter 16. |
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The Prophet BookMika Takiguchi; The New Testament; Chapter 17; New Testament Imagery; Annemarie Weyl Carr; Chapter 18; Illustrated Byzantine Gospel Books; Kathleen Maxwell; Liturgical Books, Service Books; Chapter 19; The Lectionary; Elisabeth Yota; Chapter 20; Psalters and Books of Hours (Horologia); Georgi R. Parpulov; Chapter 21; Liturgical Scrolls; Vasileios Marinis; Chapter 22; Synaxaria and Menologia; Nancy P. Ševčenko; Chapter 23; The Akathistos Hymn; Elina Dobrynina; Homilies; Chapter 24; The Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus*; Leslie Brubaker; Chapter 25. |
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The Homilies of John ChrysostomVasiliki Tsamakda; Chapter 26; The Homilies of Iakovos of the Kokkinobaphou Monastery; Kallirroe Linardou; Various Theological Texts; Chapter 27; The Christian Topography of Kosmas Indikopleustes; Maja Kominko; Chapter 28; The Heavenly Ladder; Maria Evangelatou; Chapter 29; Sacra Parallela (*Par. gr. 923); Maria Evangelatou; Chapter 30; The Dogmatic Panoply; Georgi R. Parpulov; General Bibliography; General Index; Index of Manuscripts; Illustrations. |
| Summary |
This volume offers an overview of Byzantine manuscript illustration, a central branch of Byzantine art and culture. Just like written texts, illustrations bear witness to Byzantine material culture, imperial ideology and religious beliefs, as well as to the development and spread of Byzantine art. In this sense illustrated books reflect the society that produced and used them. Being portable, they could serve as diplomatic gifts or could be acquired by foreigners. In such cases they became "emissaries" of Byzantine art and culture in Western Europe and the Arabic world. The volume provides for the first time a comprehensive overview of the material, divided by text categories, including both secular and religious manuscripts, and analyses which texts were illustrated in Byzantium, and how. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Tsamakda, Vasiliki, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Companion to Byzantine illustrated manuscripts. Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004343184 (DLC) 2017014858 |
| ISBN |
9789004346239 (electronic book) |
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9004346236 (electronic book) |
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9789004343184 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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