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Author: Antony Eastmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-20
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107092418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the visual qualities of inscriptions from a cross-cultural perspective focusing on the period from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
Author: Antony Eastmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-20
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1316241041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInscriptions convey meaning not just by their contents but also by other means, such as choice of script, location, scale, spatial organisation, letterform, legibility and clarity. The essays in this book consider these visual qualities of inscriptions, ranging across the Mediterranean and the Near East from Spain to Iran and beyond, including Norman Sicily, Islamic North Africa, Byzantium, medieval Italy, Georgia and Armenia. While most essays focus on Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, they also look back at Achaemenid Iran and forward to Mughal India. Topics discussed include real and pseudo-writing, multilingual inscriptions, graffiti, writing disguised as images and images disguised as words. From public texts set up on mountainsides or on church and madrasa walls to intimate craftsmen's signatures, barely visible on the undersides of precious objects, the inscriptions discussed in this volume reveal their meanings as textual and visual devices.
Author: Ildar Garipzanov
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-04-26
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 0192546627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGraphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as the sign of the cross, christograms, monograms, and other such devices, are examined against the backdrop of the cultural, religious, and socio-political transition from the late Graeco-Roman world to that of medieval Europe. This monograph is a synthetic study of graphic visual evidence from a wide range of material media that have rarely been studied collectively, including various mass-produced items and unique objects of art, architectural monuments and epigraphic inscriptions, as well as manuscripts and charters. This study promises to provide a timely reference tool for historians, art historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, manuscript scholars, and numismatists.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9004395741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful.
Author: Tobias Frese
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-01-14
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 3110629151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirteen papers on different subjects, focussing on writings and inscriptions in medieval art, explore the faculty of writing to create and determine spaces and to generate the sacred by the display of holy scripture. The subjects range from book illumination over wall painting, mosaics, sculpture, and church interiors to inscriptions on portals and façades.
Author: Emilie M. van Opstall
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-10
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9004369007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity offers a far-reaching account of liminal spaces within Christian and pagan sanctuaries, with interdisciplinary and diachronic perspectives on the experience of those who crossed from the worldly to the divine, both physically and symbolically.
Author: Anna M. Sitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0197666434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2017, under the title: The writing on the wall: inscriptions and memory in the temples of late antique Greece and Asia Minor.
Author: Sean V. Leatherbury
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-26
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1000023338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300–800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces of worship, and explores how they functioned both textually and visually. These texts not only recorded the names and prayers of the faithful, but were powerful verbal and visual statements of cultural values and religious beliefs, conveying meaning through their words as well as through their appearances. In fact, the two were intimately connected. All of these texts – Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and pagan – acted visually, embracing their own materiality as mosaic, paint, or carved stone. Colourful and artfully arranged, the inscriptions framed human relationships with the divine, encouraged responses from readers, and made prayers material. In the first in-depth examination of the inscriptions as words and as images, the author reimagines the range of aesthetic, cultural, and religious experiences that were possible in spaces of worship. Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity is essential reading for those interested in Roman, late antique, and Byzantine material and visual culture, inscriptions and other texts, and religious life in the ancient Mediterranean.
Author: Ralph W. Mathisen
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780472112463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of Latin sources that shed light on the changing world of Late Antiquity throughout Western Europe
Author: Alex Mullen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-12-28
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 019888897X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities and cultures, as well as to life itself, yet the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman west is remarkably understudied. A deeper understanding of this important issue is crucial to any reconstruction of the broader story of linguistic continuity and change in Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as to the history of the communities who wrote, read, and spoke Latin and other languages. Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces offers the first comprehensive modern study of the main developments, key features and debates of the later-Roman and post-imperial linguistic environment, focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Gaul, the Germanies, Britain and Ireland. The chapters collected in this volume help us to understand better the embeddedness, or not, of Latin, at different social levels and across provinces, to consider (socio)linguistic variegation, bi-/multi-lingualism, and attitudes towards languages, and to confront the complex role of language in the communities, identities, and cultures of the later- and post-imperial Roman western world. This volume will be accompanied by two further volumes from the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project: Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West and Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West.
