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Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World

Author : Eva R. Hoffman

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 444 pages

File Size : 39,76 MB

Release : 2009-02-09

Category : Art

ISBN : 1405182075

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Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World is a much-needed teaching anthology that rethinks and broadens the scope of the stale and limiting classifications used for Early Christian-Byzantine visual arts. A comprehensive anthology offering a new approach to the visual arts classified as Early Christian-Byzantine Comprised of essays from experts in the field that integrate the newer, historiographical research into 'the canon' of established scholarship Exposes the historical, geographical and cultural continuities and interactions in the visual arts of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean world Covers an extensive range of topics, including the effect that converging cultures in late antiquity had on art, the cultural identities that can be observed by looking at difference of tradition in visual art, and the variance of illuminations in holy books



The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity

Author : Averil Cameron

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 315 pages

File Size : 23,12 MB

Release : 2015-04-29

Category : History

ISBN : 1136673067

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Book Description

This book provides both a detailed introduction to the vivid and exciting period of `late antiquity' and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire.



Cultic Graffiti in the Late Antique Mediterranean and Beyond

Author : Antonio E. Felle

Publisher :

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 37,75 MB

Release : 2021-05-29

Category : Graffiti

ISBN : 9782503593111

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A volume that collects and discusses the graffiti, scratched or drawn on religious shrines in the first centuries of Christianity and Islam, by ordinary men and women, seeking the help of their God and their favoured saints.



The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity

Author : Averil Cameron

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 33,78 MB

Release : 2002-09-11

Category : History

ISBN : 1134980817

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Book Description

This book provides both a detailed introduction to the vivid and exciting period of `late antiquity' and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire.



Early Medieval Art

Author : Lawrence Nees

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 17,85 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780192842435

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Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.



Trends and Turning Points

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 36,11 MB

Release : 2019-05-15

Category : History

ISBN : 9004395741

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Trends 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. Contributions are divided into four complementary strands, Scholarly Constructions, Literary Trends, Constructing Politics, and Turning Points in Religious Landscapes. Each strand cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries and periodisation, placing historical, archaeological, literary, and architectural concerns in discourse, whilst drawing on examples from the full range of the medieval Roman past. While its individual articles offer numerous important insights, together the volume collectively rethinks fundamental assumptions about how late antique and Byzantine studies has and continues to be discursively constructed. Contributors are: David Barritt, Laura Borghetti, Nikolas Churik, Elif Demirtiken, Alasdair C. Grant, Stephen Humphreys, Mirela Ivanova, Hugh Jeffery, Valeria Flavia Lovato, Francesco Lovino, Kosuke Nakada, Jonas Nilsson, Theresia Raum, Maria Rukavichnikova, and Milan Vukašinović.



Mosaics in the Medieval World

Author : Liz James

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1748 pages

File Size : 25,28 MB

Release : 2017-10-05

Category : Art

ISBN : 1108508596

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In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide range of issues, including style and iconography, technique and material, and function and patronage, she examines mosaics within their historical context. She asks why the mosaic was such a popular medium and considers how mosaics work as historical 'documents' that tell us about attitudes and beliefs in the medieval world. The book is divided into two part. Part I explores the technical aspects of mosaics, including glass production, labour and materials, and costs. In Part II, James provides a chronological history of mosaics, charting the low and high points of mosaic art up until its abrupt end in the late middle ages. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will serve as an essential resource for scholars and students of medieval mosaics.



Classics in Progress

Author : T. P. Wiseman

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 476 pages

File Size : 24,73 MB

Release : 2006-01-26

Category : History

ISBN : 9780197263235

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The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity. This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western history.



Cities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity

Author : Mark Humphries

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 118 pages

File Size : 19,32 MB

Release : 2019-11-04

Category : History

ISBN : 9004422617

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The last half century has seen an explosion in the study of late antiquity, which has characterised the period between the third and seventh centuries not as one of catastrophic collapse and ‘decline and fall’, but rather as one of dynamic and positive transformation. Yet research on cities in this period has provoked challenges to this positive picture of late antiquity. This study surveys the nature of this debate, examining problems associated with the sources historians use to examine late antique urbanism, and the discourses and methodological approaches they have constructed from them. It aims to set out the difficulties and opportunities presented by the study of cities in late antiquity in terms of transformations of politics, the economy, and religion, and to show that this period witnessed very real upheaval and dislocation alongside continuity and innovation in cities around the Mediterranean.



Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art

Author : Benjamin Anderson

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 213 pages

File Size : 29,73 MB

Release : 2017-02-28

Category : Art

ISBN : 0300219164

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In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states--the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visual continuity, though local meanings of these images varied greatly. Benjamin Anderson uses thrones, tables, mantles, frescoes, and manuscripts to show how cosmological motifs informed relationships between individuals, especially the ruling elite, and communities, demonstrating how domestic and global politics informed the production and reception of these depictions. The first book to consider such imagery across the dramatically diverse cultures of Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic Middle East, Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art illuminates the distinctions between the cosmological art of these three cultural spheres, and reasserts the centrality of astronomical imagery to the study of art history.