| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 237 pages) : color illustrations |
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Contexts of ancient and medieval anthropology, 2698-3079 ; vol. 5 |
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Contexts of ancient and medieval anthropology ; v. 5.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Methodological Considerations -- Status Quaestionis -- Chapter 1: Setting the Stage -- 1.1 Body Language in Early Imperial Society -- 1.2 Sieging Olympus: Humankind Claims Immortality -- 1.3 Knowing the Gods: From Cult Statues to Iconic Persons -- 1.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 2: Emperors -- 2.1 Negotiating Divinity in Rome -- 2.2 Constructing Iconicity -- 2.3 From Image of Jupiter to Image of Christ -- 2.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Martyrs -- 3.1 Paul's Concept of Iconic Living |
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3.2 Performing Christ in the Arena -- 3.3 God's Living Temples -- 3.4 Preserving the Martyrs' Iconicity: Relics -- 3.5 Preserving the Martyrs' Iconicity: People -- 3.6 Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Initiates -- 4.1 Visions, Ascensions, and Transformations in Late Antique Initiations -- 4.2 New Bishops for a New Church -- 4.3 Making Golden Statues of Christ -- 4.4 Beyond Baptism -- 4.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Bishops -- 5.1 From Martyr-bishops to Teacher-bishops -- 5.2 Rome's Aristocratic Bishops -- 5.3 Emperor Justinian's Living Mirrors -- 5.4 Beyond the Living Bishop -- 5.5 Conclusions |
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Chapter 6: Stylites -- 6.1 Living vs. Animated Statues -- 6.2 Multiplying the Stylite's Body: Eulogia, Relics, Columns -- 6.3 Preserving the Iconic Body: Icons -- 6.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Names -- Index of Places |
| Summary |
"This book argues that Romans credited certain living persons with the capacity to function as cult statues, that is, as images and vessels of the divine. After addressing the cultural context that produced the idea that humans can become images of the divine, the text shows how emperors, bishops, and others imitated the aesthetic, immobility, and material setting of statuary to establish themselves as iconic and how their role as mediators with the divine was eventually transferred to new categories of material objects, such as relics and icons. The figure of the iconic person thus is shown to have bridged the cult statues of Antiquity with the new mechanisms of interaction with the divine that Christians used for the following millennium. By integrating living persons in the art historical analysis of the spaces and advocating for the need to consider the animation of artefacts together with the reification of bodies, this study marks an important development in the study of the past" -- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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Art and state -- Rome
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Emperors -- Rome -- Portraits.
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Idols and images -- Rome
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Art and state
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Church history -- Primitive and early church
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Emperors
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Idols and images
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Rome (Empire)
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Electronic books
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Informational works
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Portraits
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Informational works.
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Documents d'information.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783657790821 |
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3657790829 |
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