| Description |
1 online resource (475 p.) |
| Series |
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies ; v.26 |
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Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Henry Maguire's publications -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Picturing Thessaloniki -- 2. An icon of John the Baptist -- 3. Internationalizing Russia's Byzantine heritage: medieval enamels and chromolithographic geopolitics -- 4. Gender and gesture in Byzantine images -- 5. Portrait of a lady -- 6. The perils of Polyeuktos: on the manifestations of a martyr in Byzantine art, cult and literature |
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7. Hanging by a thread: the death of Judas in early Christian art -- 8. Claiming the Cross: reconsidering the Stavelot Triptych -- 9. The making of an icon: 'Christ of the Miracle of the Latomou' -- 10. Firm flowers in the artifice of transience -- 11. Art and efficacy in an icon of St George -- 12. Contexts for the Christos Paschon -- 13. The calendar of saints in Hodegon lectionaries -- 14. Multiple phase churches in Cappadocia -- 15. Visions of the Passion imagined through the agency of voice and icon -- 16. The season of salvation: images and texts at Li Monaci in Apulia |
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17. King David narratives, messianic politics and the Dura-Europos Synagogue -- 18. From a conqueror to a legitimate heir: the Byzantine princely family, Gentile Bellini and Mehmed II Fatih -- 19. The giraffe that came to Constantinople -- 20. The many-eyed archangels in early Byzantine art -- 21. Absence of nomina sacra in post-iconoclastic images of Christ and the Virgin: mosaics of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople -- 22. Integrated yet segregated: eastern Islamic art in twelfth-century Byzantium -- 23. The Mother of God in the earthly paradise -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schroeder, Rossitza
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| ISBN |
9781351185585 |
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1351185586 |
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