Inscribing Texts in Byzantium

Continuities and Transformations
Herausgeber: Lauxtermann, Marc; Toth, Ida

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Produktbeschreibung

In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium aims to promote the field of Byzantine epigraphy as a whole, and topics and subjects covered include: Byzantine attitudes towards the inscribed word, the questions of continuity and transformation, the context and function of epigraphic evidence, the levels of formality and authority, the material aspect of writing, and the verbal, visual and symbolic meaning of inscribed texts. The collection is intended as a valuable scholarly resource presenting and examining a substantial quantity of diverse epigraphic material, and outlining the chronological development of epigraphic habits, and of individual epigraphic genres in Byzantium. The contributors also discuss the methodological questions of collecting, presenting and interpreting the most representative Byzantine inscriptional material, and addressing epigraphic material to make it relevant to a wider scholarly community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781032174648
• ISBN-10: 1032174641
• Artikelnr.: 62571415

Autorenporträt

Marc D. Lauxtermann, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, Exeter College, University of Oxford Ida Toth, University Research Lecturer and Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

Opening Address
Part 1. After Late Antiquity: Traditions and Transitions
1. The process of 'Byzantinization' in Late Antique epigraphy
2. Village churches and donors at the end of Antiquity
3. Reading, viewing and inscribing faith: Christian epigraphy in the early Umayyad Levant
4. The epigraphy of the Abgar Story: Traditions and transitions
Part 2. Legibility and Readability
5. Inscriptions and the Byzantine beholder: The perception of script
6. Non-exposed funerary inscriptions and the cult of the cross between Italy and Byzantium, 6th-9th c
Part 3. Church and State
7. The house of inscriptions: The epigraphic world of the middle Byzantine church
8. State, strategy, and ideology in monumental imperial inscriptions
9. Inscriptions of church and state officials on Byzantine lead seals
Part 4. Formal and Informal Inscriptions in Athens
10. The (in)formality of the inscribed word at the Parthenon: Legibility, script, content
11. Byzantine funerary inscriptions on the Hephaisteion (Church of St George) in the Athenian Agora
Part 5. Objects, Texts and Images
12. Towards a typology for the placement of names on works of art
13. Word of image: Textual frames of early Byzantine icons
14. Short texts on small objects: The poetics of the Byzantine enkolpion
Part 6. Case Studies
15. A Byzantine verse inscription from Konya
16. The church of Sts Theodoroi (formerly St Kournatos) in Myrtia, Laconia, and its inscriptions
17. A Lombard epigram in Greek