Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Eastmond, Antony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Inscriptions 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316235379
• Artikelnr.: 52466155

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: viewing inscriptions Antony Eastmond; 1. Text, image, memory,
and performance: epigraphic practices in Persia and the ancient Iranian
world Matthew P. Canepa; 2. Prayers on site: the materiality of devotional
graffiti and the production of early Christian sacred space Ann Marie
Yasin; 3. Erasure and memory: Aghlabid and Fatimid inscriptions in North
Africa Jonathan Bloom; 4. Textual icons: viewing inscriptions in medieval
Georgia Antony Eastmond; 5. Pseudo-Arabic 'inscriptions' and the pilgrim's
path at Hosios Loukas Alicia Walker; 6. Arabic inscriptions in the Cappella
Palatina: performativity, audience, legibility, and illegibility Jeremy
Johns; 7. Intercession and succession, enlightenment and reflection: the
inscriptional and decorative program of the Qaratay Madrasa, Konya Scott
Redford; 8. Remembering Fernando: multilingualism in medieval Iberia Tom
Nickson; 9. Displaying the word: words as visual signs in the Armenian
architectural decoration of the monastery of Noravank (fourteenth century)
Ioanna Rapti; 10. Written in stone: civic memory and monumental writing in
the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa Stefania Gerevini; 11. Place, space,
and style: craftsmen's signatures in medieval Islamic art Sheila S. Blair;
Afterword: re-viewing inscriptions Antony Eastmond.