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Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations book cover

1st Edition

Inscribing Texts in Byzantium Continuities and Transformations

Edited By Marc Lauxtermann, Ida Toth Copyright 2020
408 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Opening Address, Cyril Mango

Part I. After Late Antiquity: Traditions and Transitions

1 The process of ‘Byzantinization’ in Late Antique epigraphy, Sylvain Destephen

2 Village churches and donors at the end of Antiquity, Ine Jacobs

3 Reading, viewing and inscribing faith: Christian epigraphy in the early Umayyad Levant, Sean Leatherbury

4 The epigraphy of the Abgar Story: Traditions and transitions, Ida Toth

Part II. Legibility and Readability

5 Inscriptions and the Byzantine beholder: The perception of script, Andreas Rhoby

6 Non-exposed funerary inscriptions and the cult of the cross between Italy and Byzantium, 6th–9th c., Antonio Felle

Part III. Church and State

7 The house of inscriptions: The epigraphic world of the middle Byzantine church, Georgios Pallis

8 State, strategy, and ideology in monumental imperial inscriptions, Nicholas Melvani

9 Inscriptions of church and state officials on Byzantine lead seals, Alexandra Wassiliou-Seibt

Part IV. Formal and Informal Inscriptions in Athens

10 The (in)formality of the inscribed word at the Parthenon: Legibility, script, content, Maria Xenaki

11 Byzantine funerary inscriptions on the Hephaisteion (Church of St George) in the Athenian Agora, Anne McCabe

Part V. Objects, Texts and Images

12 Towards a typology for the placement of names on works of art, Brad Hostetler

13 Word of image: Textual frames of early Byzantine icons, Maria Lidova

14 Short texts on small objects: The poetics of the Byzantine enkolpion, Ivan Drpic

Part VI. Case Studies

15 A Byzantine verse inscription from Konya, Marc Lauxtermann and Peter Thonemann

16 The church of Sts Theodoroi (formerly St Kournatos) in Myrtia, Laconia, and its inscriptions, Christos Stavrakos

17 A Lombard epigram in Greek, Marc Lauxtermann

Biography

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

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