Author: Nicolas OikonomidèsPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884021445
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Byzantine Lead Seals
Author: Nicolas OikonomidèsPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884021445
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient
Author: Dumbarton OaksPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022503
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Volume 3 includes seals with place names from west, northwest, and central Asia Minor and the Orient. Each section begins with a short essay on the region's history. Each seal is illustrated and accompanied--where appropriate--by commentary on date, its owner, peculiarities of orthography, and special features of iconography.
Through a Glass Brightly
Author: Chris EntwistlePublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785702734
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for over twenty years the curator of the British Museum's Early Christian and Byzantine collections and the National Icon Collection.
A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004391444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages is a cross-disciplinary collection of fourteen essays on medieval sigillography. It is organized thematically, and it emphasizes important, often cutting-edge, methodologies for the study of medieval seals and sealing cultures. As the chronological, temporal and geographic scope of the essays in the volume suggests, the study of the medieval seal—its manufacture, materiality, usage, iconography, inscription, and preservation—is a rich endeavour that demands collaboration across disciplines as well as between scholars working on material from different regions and periods. It is hoped that this collection will make the study of medieval seals more accessible and will stimulate students and scholars to employ and further develop these material and methodological approaches to seals. Contributors are Adrian Ailes, Elka Cwiertnia, Paul Dryburgh, Emir O. Filipovi, Oliver Harris, Philippa Hoskin, Ashley Jones, Andreas Lehnertz, John McEwan, Elizabeth A. New, Jonathan Shea, Caroline Simonet, Angelina A. Volkoff, and Marek L. Wójcik.
Byzantine Seals
Author: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Washington, DC)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium
Author: Thomas ArentzenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108476287
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Images and texts tell various stories about the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, reflecting an important cult with strong doctrinal foundations.
Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art: The East (continued), Constantinople and environs, unknown locations, addenda, uncertain readings
Author: Dumbarton OaksPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884023098
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Volume 5 in the Byzantine Seals catalogue includes seals with place names from the East, Constantinople and its environs, and seals with uncertain readings. These seals contribute significantly to historical geography, the evolution of the Byzantine imperial administration, development in the Greek language, and decorative vogues.
Walking Corpses
Author: Timothy S. MillerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801470765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Leprosy has afflicted humans for thousands of years. It wasn't until the twelfth century, however, that the dreaded disease entered the collective psyche of Western society, thanks to a frightening epidemic that ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidly expanding number of victims. As important as these events were, Timothy Miller and John Nesbitt remind us that the history of leprosy in the West is incomplete without also considering the Byzantine Empire, which confronted leprosy and its effects well before the Latin West. In Walking Corpses, they offer the first account of medieval leprosy that integrates the history of East and West.In their informative and engaging account, Miller and Nesbitt challenge a number of misperceptions and myths about medieval attitudes toward leprosy (known today as Hansen’s disease). They argue that ethical writings from the Byzantine world and from Catholic Europe never branded leprosy as punishment for sin; rather, theologians and moralists saw the disease as a mark of God’s favor on those chosen for heaven. The stimulus to ban lepers from society and ultimately to persecute them came not from Christian influence but from Germanic customary law. Leprosariums were not prisons to punish lepers but were centers of care to offer them support; some even provided both male and female residents the opportunity to govern their own communities under a form of written constitution. Informed by recent bioarchaeological research that has vastly expanded knowledge of the disease and its treatment by medieval society, Walking Corpses also includes three key Greek texts regarding leprosy (one of which has never been translated into English before).
Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art: The East
Author: Dumbarton OaksPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022824
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The vast collection of 17,000 Byzantine lead seals in the Harvard collections has long been recognized as an important source for the study of the Byzantine provinces. This volume is the fourth in the series of catalogues of geographical seals, and presents photographs, descriptions, and commentaries on the seals from the East.
Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
Author: Cecily J. HilsdalePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033306
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Questions how political decline refigures the visual culture of empire by examining the imperial image and the gift in later Byzantium (1261-1453). Provides a more nuanced account of medieval artistic cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.