Icon and word : the power of images in Byzantium : studies presented to Robin Cormack / edited by Antony Eastmond and Liz James.

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Other Authors: Eastmond, Antony, 1966-, James, Liz, Cormack, Robin
Other title:Icon & word.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Icon, idol, totem and fetish / Annabel Wharton
  • When all that is gold does not glitter : on the strange history of looking at Byzantine art / Rico Franses
  • Icon and portrait in the trial of Symeon the new theologian / Charles Barber
  • The power of inscriptions and the trouble with texts / Karen Boston
  • Art and lies : text, image and imagination in the medieval world / Liz James
  • Between icon and idol : the uncertainty of imperial images / Antony Eastmond
  • The icon is dead, long live the icon : the holy image in the Renaissance / Robert Maniura
  • Picturing new Jerusalem / John Wilkinson
  • Bleeding icons / Maria Vassilaki
  • Images of the mother of God in early medieval Rome / John Osborne
  • Iconic images of children in the Church of St Demetrios, Thessaloniki / Cecily Hennessy
  • The 'statuesque hodegetria' and the limitations of the sculptured icon / John Hanson
  • The migrating image : uses and abuses of Byzantine icons in western Europe / Barbara Zeitler
  • For the salvation of a woman's soul : an icon of St Michael described within a medieval Coptic context / Lucy-Anne Hunt
  • Archimedes into icon : forging an image of Byzantium / John Lowden
  • The purple thread of the flesh : the theological connotations of a narrative iconographic element in Byzantine images of the annunciation / Maria Evangelatou.