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9780521101813

Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus

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    9780521101813

  • ISBN10:

    0521101816

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-12-11
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This book centers on the copy of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus produced in Constantinople around 880 for the emperor Basil I as a gift from the patriarch Photios. The manuscript includes forty-six full page miniatures, most of which do not directly illustrate the text they accompany, but instead provide a visual commentary. Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such communication worked, and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in ninth-century Byzantium.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Sitting the miniatures: imagery in the ninth century
The miniatures: internal evidence
The biographical miniatures: toward image as exegesis
Basil I and visual panegyric
The patriarch Photios and visual exegesis
Mission, martyrdom and visual polemic
Perceptions of divinity
Iconography
Conclusions
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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