Sources for Byzantine Art History: Volume 3, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081–c.1350)

A vast, unique collection of primary sources on Byzantine visual culture, translated from nine medieval linguistic traditions.

Foteini Spingou (Edited by)

9781108483056, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 21 April 2022

1718 pages
25 x 17.5 x 8.6 cm, 3.37 kg

In this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries. The first part uncovers salient aspects of Byzantine artistic production and its aesthetic reception, while the second puts a spotlight on particular ways of expressing admiration and of interpreting of the visual.

Part I. Art, Aesthetics and Literature:
1. Notions of the image in later Byzantium Charles Barber, David Jenkins, Nathan Leidholm, Dimiter Angelov, Martin Hinterberger and Thomas A. Carlson
2. Artists and patrons Foteini Spingou, Ivan Drpi?, Theocharis Tsampouras, Alice-Mary Talbot, Alexander Alexakis and Annemarie Weyl Carr
3. Eikon and iconography in later Byzantium Foteini Spingou, Nikos Zagklas, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Mircea Dulu?, Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis, Maria Mavroudi, Nikos Zagklas, Alicia Walker, Michael Jeffreys and Elizabeth Jeffreys
4. Materials Foteini Spingou, Eric Cullhed, Marina Bazzani, with a note on the author in collaboration with Andreas Rhoby, Shannon Steiner, Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Mchael Grünbart
5. Seeing spaces: responses to built environment Foteini Spingou, Efthymios Rizos, Alex J. Novikoff, George P. Majeska, Thomas A. Carlson, Cecilia Palombo, Lee Mordechai, Scott Ashley, Robert Romanchuk, Brad Hostetler, Matthew W. Herrington, Christopher Timm, Sarah Simmons, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Mchael Grünbart, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Alicia Walker, M. Michèle Mulchahey, Divna Manolova and Paul Magdalino
6. Art and devotion Foteini Spingou, Alexander Riehle, Alice-Mary Talbot, Ida Toth, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Luisa Andriollo, Michael Featherstone, Reinhart Ceulemans and Brad Hostetler
7. Memory and art Foteini Spingou, Martin Hinterberger, Florin Leonte, Alice-Mary Talbot, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Andreas Rhoby and John Lansdowne
8. Beauty Foteini Spingou, Ioannis Polemis, Alexander Alexakis, Dimiter Angelov, Mircea Dulu?, Marina Bazzani, Daphne Penna, Vasileios Marinis, Elizabeth Jeffreys, K. Stewart, Peter Van Deun, Michael Jeffreys, Maria Mavroudi, Alexander Riehle and Christina Maranci
Part II. Literature, Art and Aesthetics:
9. Counting down: inventories Maria Parani, Ludovic Bender, Alice-Mary Talbot and Foteini Spingou
10. Describing, experiencing, narrating: the use of ekphrasis (ca. 1081–1330s) Ingela Nilsson, Eric Cullhed, Baukje van den Berg, Charis Messis, Konstantinos Chryssogelos, Maria Tomadaki, Przemys?aw Marciniak and Mircea Dulu?
11. Speaking: Ethopoiiae Elizabeth Jeffreys, Katarzyna Warcaba, Michael Jeffreys, Luisa Andriollo and Nikos Zagklas
12. Instructing and dedicating: epigrams on works of art Foteini Spingou, Nikos Zagklas, Luisa Andriollo, Nikos Zagklas, L. Safran, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Andreas Rhoby, Annemarie Weyl Carr and Alice-Mary Talbot
13. Reading: book epigrams Kristoffel Demoen, Rachele Ricceri, Renaat Meesters, Maria Tomadaki and Annemarie Weyl Carr
14. Marking: later Byzantine epigraphic culture Ida Toth, Peter Van Deun, Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Jeremy Johns, Linda Safran, Lisa Mahoney, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Irena Špadijer and Ekaterine Gedevanishvili
15. Lamenting: tomb epigrams and epitaphs Foteini Spingou, Ilias Taxidis and Andreas Rhoby.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], European history [HBJD], History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400 [ACK]