{"product_id":"vision-and-meaning-in-ninth-century-byzantium-image-as-exegesis-in-the-homilies-of-gregory-of-nazianzus-hardback-9780521621533","title":"Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium; Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus (Hardback) 9780521621533","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImage as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the aftermath of Iconoclasm.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeslie Brubaker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521621533, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 February 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e568 pages, 177 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e25.5 x 18 x 3.4 cm, 1.37 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium will be essential for any library serving Byzantine, medieval, or art-historical studies.\"    The Catholic Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Byzantines used imagery to communicate a wide range of issues. In the context of Iconoclasm - the debate about the legitimacy of religious art conducted between c. AD 730 and 843 - Byzantine authors themselves claimed that visual images could express certain ideas better than words. Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the aftermath of Iconoclasm. Its focus is on a deluxe manuscript commissioned around 880, a copy of the fourth-century sermons of the Cappadocian church father Gregory of Nazianzus which presented to the Emperor Basil I, founder of the Macedonian dynasty, by one of the greatest scholars Byzantium ever produced, the patriarch Photios. The manuscript was lavishly decorated with gilded initials, elaborate headpieces and a full-page miniature before each of Gregory's sermons. Forty-six of these, including over 200 distinct scenes, survive. Fewer than half however were directly inspired by the homily that they accompany. Instead most function as commentaries on the ninth-century court and carefully deconstructed both provide us with information not available from preserved written sources and perhaps more important show us how visual images communicate differently from words.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sitting the miniatures: imagery in the ninth century\u003cbr\u003e 2. The miniatures: internal evidence\u003cbr\u003e 3. The biographical miniatures: toward image as exegesis\u003cbr\u003e 4. Basil I and visual panegyric\u003cbr\u003e 5. The patriarch Photios and visual exegesis\u003cbr\u003e 6. Mission, martyrdom and visual polemic\u003cbr\u003e 7. Perceptions of divinity\u003cbr\u003e 8. Iconography\u003cbr\u003e 9. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20classical,%20early%20\u0026amp;%20medieval%20%5BDSBB%5D%22\"\u003eDSBB\u003c\/a\u003e], Palaeography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Palaeography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Palaeography%20%5Bhistory%20of%20writing%5D%20%5BCFL%5D%22\"\u003ehistory of writing CFL\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129273110808,"sku":"9780521621533","price":111.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521621533.gif?v=1691666518","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/vision-and-meaning-in-ninth-century-byzantium-image-as-exegesis-in-the-homilies-of-gregory-of-nazianzus-hardback-9780521621533","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}