Viewing inscriptions in the late antique and medieval world
Inscriptions convey meaning not just by their contents but also by other means, such as choice of script, location, scale, spatial organisation, letterform, legibility and clarity. The essays in this book consider these visual qualities of inscriptions, ranging across the Mediterranean and the Near...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2015.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b41999241*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Viewing inscriptions / Antony Eastmond
- 1. Text, image, memory, and performance : epigraphic practices in Persia and the ancient Iranian world / Matthew P. Canepa
- 2. Prayers on site : the materiality of devotional graffiti and the production of early Christian sacred space / Ann Marie Yasin
- 3. Erasure and memory : Aghlabid and Fatimid inscriptions in North Africa / Jonathan Bloom
- 4. Textual icons : viewing inscriptions in medieval Georgia / Antony Eastmond
- 5. Pseudo-Arabic "inscriptions" and the pilgrim's path at Hosios Loukas / Alicia Walker
- 6. Arabic inscriptions in the Cappella Palatina : performativity, audience, legibility, and illegibility / Jeremy Johns
- 7. Intercession and succession, enlightenment and reflection : the inscriptional and decorative program of the Qaratay Madrasa / Konya Scott Redford
- 8. Remembering Fernando : multilingualism in medieval Iberia / Tom Nickson
- 9. Displaying the word : words as visual signs in the Armenian architectural decoration of the monastery of Noravank (fourteenth century) / Ioanna Rapti
- 10. Written in stone : civic memory and monumental writing in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa Stefania Gerevini
- 11. Place, space, and style : craftsmen's signatures in medieval Islamic art / Sheila S. Blair
- Afterword: Re-viewing inscriptions / Antony Eastmond.
