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Viewing inscriptions in the late antique and medieval world /

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1107092418 (hardback)

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9781107092419 (hardback)

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Title Proper

Viewing inscriptions in the late antique and medieval world /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Antony Eastmond (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvii, 261 pages :

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illustrations ;

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27 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

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

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Text of Note

"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 East from Spain to Iran and beyond, including Norman Sicily, Islamic North Africa, Byzantium, medieval Italy, Georgia and Armenia. While most essays focus on Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, they also look back at Achaemenid Iran and forward to Mughal India. Topics discussed include real and pseudo-writing, multilingual inscriptions, graffiti, writing disguised as images and images disguised as words. From public texts set up on mountainsides or on church and madrasa walls to intimate craftsmen's signatures, barely visible on the undersides of precious objects, the inscriptions discussed in this volume reveal their meanings as textual and visual devices"--

Civilization, Ancient, Sources

Civilization, Medieval, Sources

Inscriptions-- History-- To 1500

Visual communication-- History-- To 1500

Mediterranean Region, Antiquities

Middle East, Antiquities

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Eastmond, Antony,1966-

Date of Transaction

20151202111711.0

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