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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Viewing inscriptions / Antony Eastmond
- Inscriptions, royal spaces and Iranian identity: epigraphic practices in Persia and the ancient Iranian world / Matthew P. Canepa
- Prayers on site: the materiality of devotional graffiti and the production of early Christian sacred space / Ann Marie Yasin
- Erasure and memory: Aghlabid and Fatimid inscriptions in North Africa / Jonathan Bloom
- Textual icons: viewing inscriptions in medieval Georgia / Antony Eastmond
- Pseudo-Arabic 'inscriptions' and the pilgrim's path at Hosios Loukas / Alicia Walker
- Arabic inscriptions in the Cappella Palatina: performativity, audience, legibility, and illegibility / Jeremy Johns
- Intercession and succession, enlightenment and reflection: the inscriptional and decorative programme of the Qaratay Madrasa, Konya / Scott Redford
- Remembering Fernando: multilingualism in medieval Iberia / Tom Nickson
- Displaying the word: words as visual signs in the Armenian architectural decoration of the monastery of Noravankʻ (14th century) / Ioanna Rapti
- Written in stone: civic memory and monumental writing in the cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa Stefania Gerevini
- Place, space, and style: craftsmen's signatures in medieval Islamic art / Sheila S. Blair
- Afterword: Re-viewing inscriptions / Antony Eastmond.