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Epigram, art, and devotion in later Byzantium /
Using epigrammatic poetry as a framework, investigates the interplay between art and religious devotion in the later Byzantine period.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title ; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication ; Table of contents ; List of illustrations ; List of color plates ; Acknowledgments ; Note to the reader ; List of abbreviations ; Introduction ; I. ; II. ; III. ; 1 From composition to performance: epigrams in context.
- Why verse? Epigrams and the power of logos Verses on the page: epigrams in the manuscript record ; Patrons, poets, artists ; Epigrams and the viewer/reader ; 2 The patron's ''I'' ; Between praise and prayer: the patron in the dedicatory epigram ; The patron says ''I''
- Performed identities, crafted selves 3 Kosmos ; What is kosmos? ; Kosmos, matter, and the sacred ; Cladding/clothing ; 4 Golden words ; Script as ornament ; Verses in space ; Labyrinths and crosses: figured epigrams ; Logikos kosmos ; 5 Devotional gifts.
- Toward a typology of devotional gifts Gifts, prayers, and memory ; Paradoxical exchange ; 6 The erotics of devotion ; Of gifts and love ; Defining pothos ; Personal patronage and the rhetoric of pothos ; 7 Image of the beloved ; Affective images.
- Adornment, desire, and the relational self Epithets ; Pothos portrayed ; Conclusion ; Bibliography.