Images of the Byzantine World : Visions, Messages and Meanings: Studies Presented to Leslie Brubaker (Hardcover, New ed)

Contents: Leslie Brubaker: Biography and Published Works, Kallirroe Linardou; Preface, Angeliki Lymberopoulou; 'Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth': touch and the meaning of Byzantine art, Liz James; Memories of buildings? Messages in late antique architectural representations, Maria Cristina Carile; 'And the mother did not spare the baby in her breast' or searching for meaning in tecnoctonia and tecnophagy, Dionysios Stathakopoulos; The anxiety of images: meanings and material objects, Averil Cameron; Messages, meanings and metamorphoses: the icon of the Transfiguration of Zarzma, Antony Eastmond; Messages in context: the reading of sermons in Byzantine churches and monasteries, Mary B. Cunningham; 'The teaching of the ladder': the message of the Heavenly Ladder image in Sinai ms. gr. 417, Kathleen Corrigan and Nancy P. Sevcenko; Visions and meanings: personifications in Octateuch cycles, Maja Kominko; 'Signs and symbols of your always victorious reign'. The political ideology and meaning of falconry in Byzantium, Henry Maguire; Messages in the landscape: searching for Gregory Nazianzenos in Cappadocia (with two excursions to the Canli Kilise), Robert Ousterhout; New visions of old meanings: Paris gr. 135 and some anti-Latin visual implications, Kallirroe Linardou; The Noli Me Tangere icon at the British Museum: vision, message and reality, Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Lynne Harrison and Janet Ambers; Byzantine 'visions' of the Ottoman empire: theories of Ottoman legitimacy by Byzantine scholars after the fall of Constantinople, Konstantinos Moustakas; Conclusions, Chris Wickham; Index.