| Portion of title |
Continuities and transformations : papers from the Forty-Ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies |
| Variant title |
Papers from the 49th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies |
| Series |
Society for the promotion of byzantine studies ; Publication 23
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| Contents |
OPENING ADDRESS / Cyril Mango -- PART I. AFTER LATE ANTIQUITY: TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONS -- The process of 'Byzantinization' in Late Antique epigraphy / Sylvain Destephen -- Village churches and donors at the end of Antiquity / Ine Jacobs -- Reading, viewing and inscribing faith: Christian epigraphy in the early Umayyad Levant / Sean Leatherbury -- The epigraphy of the Abgar Story: Traditions and transitions / Ida Toth -- PART II. LEGIBILITY AND READABILITY -- Inscriptions and the Byzantine beholder: The perception of script / Andreas Rhoby -- Non-exposed funerary inscriptions and the cult of the cross between Italy and Byzantium, 6th-9th c. / Antonio Felle -- PART III. CHURCH AND STATE -- The house of inscriptions: The epigraphic world of the middle Byzantine church / Georgios Pallis -- State, strategy, and ideology in monumental imperial inscriptions / Nicholas Melvani -- Inscriptions of church and state officials on Byzantine lead seals / Alexandra Wassiliou-Seibt -- PART IV. FORMAL AND INFORMAL INSCRIPTIONS IN ATHENS -- The (in)formality of the inscribed word at the Parthenon: Legibility, script, content / Maria Xenaki -- Information Classification: General -- Byzantine funerary inscriptions on the Hephaisteion (Church of St George) in the Athenian Agora / Anne McCabe -- PART V. OBJECTS, TEXTS AND IMAGES -- Towards a typology for the placement of names on works of art / Brad Hostetler -- Word of image: Textual frames of early Byzantine icons / Maria Lidova -- Short texts on small objects: The poetics of the Byzantine enkolpion / Ivan Drpić -- PART VI. CASE STUDIES -- A Byzantine verse inscription from Konya / Marc Lauxtermann and Peter Thonemann -- The church of Sts Theodoroi (formerly St Kournatos) in Myrtia, Laconia, and its inscriptions / Christos Stavrakos -- A Lombard epigram in Greek / Marc Lauxtermann |
| Abstract |
"In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium aims to promote the field of Byzantine epigraphy as a whole, and topics and subjects covered include: Byzantine attitudes towards the inscribed word, the questions of continuity and transformation, the context and function of epigraphic evidence, the levels of formality and authority, the material aspect of writing, and the verbal, visual and symbolic meaning of inscribed texts. The collection is intended as a valuable scholarly resource presenting and examining a substantial quantity of diverse epigraphic material, and outlining the chronological development of epigraphic habits, and of individual epigraphic genres in Byzantium. The contributors also discuss the methodological questions of collecting, presenting and interpreting the most representative Byzantine inscriptional material, and addressing epigraphic material to make it relevant to a wider scholarly community."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Terms of use | Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Inscribing texts in Byzantium New York : Routledge, 2020. 9780429283468 |
| Genre/form | Conference papers and proceedings. |
| LCCN | 2019047475 |
| ISBN | 9780367246136 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0367246139 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
