Glenn Peers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium (2001).

“Sacred Shock is a significant and scholarly contribution that will both invigorate and stir controversy within its primary field, and be read and understood by those beyond.”—John Osborne, University of Victoria

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: The Great Age of the Frame1.The Crucifixion Contained and Containing2.The Bloody Page in the Chludov Psalter3.Gregory of Nazianzus as Twelfth-Century Paradigm4.Saint George and His Iconic Bodies5.Silver Cladding and the Assimilation of Bodies and FacesEpilogue: The Body FramingAbbreviationsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Glenn Peers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium (2001).

“Sacred Shock is a significant and scholarly contribution that will both invigorate and stir controversy within its primary field, and be read and understood by those beyond.”—John Osborne, University of Victoria

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: The Great Age of the Frame1.The Crucifixion Contained and Containing2.The Bloody Page in the Chludov Psalter3.Gregory of Nazianzus as Twelfth-Century Paradigm4.Saint George and His Iconic Bodies5.Silver Cladding and the Assimilation of Bodies and FacesEpilogue: The Body FramingAbbreviationsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Glenn Peers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium (2001).

“Sacred Shock is a significant and scholarly contribution that will both invigorate and stir controversy within its primary field, and be read and understood by those beyond.”—John Osborne, University of Victoria

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: The Great Age of the Frame1.The Crucifixion Contained and Containing2.The Bloody Page in the Chludov Psalter3.Gregory of Nazianzus as Twelfth-Century Paradigm4.Saint George and His Iconic Bodies5.Silver Cladding and the Assimilation of Bodies and FacesEpilogue: The Body FramingAbbreviationsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex