Sean V. Leatherbury is Assistant Professor of Art History at Bowling Green State University, USA, and Research Associate of the European Research Council-funded project Monumental Art of the Christian and Early Islamic East, based in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, UK. His research focuses on Roman and late antique visual and material culture, and examines the relationship between art and text, issues of identity, and the transformation of the so-called minor arts from the Roman to the Byzantine period. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, USA, the Bard Graduate Center, USA, and the Council for British Research in the Levant, UK, and by funding from the Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics, UK, and the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, UK. Currently, he is completing a monograph on the late antique floor mosaics of Syria and co-editing a volume on late antique art and local identities.

"[T]he innovative approach to contemporary perception and performance of and with inscriptions in a religious context makes Sean Leatherbury's book an important study for understanding late antique epigraphy." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review"Sean Leatherbury has produced a volume that yields new perspectives and establishes a paradigm for future study while also synthesizing a vast array of scholarship... Inscribing Faith's lavishly illustrated pages...bathe images and texts in clarifying new light while guiding readers through a wonderland of late antique monuments. Sean Leatherbury never downplays the difficulties of reconstructing the experience of the late ancient viewer but in this wide-ranging study he has provided some of our best hope of sharing it." - The Classical Journal"Sean Leatherbury leads the reader into an enlightening study... Inscribing Faith breaks new ground in its singular focus on free-standing inscriptions and texts embedded within frames and figurative images... Readers of Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity will be grateful for the author’s fluid and engaging style of writing, his capacious bibliography, and the many images that can now been seen in a new light. That Leatherbury has broadened his analysis to include “pagan,” Jewish, and Muslim inscriptions and spaces only enhances the value of this richly documented study. Indeed, one looks forward to more enlightening works from this gifted historian." - Review of Biblical Literature

• List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Material texts; Chapter Three: Framing texts, framing belief; Chapter Four: Ekphrasis and experience; Chapter Five: Embedding texts into images; Chapter Six: Embedded prayers; Conclusion: Reading and seeing faith; Index

Sean V. Leatherbury is Assistant Professor of Art History at Bowling Green State University, USA, and Research Associate of the European Research Council-funded project Monumental Art of the Christian and Early Islamic East, based in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, UK. His research focuses on Roman and late antique visual and material culture, and examines the relationship between art and text, issues of identity, and the transformation of the so-called minor arts from the Roman to the Byzantine period. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, USA, the Bard Graduate Center, USA, and the Council for British Research in the Levant, UK, and by funding from the Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics, UK, and the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, UK. Currently, he is completing a monograph on the late antique floor mosaics of Syria and co-editing a volume on late antique art and local identities.

"[T]he innovative approach to contemporary perception and performance of and with inscriptions in a religious context makes Sean Leatherbury's book an important study for understanding late antique epigraphy." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review"Sean Leatherbury has produced a volume that yields new perspectives and establishes a paradigm for future study while also synthesizing a vast array of scholarship... Inscribing Faith's lavishly illustrated pages...bathe images and texts in clarifying new light while guiding readers through a wonderland of late antique monuments. Sean Leatherbury never downplays the difficulties of reconstructing the experience of the late ancient viewer but in this wide-ranging study he has provided some of our best hope of sharing it." - The Classical Journal"Sean Leatherbury leads the reader into an enlightening study... Inscribing Faith breaks new ground in its singular focus on free-standing inscriptions and texts embedded within frames and figurative images... Readers of Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity will be grateful for the author’s fluid and engaging style of writing, his capacious bibliography, and the many images that can now been seen in a new light. That Leatherbury has broadened his analysis to include “pagan,” Jewish, and Muslim inscriptions and spaces only enhances the value of this richly documented study. Indeed, one looks forward to more enlightening works from this gifted historian." - Review of Biblical Literature

• List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Material texts; Chapter Three: Framing texts, framing belief; Chapter Four: Ekphrasis and experience; Chapter Five: Embedding texts into images; Chapter Six: Embedded prayers; Conclusion: Reading and seeing faith; Index