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Sacred Shock
Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium
Av Glenn Peers
Inbunden, 2005
812 kr
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"So a miracle leaves its frame, and one epiphanic detail Illuminates an entire epoch" —Derek Walcott, from Tiepolo’s Hound Art did not exist in Byzantium. As Glenn Peers explains in Sacred Shock, there were, instead, a variety of devotional objects—pectoral crosses, church mosaics, icons, and …
Subtle Bodies
Representing Angels in Byzantium
Av Glenn Peers
Inbunden, 2001
794 kr
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Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This …
Subtle Bodies
Representing Angels in Byzantium
Av Glenn Peers
E-bok, 2001
945 kr
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Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This …
Animism, Materiality, and Museums
How Do Byzantine Things Feel?
Av Glenn Peers
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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Byzantine art is normally explained as devotional, historical, highly intellectualized, but this book argues for an experiential necessity for a fuller, deeper, more ethical approach to this art. Written in response to an exhibition the author curated at The Menil Collection in 2013, this monograph …
Strange and Familiar Histories of Byzantine Art
Interpretation, Risk, and Empathy
Av Glenn Peers
Inbunden, 2026
1964 kr
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This book represents a risky experiment in art-history writing. It takes objects of Byzantine art—manuscript illustration, frescos, mosaic, sculpture—and reads them through the lenses of disability studies, media studies, and gender studies in order to reveal something about their significance not …
Animism, Materiality, and Museums
How Do Byzantine Things Feel?
Av Glenn Peers
Inbunden, 2021
2106 kr
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Byzantine art is normally explained as devotional, historical, highly intellectualized, but this book argues for an experiential necessity for a fuller, deeper, more ethical approach to this art. Written in response to an exhibition the author curated at The Menil Collection in 2013, this monograph …
Byzantine Tree Life
Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination
Av Thomas Arentzen, Virginia Burrus m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1468 kr
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This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of …
Byzantine Tree Life
Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination
Av Glenn Peers, Virginia Burrus m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
1838 kr
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This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of …
Byzantine Tree Life
Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination
Av Thomas Arentzen, Virginia Burrus m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1468 kr
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This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of …
'The Bird Who Sang the Trisagion' of Isaac of Antioch
Becoming Parrot in a Late Antique Syriac Sermon
Av Robert A. Kitchen, Glenn Peers
Inbunden, 2024
545 kr
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This book provides close historical, theological and cultural analyses of an important, but neglected, Late Antique writer, Isaac of Antioch, who was active during the second half of the fifth century. This book is the first English-language monograph on this key figure and also includes the first …
'The Bird Who Sang the Trisagion' of Isaac of Antioch
Becoming Parrot in a Late Antique Syriac Sermon
Av Glenn Peers, Robert A. Kitchen
E-bok, 2024
699 kr
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This book provides close historical, theological and cultural analyses of an important, but neglected, Late Antique writer, Isaac of Antioch, who was active during the second half of the fifth century. This book is the first English-language monograph on this key figure and also includes the first …
'The Bird Who Sang the Trisagion' of Isaac of Antioch
Becoming Parrot in a Late Antique Syriac Sermon
Av Robert A. Kitchen, Glenn Peers
Häftad, 2025
545 kr
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This book provides close historical, theological and cultural analyses of an important, but neglected, Late Antique writer, Isaac of Antioch, who was active during the second half of the fifth century. This book is the first English-language monograph on this key figure and also includes the first …
Byzantine Things in the World
Av Glenn Peers
Inbunden, 2013
410 kr
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How did Byzantine culture understand its own objects we now call “art”? This enlightening publication proposes that they saw and experienced clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of saints as dynamic and fully active and alive in the world. The materials used and the sensory impressions …
