Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity: Between Reading and Seeing

ISBN-13: 9781032090757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 390 str.

Sean V. Leatherbury

Opis

Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300-800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces of worship, and explores how they functioned both textually and visually.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.