Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity: Between Reading and Seeing

ISBN-13: 9781472459183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 366 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