The Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals II: Studies on Images of the Saints and on Personal Piety

ISBN-13: 9780367346997 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 350 str.

John A. Cotsonis

Opis

The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1: SAINTS’ IMAGES ON SEALS; 1. Saints & Cult Centers: A Geographic & Administrative Perspective in Light of Byzantine Lead Seals; 2. An Eleventh-Century Seal with a Representation of Patriarch Antony II Kauleas; 3. The Contribution of Byzantine Lead Seals to the Study of the Cult of the Saints (Sixth-Twelfth Century); 4. ’What Shall We Call You, O Holy Ones?’ (Martyrikon Automelon, Plagal 4^th): Images of Saints and Their Invocations on Byzantine Lead Seals as Means of Investigating Personal Piety (6^th-12^th Centuries); 5. Choired Saints on Byzantine Lead Seals & Their Significance (Sixth-Twelfth Centuries): A Preliminary Report; 6. An Image of Saint Nicholas with the ‘Tongues of Fire’ on a Byzantine Lead Seal; Part 2: SPHRAGISTIC IMAGERY AND PERSONAL PIETY; 7. Onomastics, Gender, Office and Images on Byzantine Lead Seals: A Means of Investigating Personal Piety; 8. Religious Figural Images on Byzantine Lead Seals as a Reflection of Visual Piety during the Iconoclastic Controversy

O autorze

John A. Cotsonis is the Director of the Archbishop Iakovos Library at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, a Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and a Byzantine art historian specializing in the iconography of Byzantine lead seals. He is the author of Byzantine Figural Processional Crosses which is regarded as the standard work on the subject.