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Egypt in the Byzantine World (300–700)
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Egypt in the period from the reign of the emperor Constantine to the Arab conquest was both a vital part of the Late Roman and Byzantine world, participating fully in the culture of its wider Mediterranean society, and a distinctive milieu, launched on a path to developing the Coptic Christian culture that we see fully only after the end of Byzantine rule. This book is the first comprehensive survey of Egypt to treat this entire period including the first half-century of Arab rule. Twenty-one renowned specialists present the history, society, economy, culture, religious institutions, art and architecture of the period. Topics covered range from elite literature to mummification and from monks to Alexandrian scholars. A full range of Egypt's uniquely rich source materials - literature, papyrus documents, letters, and archaeological remains - gives exceptional depth and vividness to this portrait of a society, and recent archaeological discoveries are described and illustrated.
• Presents the first comprehensive survey of Egypt during the period from the reign of the emperor Constantine to the Arab conquest in 641 • Illustrated throughout with recent archaeological discoveries • Written by renowned specialists in the field
Contents
1. Introduction Roger S. Bagnall; Part I. The Culture of Byzantine Egypt: 2. Poets and pagans in Byzantine Egypt Alan Cameron; 3. Higher education in early Byzantine Egypt: rhetoric, Latin, and the law Raffaella Cribiore; 4. Philosophy in its social context Leslie S. B. MacCoull; 5. Coptic literature in the Byzantine and early Islamic world Stephen Emmel; 6. Early Christian architecture in Egypt and its relationship to the architecture of the Byzantine world Peter Grossmann; 7. Coptic and Byzantine textiles found in Egypt: corpora, collections, and scholarly perspectives Thelma Thomas; 8. Between tradition and innovation: Egyptian funerary practices in late antiquity Françoise Dunand; Part II. Government, Environments, Society and Economy: 9. Alexandria in the fourth-seventh century Zsolt Kiss; 10. The other cities in later Roman Egypt Peter van Minnen; 11. Byzantine Egyptian villages James Keenan; 12. The imperial presence: government and army Bernhard Palme; 13. Byzantine Egypt and imperial law Joëlle Beaucamp; 14. Aristocratic landholding and the economy of Byzantine Egypt Todd Hickey; 15. Gender and society in Byzantine Egypt Terry Wilfong; Part III. Christianity: The Church and Monasticism: 16. The institutional church Ewa Wipszycka; 17. The cult of saints: a haven of continuity in a changing world? Arietta Papaconstantinou; 18. Divine architects: designing the monastic dwelling place Darlene Brooks Hedstrom; 19. Monasticism in Byzantine Egypt: continuity and memory James Goehring; 20. Depicting the kingdom of heaven: paintings and monastic practice in late antique Egypt Elizabeth Bolman; Part IV. Epilogue: 21. The Arab conquest of Egypt and the beginning of Muslim rule Petra Sijpesteijn.
Contributors
Roger S. Bagnall, Alan Cameron, Raffaella Cribiore, Leslie S. B. MacCoull, Stephen Emmel, Peter Grossmann, Thelma Thomas, Françoise Dunand, Zsolt Kiss, Peter van Minnen, James Keenan, Bernhard Palme, Joëlle Beaucamp, Todd Hickey, Terry Wilfong, Ewa Wipszycka, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, James Goehring, Elizabeth Bolman, Petra Sijpesteijn
Art and Text in Byzantine Culture édité par Elizabeth James
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Art and Text in Byzantine Culture explores the relationship between images and words, and examines the different types of interactions between pictures and texts in Byzantine art. Byzantium is the only major world power to have experienced political upheaval on a vast scale as a result of an argument about art during the Iconoclasm period. The dynamic between art and text in Byzantium is essential to understanding Byzantine art and culture and allows us to explore the close linking of image and word in a society where the correct relationship between the two was critical to the well-being of the state. Composed of specially-commissioned essays written by an international team of scholars, this volume analyzes how contemporaries wrote about art, how images and text work together in Byzantine art, and how the words written on art works contribute to their meaning.
• First collection on the relationship between art and text in Byzantium • Contributions by major Anglo-American scholars in the field • Takes various theoretical and methodological approaches
Contents
Introduction: art and text in Byzantium Liz James; 1. Accomplishing the picture: Ekphrasis, mimesis, and martyrdom in Asterios of Amaseia Ruth Webb; 2. The rhetoric of buildings in the De Aedificiis of Procopius Jas Elsner; 3. Every cliche in the book: the linguistic turn and the text-image discourse in Byzantine manuscripts Leslie Brubaker; 4. In the presence of the text: a note on writing, speaking and performing in the Theodore Psalter Charles Barber; 5. Image and inscription: pleas for salvation in spaces of devotion Robert S. Nelson; 6. Epigrams on icons Bissera V. Pentcheva; 7. Eufrasius and friends: on names and their absence in Byzantine art Henry Maguire; 8. Echoes of orality in the monumental inscriptions of Byzantium Amy Papalexandrou; 9. ‘And shall these mute stones speak?’ Words as art Liz James.
Contributors
Liz James, Ruth Webb, Jas Elsner, Leslie Brubaker, Charles Barber, Robert S. Nelson, Bissera V. Pentcheva, Henry Maguire, Amy Papalexandrou