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Image, Epigram, and Nature in Middle Byzantine Personal Devotion
- Author(s):
- Brad Hostetler (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Subject(s):
- Art, Byzantine, Inscriptions
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/7d7k-6g74
- Abstract:
- In Nectar and Illusion, Henry Maguire examines Byzantium's ambiguous relationship with nature in both art and literature. He demonstrates that after Iconoclasm, visual representations of the terrestrial world displayed in public settings were in "a constant tension between acceptance and denial," but "tended to flourish most abundantly in relatively inconspicuous locations," such as on small private objects. I build upon Maguire's work by examining the ways in which nature was invoked, represented, and utilized through epigrams, images, and materials in personal devotional contexts in the Middle Byzantine period.
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- Published as:
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Pub. Date:
- 2017
- Book Title:
- Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500
- Author/Editor:
- Renana Bartal, Neta Bodner, and Bianca Kühnel
- Chapter:
- Image, Epigram, and Nature in Middle Byzantine Personal Devotion
- Page Range:
- 172 - 189
- ISBN:
- 9781351809283
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 months ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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