This volume contains groundbreaking articles by eminent scholars in
the field on the art and architecture of the Byzantine world
from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries.
Stretching from Russia to the Mediterranean, the Byzantine world
encompasses a multitude of distinct styles and areas, many of which
are examined in this volume. Written by some of the most eminent
scholars in the field, the studies deal with the architecture and
art of the Eastern world from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries.
Underpinned by iconography, style, reception and date, these essays
attempt to contextualize the eastern world and the west, the Muslim
and the Christian, the specific detail and the larger picture.
Looking at many topics for the first time, these essays are
destined to open the field of scholarship for future research in
the area.
Representations of Towers in Byzantine Art: The Question of Meaning - Slobodan Ćurčić
Monastic Challenges: Some Manuscripts of the Heavenly Ladder - Nancy P. Ševčenko
Legal Iconicity: The Documentary Image, the Problem of Genre, and the Work of the Beholder - Anthony Cutler
The Bahattin Samanliği Kilisesi at Belisırma (Cappadocia) Revisited - Catherine Jolivet-Lévy
Moslems, Christians, and Iconoclasm: Erasures from Church Floor Mosaics during the Early Islamic Period - Henry Maguire
Muslims, Christians, and Iconoclasm: A Case Study of Images and Erasure on Lamps in the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Collection - Eunice Dauterman Maguire
Byzantium between East and West and the Origins of Heraldry - Robert Ousterhout
Manuscripts Speaking: The History of the Readership and Ownership - Sofia Kotzabassi
From Byzantium to Princeton: A Century of Collecting Greek Manuscripts - Don C. Skemer