Images of the Byzantine world : visions, messages, and meanings: studies presented to Leslie Brubaker /
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Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- Leslie Brubaker : biography and published works / Kalliroe Linardou
- Preface / Angeliki Lymberopoulou
- "Seeingʹs believing but feelingʹs the truth" : touch and the meaning of Byzantine art / Liz James
- Memories of buildings? : messages in late Antique architectural representations / Maria Cristina Carile
- "And the mother did not spare the baby in her breast," or, Searching for meaning in tecnoctonia and tecnophagy / Dionysios Stathakopoulos
- The anxiety of images : meanings and material objects / Averil Cameron
- Messages, meanings, and metamorphoses : the icon of the Transfiguration of Zarzma / Antony Eastmond
- Messages in context : the reading of sermons in Byzantine churches and monasteries / Mary B. Cunningham
- "The teaching of the ladder" : the message of the heavenly ladder image in Sinai ms. gr. 417 / Kathleen Corrigan and Nancy P. S?evc?enko
- Visions and meanings : personifications in Octateuch cycles / Maja Kominko
- "Signs and symbols of your always victorious reign" : the political ideology and meaning of falconry in Byzantium / Henry Maguire
- Messages in the landscape : searching for Gregory Nazianzenos in Cappadocia (with two excursions to the C?anli Kilise) / Robert Ousterhout
- New visions of old meanings : Paris gr. 135 and some anti-Latin visual implications / Kalliroe Linardou
- The Noli Me Tangere icon at the British Museum : vision, message, and reality / Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Lynne Harisson, and Janet Ambers
- Byzantine "visions" of the Ottoman Empire : theories of Ottoman legitimacy by Byzantine scholars after the fall of Constantinople / Konstantinos Moustakas
- Conclusions / Chris Wickham.