Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium

This book centers on the copy of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus produced in Constantinople around 880 for the emperor Basil I as a gift from the patriarch Photios. The manuscript includes forty-six full page miniatures, most of which do not directly illustrate the text they accompany, but instead provide a visual commentary. Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such communication worked, and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in ninth-century Byzantium.

Author: Leslie Brubaker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/25/1999
Pages: 568
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 12.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780521621533