Byzantine Materiality /

Byzantine Materiality / / ed. by Evan Freeman, Roland Betancourt.

This volume explores the power of matter and materials in the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium. Recent attention to matter as dynamic and meaningful constitutes an emerging, interdisciplinary field of inquiry known as materiality, new materialism, or the material turn. Materials can be...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Barber, Charles,
Betancourt, Roland,
Cutler, Anthony,
Freeman, Evan,
Leatherbury, Sean V.,
Prance, Harry,
Taronas, Katherine,
Vikan, Gary,
Walker, Alicia,
Weyl Carr, Annemarie,
HerausgeberIn:
Betancourt, Roland,
Freeman, Evan,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Sense, Matter, and Medium : New Approaches to Medieval Literary and Material Culture , 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVII, 299 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Materiality of Charis in Early Byzantium
  • 2 The Animate Floor in Early Byzantium: Glass and Gold
  • 3 Early Christian and Byzantine Bread Stamps: An Ecology of Matter and Form
  • 4 Whence Agency?
  • 5 Miniature Materials, Major Monuments: Concrete Connections and Concrete Histories
  • 6 Materiality and Metonymy: Seeing the Eucharist through Stone and Glass in the Middle Byzantine Liturgy
  • 7 Being Material, Material Being: Ivory and Ontology
  • 8 The Place of Materiality in Byzantine Thought
  • 9 Icon, Eucharist, Relic: Negotiating the Division of Sacred Matter in Byzantium
  • 10 Icons, Relics, and the Substance of Things Half Seen
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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