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Item Number: 125358
Title: Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise : Iconographic and Textual Studies on Late Antiquity
Author: van den Hoek, Annewies ; John J. Herrmann, Jr. (eds)
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ISBN: 9789004255388
Description: Leiden: Brill, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 582pp., illus., over 96 plates, most in color. Summary: e essays on late antiquity engage in a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entertainments, pagan cults, mythic heroes, beasts, monsters, and biblical visions are themes dealt with … read moreon the patrician and popular levels. With interpretive supplements from these diverse realms, it is possible to achieve greater insight into the life, attitudes, and thought of Late Antiquity. (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 122)
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