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Item Number: 132064
Title: Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World
Author: Eastmond, Antony
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781107092419
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 25cm., hardcover, 261pp. illus.

Contents: 1. Text, image, memory, and performance: epigraphic practices in Persia and the ancient Iranian world Matthew P. Canepa. 2. Prayers on site: the materiality of devotional graffiti and the production of early Christian sacred space Ann Marie Yasin. 3. Erasure and memory: Aghlabid and Fatimid inscriptions in North Africa Jonathan Bloom. 4. Textual icons: viewing inscriptions in medieval Georgia Antony Eastmond. 5. Pseudo-Arabic 'inscriptions' and the pilgrim's path at Hosios Loukas Alicia Walker. 6. Arabic inscriptions in the Cappella Palatina: performativity, audience, legibility, and illegibility Jeremy Johns. 7. Intercession and succession, enlightenment and reflection: the inscriptional and decorative program of the Qaratay Madrasa, Konya Scott Redford. 8. Remembering Fernando: multilingualism in medieval Iberia Tom Nickson. 9. Displaying the word: words as visual signs in the Armenian architectural decoration of the monastery of Noravank (fourteenth century) Ioanna Rapti. 10. Written in stone: civic memory and monumental writing in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa Stefania Gerevini/ 11. Place, space, and style: craftsmen's signatures in medieval Islamic art Sheila S. Blair. Afterword: re-viewing inscriptions Antony Eastmond.

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