Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Power in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

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Ildar H. Garipzanov, Caroline Goodson, Henry Maguire (eds). Pages: xviii + 394 p. Illustrations:141 b/w, 2 tables b/w. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2017. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-56724-2. Hardback -- SUMMARY In this volume, twelve specialists examine the role of graphic signs such as cross signs, christograms, and monograms in the late Roman and post-Roman worlds and the contexts that facilitated their dissemination in diverse media. The essays collected here explore the rise and spread of graphic signs in relation to socio-cultural transformations during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, focusing in particular on evolving perceptions and projections of authority. They ask whether some culturally specific norms and practices of graphic composition and communication can be discerned behind the rising corpus of graphic signs from the fourth to tenth centuries and whether common features can be found in their production and use across various media and contexts. The contributors to this book analyse the uses of graphic signs in quotidian objects, imperial architectural programmes, and a wide range of other media. In doing so, they argue that late antique and early medieval graphic signs were efficacious means to communicate with both the supernatural and earthly worlds, as well as to disseminate visual messages regarding religious identity and faith, and social power. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Late Antique and Early Medieval Graphic Signs of Authority ILDAR GARIPZANOV Part One. Graphic Signs in Manuscript Culture Earliest Christian Graphic Symbols:Examples and References from the Second/Third Centuries LARRY　W. HURTADO Machina sacra: Optatian and the Lettered Art of the Christogram MICHAEL SQUIRE and CHRISTOPHER WHITTON Notitia dignitatum BEAT BRENK Early Medieval Display Scripts and the Problems of How We See Them DAVID GANZ Part Two. Graphic Signs in Public Spaces and Everyday Material Culture Blessing or Security? Understanding the Christian Symbols of a Monumental Aqueduct Bridge in the Hinterland of Late Antique Constantinople JAMES CROW Cross Graffiti as Physical Means to Christianize the Classical City: An Exploration of Their Function, Meaning, Topographical, and Socio-Historical Contexts INE JACOBS How Did Early Byzantine Ornament Work? HENRY MAGUIRE Christograms on North African Lamps: Considering Context CAROLINE GOODSON Part Three. Graphic Signs on Material Objects of Status and Authority Between Amuletic Ornament and Sign of authority: Christian symbols on Mediterranean Dress Accessories of the Fourth to Sixth Centuries CHRISTOPH EGER Monograms as Graphic Signs of Authority on Early Medieval Coins (from the Mid-Fifth to the Seventh Century) ILDAR GARIPZANOV Memory and Meaning: Graphic Sign and Abstract Symbol in Byzantine Silk Weaving (from the Sixth to Tenth/Eleventh Centuries) ANNA MUTHESIUS Index. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 03108

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