21/04/2022
The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081–c.1350), ed. Foteini Spingou (Cambridge University Press, April 2022)
https://www.cambridge.org/pl/academic/subjects/history/european-history-1000-1450/sources-byzantine-art-history-volume-3
In this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries. The first part uncovers salient aspects of Byzantine artistic production and its aesthetic reception, while the second puts a spotlight on particular ways of expressing admiration and of interpreting of the visual.
CONTENTS:
Part I. Art, Aesthetics and Literature:
Notions of the image in later Byzantium -- Ch. Barber, D. Jenkins, N. Leidholm, D. Angelov, M. Hinterberger, Th. A. Carlson
Artists and patrons -- F. Spingou, I. Drpić, Th. Tsampouras, A.-M. Talbot, Al. Alexakis, A. M. Talbot, A. W. Carr
Eikon and iconography in later Byzantium -- F. Spingou, N. Zagklas, A. W. Carr, M. Duluş, Em. Bourbouhakis, M. Mavroudi, N. Zagklas, A. Walker, M. Jeffreys, E. Jeffreys
Materials -- F. Spingou, E. Cullhed, M. Bazzani, with a note on the author in collaboration with A. Rhoby, S. Steiner, E. Bourbouhakis, M. Grünbart
Seeing spaces: responses to built environment -- F. Spingou, E. Rizos, A. Novikoff, G. P. Majeska, Th. A. Carlson, C. Palombo, L. Mordechai, Sc. Ashley, R. Romanchuk, B. Hostetler, M. W. Herrington, Chr. Timm, S. Simmons, Gr. Dinkova-Bruun, M. Grünbart, E. Jeffreys, A. Walker, M. Mulchahey, D. Manolova and P. Magdalino
Art and devotion -- F. Spingou, A. Riehle, A.-M. Talbot, I. Toth, A. W. Carr, L. Andriollo, J. Featherstone, R. Ceulemans, Br. Hostetler
Memory and art -- F. Spingou, M. Hinterberger, Fl. Leonte, A. M. Talbot, E. Jeffreys, A. Rhoby, J. Lansdowne
Beauty -- F. Spingou, I. Polemis, Al. Alexakis, D. Angelov, M. Duluş, M. Bazzani, D. Penna, V. Marinis, E. Jeffreys, K. Stewart, P. Van Deun, M. Jeffreys, M. Mavroudi, A. Riehle, Chr. Maranci
Part II. Literature, Art and Aesthetics:
Counting down: inventories -- M. Parani, L. Bender, A. M. Talbot, F. Spingou
Describing, experiencing, narrating: the use of ekphrasis (ca. 1081–1330s) -- I. Nilsson, E. Cullhed, B. van den Berg, Ch. Messis, K. Chryssogelos, M. Tomadaki, Prz. Marciniak, Μ. Duluș
Speaking: Ethopoiiae -- E. Jeffreys, K. Warcaba, M. Jeffreys, L. Andriollo, N. Zagklas
Instructing and dedicating: epigrams on works of art -- F. Spingou, N. Zagklas, L. Andriollo, N. Zagklas, L. Safran, E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, A. Rhoby, A. W. Carr, A.-M. Talbot
Reading: book epigrams -- Kr. Demoen, R. Ricceri, R. Meesters, M. Tomadaki, A. W. Carr
Marking: later Byzantine epigraphic culture -- I. Toth, P. Van Deun, S. Kalopissi-Verti, J. Johns, L. Safran, L. Mahoney, A. W. Carr, I. Špadijer, E. Gedevanishvili
Lamenting: tomb epigrams and epitaphs -- F. Spingou, I. Taxidis, A. Rhoby.
