Art and text in Byzantine culture

Abstract

Introduction: art and text in Byzantium Liz James 1. Accomplishing the picture: ekphrasis, mimesis, and martyrdom in Asterios of Amaseia Ruth Webb 2. The rhetoric of buildings in the De Aedificiis of Procopius Jas Elsner 3. Every cliche in the book: the linguistic turn and the text-image discourse in Byzantine manuscripts Leslie Brubaker 4. In the presence of the text: a note on writing, speaking and performing in the Theodore Psalter Charles Barber 5. Image and inscription: pleas for salvation in spaces of devotion Robert S. Nelson 6. Epigrams on icons Bissera V. Pentcheva 7. Eufrasius and friends: on names and their absence in Byzantine art Henry Maguire 8. Echoes of orality in the monumental inscriptions of Byzantium Amy Papalexandrou 9. 'And shall these mute stones speak?': words as art Liz James.

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