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This paper considers the sophisticated interactions between text and image in the narthex of the thirteenth-century monastic church of the Virgin Peribleptos (St Clement) in Ohrid. It examines the formal characteristics of a number of visual and textual poetic utterances—the Nativity hymn, four epigrams and several cryptograms—and suggests that their function is performative and affective, enabling the profound transformation of the monastic viewer. The article argues that by looking at, or “looking with,” the images and texts on the walls of the church, the monks became active participants in a cosmic drama that bridged past and present, secular and sacred.
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