Icon and word : the power of images in Byzantium : studies presented to Robin Cormack

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Icons and Meaning: Icon, idol, fetish and totem, Annabel Wharton When all that is gold does not glitter - on the strange history of looking at Byzantine art, Rico Franses Icon and portrait in the trial of Symeon the New Theologian, Charles Barber The power of inscriptions and the trouble with texts, Karen Boston Art and lies - text, image and imagination in the medieval world, Liz James Between icon and idol - the uncertainty of imperial images, Antony Eastmond The icon is dead, long live the icon - the holy image in the Renaissance, Robert Maniura Picturing New Jerusalem, John Wilkinson. Icons in Context: Bleeding icons, Maria Vassilaki Images of the Mother of God in early medieval Rome, John Osborne Iconic images of children in the church of St Demetrios, Thessaloniki, Cecily Hennessy The statuesque Hodegetria and the limitations of the sculpted icon, John Hanson The migrating image - uses and abuses of Byzantine icons in Western Europe, Barbara Zeitler For the salvation of a woman's soul - an icon of St Michael described within a medieval Coptic context, Lucy-Anne Hunt Archimedes into icon - forging an image of Byzantium, John Lowden The purple thread of the flesh - the theological connotations of a narrative iconographic element in Byzantine images of the Annunciation, Maria Evangelou.

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