Prayer and power in Byzantine and papal imagery
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Prayer and power in Byzantine and papal imagery
(Collected studies series, CS396)
Variorum , Ashgate, c1993
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Kyoto
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
In English, with one contribution in French
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In his work Dr Walters starts from the premise that the traditional methods used in the study of art history distort our appreciation of Byzantine art. Development can be traced more plausibly, he argues, in terms of the function of the artefacts and the message they were designed to communicate. As well as seeking out the iconographical sources of medieval images, in antique and early Christian art, he is therefore concerned to establish parallels in medieval ceremony and literary sources in order to explain their meaning. The first articles here examine the iconography of local bishops and Dionysius the Areopagite, then concentrate on the imperial and official themes of the promulgation of authority, coronation and marriage. The next section deals with christological and hagiographical themes in the development of Psalter illustration, looking at the possible impact of the Iconoclast era and the changes that can be detected in how the psalms were seen and used.
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