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Icon and Word : The Power of Images in Byzantium, Icons are traditionally regarded as timeless, motionless, and eternal: windows onto Heaven. But it is not enough to simply wonder at their unchanging portrayal of divinity. How did they work? What did Byzantine culture want icons for? In what ways did Byz, Icon and Word : The Power of Images in Byzantium
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  • Icon and Word : The Power of Images in Byzantium
  • Written by author Antony Eastmond, Liz James, Robin Cormack
  • Published by Ashgate Publishing, Limited, 10/1/2003
  • Icons are traditionally regarded as timeless, motionless, and eternal: windows onto Heaven. But it is not enough to simply wonder at their unchanging portrayal of divinity. How did they work? What did Byzantine culture want icons for? In what ways did Byz
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Introduction: Icon and Word
1 Icon, Idol, Totem and Fetish 3
2 When all that is Gold does not Glitter: On the strange history of looking at Byzantine art 13
3 Icon and Portrait in the Trial of Symeon the New Theologian 25
4 The Power of Inscriptions and the Trouble with Texts 35
5 Art and Lies: Text, image and imagination in the medieval world 59
6 Between Icon and Idol: The uncertainty of imperial images 73
7 The Icon is Dead, Long Live the Icon: The holy image in the Renaissance 87
8 Picturing New Jerusalem 105
9 Bleeding Icons 121
10 Images of the Mother of God in Early Medieval Rome 135
11 Iconic Images of Children in the Church of St. Demetrios, Thessaloniki 157
12 The 'Statuesque Hodegetria' and the Limitations of the Sculpted Icon 173
13 The Migrating Image: Uses and abuses of Byzantine icons in Western Europe 185
14 For the Salvation of a Woman's Soul: An icon of St. Michael described within a medieval Coptic context 205
15 Archimedes into Icon: Forging an image of Byzantium 233
16 The Purple Thread of the Flesh: The theological connotations of a narrative iconographic element in Byzantine images of the Annunciation 261
Select Bibliography 281
Index 297


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