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The Material and the Ideal
Essays in Medieval Art and Archaeology in Honour of Jean-Michel Spieser
Series: - The Medieval Mediterranean, Volume: 70
Reflecting the diverse interests of Jean-Michel Spieser, his colleagues, students and friends contribute papers focused on topics ranging from the changing role of the apse and the layout of late antique basilicas to holy relics said to have been brought from Constantinople. Many of the articles address the nature and impact of specific media - goldsmiths' work, ivory and ceramics - while a group of highly original, broader studies is devoted to such larger issues as ritual display in the tenth century, the metaphorical significance of pottery and an interrogation of the supposed influence of Byzantine icons on Western medieval art. Throughout, the achievement of the authors is to move from concrete observations of particular objects to the larger meaning they held for those who commissioned and made use of them.
Anthony Cutler is the Evan Pugh Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania State University. He has published extensively on Late Antique and Byzantine art, with a special concentration on ivory carving.
Arietta Papaconstantinou is currently Marie Curie Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University. She is the author of Le culte des saints en Ãgypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (CNRS, 2001) and of various articles on aspects of late antique and early Islamic social history and material culture.
Arietta Papaconstantinou is currently Marie Curie Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University. She is the author of Le culte des saints en Ãgypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (CNRS, 2001) and of various articles on aspects of late antique and early Islamic social history and material culture.
1. Anthony Cutler: The Material and the Ideal: An Introduction
2. Beat Brenk: Zur Apsis als Bildort
3. Arietta Papaconstantinou: Divine or Human? Some Remarks on the Design and Layout of Late Antique Basilicas
4. Etleva Nallbani: Urban and Rural Mortuary Practices in Early Medieval Illyricum. Some General Considerations
5. Brigitte Pitarakis: Lâorfèvre et lâarchitecte: Autour dâun groupe dâedifices constantinopolitains du VIe siècle
6. Jeffrey Featherstone: Di j e[ndeixin: Display in Court Ceremonial (De Cerimoniis II,15)
7. Anthony Cutler and Nancy Patterson Å evÄenko: A Recently Discovered Ivory of St. Ignatios and the Lions
8. Ivana JetviÄ: Le nouvel ordre du monde ou lâimage du cosmos à Lesnovo
9. Sharon E. J. Gerstel: The Sacred Vessel and the Measure of a Man
10. Maria Parani: On the Personal Life of Objects in Medieval Byzantium
11. Véronique François: Des potiers de Nicée aux faïenciers dâIznik: tradition maintenue ou fausse continuité?
12. Elisabeth Yota: Un tetraévangile provincial dâorigine syro-palestinienne: Florence, Bibliothèque Laurentienne Conv. Soppr. gr. 160
13. Jannic Durand: Une prétendue relique de Constantinople: la âVéroniqueâ de Corbie
14. Jean Wirth: Ã propos des influencs byzantines sur lâart du Moyen Ãge occidental
2. Beat Brenk: Zur Apsis als Bildort
3. Arietta Papaconstantinou: Divine or Human? Some Remarks on the Design and Layout of Late Antique Basilicas
4. Etleva Nallbani: Urban and Rural Mortuary Practices in Early Medieval Illyricum. Some General Considerations
5. Brigitte Pitarakis: Lâorfèvre et lâarchitecte: Autour dâun groupe dâedifices constantinopolitains du VIe siècle
6. Jeffrey Featherstone: Di j e[ndeixin: Display in Court Ceremonial (De Cerimoniis II,15)
7. Anthony Cutler and Nancy Patterson Å evÄenko: A Recently Discovered Ivory of St. Ignatios and the Lions
8. Ivana JetviÄ: Le nouvel ordre du monde ou lâimage du cosmos à Lesnovo
9. Sharon E. J. Gerstel: The Sacred Vessel and the Measure of a Man
10. Maria Parani: On the Personal Life of Objects in Medieval Byzantium
11. Véronique François: Des potiers de Nicée aux faïenciers dâIznik: tradition maintenue ou fausse continuité?
12. Elisabeth Yota: Un tetraévangile provincial dâorigine syro-palestinienne: Florence, Bibliothèque Laurentienne Conv. Soppr. gr. 160
13. Jannic Durand: Une prétendue relique de Constantinople: la âVéroniqueâ de Corbie
14. Jean Wirth: Ã propos des influencs byzantines sur lâart du Moyen Ãge occidental
General readers and specialists in Late Antique, Byzantine and Western Medieval art and archaeology.