Using images in late antiquity /:

Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD. They bring together an international group of scholars who situate the period's visual practices within their political, religious, and social contexts. The contributors present a diverse range of evid...

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Other Authors: Birk, Stine (Editor), Kristensen, Troels Myrup (Editor), Poulsen, Birte (Editor), Liverani, Paolo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD. They bring together an international group of scholars who situate the period's visual practices within their political, religious, and social contexts. The contributors present a diverse range of evidence, including mosaics, sculpture, and architecture from all parts of the Mediterranean, from Spain in the west to Jordan in the east. Contributions span from the depiction of individuals on funerary monuments through monumental epigraphy, Constantine's expropriation and symbolic re-use of earlier monum.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781782972624
1782972625
9781782972648
1782972641
1322027153
9781322027159

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