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Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900

Ildar Garipzanov author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:3rd May '18

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Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900 cover

Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as the sign of the cross, christograms, monograms, and other such devices, are examined against the backdrop of the cultural, religious, and socio-political transition from the late Graeco-Roman world to that of medieval Europe. This monograph is a synthetic study of graphic visual evidence from a wide range of material media that have rarely been studied collectively, including various mass-produced items and unique objects of art, architectural monuments and epigraphic inscriptions, as well as manuscripts and charters. This study promises to provide a timely reference tool for historians, art historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, manuscript scholars, and numismatists.

Provides a rich, dense account of graphic signs and monograms in the Roman world from the fourth to ninth centuries ... Highly recommended. * CHOICE *
Despite the narrow focus that the book's title may seem to imply, this is a work of prodigious scholarship. Historians interested in many facets of late antique and early medieval religion, culture, and politics will find much of value in Garipzanov's compelling study. * Celia Chazelle, Speculum *

ISBN: 9780198815013

Dimensions: 242mm x 164mm x 27mm

Weight: 884g

404 pages