Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World
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Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World

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Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World

About this book

Inscriptions convey meaning not just by their contents but also by other means, such as choice of script, location, scale, spatial organisation, letterform, legibility and clarity. The essays in this book consider these visual qualities of inscriptions, ranging across the Mediterranean and the Near East from Spain to Iran and beyond, including Norman Sicily, Islamic North Africa, Byzantium, medieval Italy, Georgia and Armenia. While most essays focus on Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, they also look back at Achaemenid Iran and forward to Mughal India. Topics discussed include real and pseudo-writing, multilingual inscriptions, graffiti, writing disguised as images and images disguised as words. From public texts set up on mountainsides or on church and madrasa walls to intimate craftsmen's signatures, barely visible on the undersides of precious objects, the inscriptions discussed in this volume reveal their meanings as textual and visual devices.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781107092419
eBook ISBN
9781316237267
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Ancient Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: Viewing Inscriptions
  10. One. Inscriptions, Royal Spaces and Iranian Identity: Epigraphic Practices in Persia and the Ancient Iranian World
  11. Two. Prayers on Site: The Materiality of Devotional Graffiti and the Production of Early Christian Sacred Space
  12. Three. Erasure and Memory: Aghlabid and Fatimid Inscriptions in North Africa
  13. Four. Textual Icons: Viewing Inscriptions in Medieval Georgia
  14. Five. Pseudo-Arabic 'Inscriptions' and the Pilgrim's Path at Hosios Loukas
  15. Six. Arabic Inscriptions in the Cappella Palatina: Performativity, Audience, Legibility and Illegibility
  16. Seven. Intercession and Succession, Enlightenment and Reflection: The Inscriptional and Decorative Programme of the Qaratay Madrasa, Konya
  17. Eight. Remembering Fernando: Multilingualism in Medieval Iberia
  18. Nine. Displaying the Word: Words as Visual Signs in the Armenian Architectural Decoration of the Monastery of Noravank` (14th century)
  19. Ten. Written in Stone: Civic Memory and Monumental Writing in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa
  20. Eleven. Place, Space and Style: Craftsmen's Signatures in Medieval Islamic Art
  21. Afterword: Re-Viewing Inscriptions
  22. Index