Overview
This book centers on the copy of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus produced in Constantinople around 880 for the emperor Basil I as a gift from the patriarch Photios. The manuscript includes forty-six full page miniatures, most of which do not directly illustrate the text they accompany, but instead provide a visual commentary. Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such communication worked, and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in ninth-century Byzantium.
- | Author: Leslie Brubaker
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 11, 2008
- | Number of Pages: 572 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521101816
- | ISBN-13: 9780521101813
