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04399aam a22005178i 4500 001 96CCF768246D11E5A97E42B6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150707010042 008 140922s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014032617 020 $a 1107092418 (hardback) 020 $a 9781107092419 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)891369496 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d IUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a aw----- $a aw----- 050 00 $a CN77 $b .V54 2015 082 00 $a 929/.5 $2 23 084 $a ART015060 $2 bisacsh 245 00 $a Viewing inscriptions in the late antique and medieval world / $c edited by Antony Eastmond (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London). 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2015. 300 $a xvii, 261 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 26 cm 520 2 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Viewing inscriptions / Antony Eastmond -- 1. Inscriptions, royal spaces and Iranian identity : epigraphic practices in Persia and the ancient Iranian world / Matthew P. Canepa -- 2. Prayers on site : the materiality of devotional graffiti and the production of early Christian sacred space / Ann Marie Yasin -- 3. Erasure and memory : Aghlabid and Fatimid inscriptions in North Africa / Jonathan Bloom -- 4. Textual icons : viewing inscriptions in medieval Georgia / Antony Eastmond -- 5. Pseudo-Arabic "inscriptions" and the pilgrim's path at Hosios Loukas / Alicia Walker -- 6. Arabic inscriptions in the Cappella Palatina : performativity, audience, legibility, and illegibility / Jeremy Johns -- 7. Intercession and succession, enlightenment and reflection : the inscriptional and decorative program of the Qaratay Madrasa / Konya Scott Redford -- 8. Remembering Fernando : multilingualism in medieval Iberia / Tom Nickson -- 9. Displaying the word : words as visual signs in the Armenian architectural decoration of the monastery of Noravank (fourteenth century) / Ioanna Rapti -- 10. Written in stone : civic memory and monumental writing in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa Stefania Gerevini -- 11. Place, space, and style : craftsmen's signatures in medieval Islamic art / Sheila S. Blair -- Afterword: Re-viewing inscriptions / Antony Eastmond. 650 0 $a Inscriptions $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Visual communication $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Civilization, Ancient $v Sources. 650 0 $a Civilization, Medieval $v Sources. 651 0 $a Mediterranean Region $x Antiquities. 651 0 $a Middle East $x Antiquities. 650 7 $a ART / History / Ancient & Classical. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Antiquities. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810745 650 7 $a Civilization, Ancient. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862946 650 7 $a Civilization, Medieval. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00863049 650 7 $a Inscriptions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00973837 650 7 $a Visual communication. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01167997 651 7 $a Mediterranean Region. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239752 651 7 $a Middle East. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01241586 648 7 $a To 1500 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Sources. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423900 700 1 $a Eastmond, Antony, $d 1966- $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213014202.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=96CCF768246D11E5A97E42B6DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search