TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leatherbury,Sean Villareal
TI  - Inscribing faith in late antiquity: between reading and seeing 
T2  - Image, text, and culture in classical antiquity
SN  - 9780429280672
AV  - NA4050.I5 L43 2020
U1  - 247 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Architectural inscriptions
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Decoration and ornament, Architectural
KW  - Writing and art
KW  - Mosaics, Ancient
KW  - Church decoration and ornament
KW  - Jewish decoration and ornament
KW  - Islamic decoration and ornament
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Material texts -- Framing texts, framing belief -- Ekphrasis and experience -- Embedding texts into images -- Embedded prayers -- Reading and seeing faith
N2  - Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300-800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces of worship, and explores how they functioned both textually and visually. These texts not only recorded the names and prayers of the faithful, but were powerful verbal and visual statements of cultural values and religious beliefs, conveying meaning through their words as well as through their appearances. In fact, the two were intimately connected. All of these texts - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and pagan - acted visually, embracing their own materiality as mosaic, paint, or carved stone. Colourful and artfully arranged, the inscriptions framed human relationships with the divine, encouraged responses from readers, and made prayers material. In the first in-depth examination of the inscriptions as words and as images, the author reimagines the range of aesthetic, cultural, and religious experiences that were possible in spaces of worship. Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity is essential reading for those interested in Roman, late antique, and Byzantine material and visual culture, inscriptions and other texts, and religious life in the ancient Mediterranean
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429280672
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -