Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture 0691125643, 9780691125640

Writing in gold. Byzantine society and its icons 0195204867

Writing in Gold is a bold and challenging statement about the importance of the visual arts in a largely illiterate soci

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Византийские иконы Синая – Byzantine icons in Sinai (in Russian) 5724800594

Монастырь св. Екатерины на Синае - один из важнейших духовных центров православного Востока. На протяжении многих столет

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Notes on Byzantine Art and Culture in Italy and Especially in Rome 9781463219970

A. J. Frothingham discusses Byzantine influences in the art and architecture of medieval Rome, bringing to light the inf

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Notes on Byzantine Art and Culture in Italy and Especially in Rome 9781607244844, 1607244845

Extract from The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, vol. 10 (1895). A. J. Frothingham

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Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons 9780691252735

A sweeping account of the controversies surrounding the worship of images in the early Byzantine church In 726, the Byz

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Visualizing Community. Art, Material Culture and Settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia 9780884024132

Cappadocia, a picturesque volcanic region of central Anatolia, preserves the best evidence of daily life in the Byzantin

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Science, Jews, and Secular Culture 0691001898, 9780691001890

This remarkable group of essays describes the "culture wars" that consolidated a new, secular ethos in mid-twe

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The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature 9780691197968

No work of Spanish philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized

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Byzantine art and architecture An introduction 0020171034

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The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome 9780674735866

Scholars have long claimed that the Eastern Roman Empire, a Christian theocracy, bore little resemblance to ancient Rome

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