The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium

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The Byzantines surrounded themselves with their saints, invisible but constant companions, who were made visible by dreams, visions, and art. This book aims to analyze the logic of the saint's image in Byzantium, both in portraits and in narrative scenes. It emphasizes on the poems inscribed by the Byzantines upon their icons.

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The Byzantines surrounded themselves with their saints, invisible but constant companions, who were made visible by dreams, visions, and art. This book aims to analyze the logic of the saint's image in Byzantium, both in portraits and in narrative scenes. It emphasizes on the poems inscribed by the Byzantines upon their icons.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 08 May 2000
ISBN 10: 0691050074
ISBN 13: 9780691050072