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The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium - Marian Narratives in Texts and Images (Paperback): Thomas Arentzen, Mary B.... The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium - Marian Narratives in Texts and Images (Paperback)
Thomas Arentzen, Mary B. Cunningham
R957 Discovery Miles 9 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and textual evidence from both Byzantine and Muslim-ruled territories that was intended for a variety of settings and audiences and seeks to explain why Byzantine artisans and writers chose to tell stories about Mary, the Mother of God, in such different ways. Sometimes the variation reflected the theological or narrative purposes of story-tellers; sometimes it expressed their personal spiritual preoccupations. Above all, the variety of aspects that this holy figure assumed in Byzantium reveals her paradoxical theological position as meeting-place and mediator between the divine and created realms. Narrative, whether 'historical', theological, or purely literary, thus played a fundamental role in the development of the Marian cult from Late Antiquity onward.

The Materials and Craft of Early Iconographers (Paperback, 2014 ed.): Mihaela D. Leonida The Materials and Craft of Early Iconographers (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Mihaela D. Leonida
R1,906 Discovery Miles 19 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book describes in detail the materials and techniques used by medieval iconographers. It offers information about the natural sources, the raw materials, the tools and the technologies involved in preparing them. The book allows entry into the secretive world of very knowledgeable and skilled artisans, about which very little is known. Topics covered include raw materials, pigments, binders, solvents, adhesives, inks and varnishes. Special chapters will be dedicated to the fresco technique as practiced by the early iconographers, grinding, painting on glass and the training/apprenticeship of these craftsmen.

The Diagram as Paradigm - Cross-Cultural Approaches (Hardcover): Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David J. Roxburgh, Linda Safran The Diagram as Paradigm - Cross-Cultural Approaches (Hardcover)
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David J. Roxburgh, Linda Safran
R2,365 R1,883 Discovery Miles 18 830 Save R482 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Graphic Devices and the Early Decorated Book (Hardcover): Michelle Brown, Ildar Garipzanov, Benjamin C. Benjamin C. Tilghman Graphic Devices and the Early Decorated Book (Hardcover)
Michelle Brown, Ildar Garipzanov, Benjamin C. Benjamin C. Tilghman; Contributions by Beatrice Kitzinger, Benjamin C. Tilghman, …
R1,800 R1,688 Discovery Miles 16 880 Save R112 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examinations of the use of diagrams, symbols etc. found as commentary in medieval texts. In our electronic age, we are accustomed to the use of icons, symbols, graphs, charts, diagrams and visualisations as part of the vocabulary of communication. But this rich ecosystem is far from a modern phenomenon. Early medievalmanuscripts demonstrate that their makers and readers achieved very sophisticated levels of "graphicacy". When considered from this perspective, many elements familiar to students of manuscript decoration - embellished charactersin scripts, decorated initials, monograms, graphic symbols, assembly marks, diagrammatic structures, frames, symbolic ornaments, musical notation - are revealed to be not minor, incidental marks but crucial elements within the larger sign systems of manuscripts. This interdisciplinary volume is the first to discuss the conflation of text and image with a specific focus on the appearance of various graphic devices in manuscript culture. By looking attheir many forms as they appear from the fourth century to their full maturity in the long ninth century, its contributors demonstrate the importance of these symbols to understanding medieval culture. Michelle P. Brown FSA is Professor Emerita of Medieval Book History at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and was formerly the Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library; Ildar Garipzanov is Professor of Early Medieval History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo; Benjamin C. Tilghman is Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington College. Contributors: Tina Bawden, Michelle P.Brown, Leslie Brubaker, David Ganz, Ildar H. Garipzanov, Cynthia Hahn, Catherine E. Karkov, Herbert L. Kessler, Beatrice Kitzinger, Kallirroe Linardou, Lawrence Nees, Eric Palazzo, Benjamin C. Tilghman.

Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility (Hardcover): Henrike Christiane Lange Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility (Hardcover)
Henrike Christiane Lange
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, Henrike Lange takes the reader on a tour through one of the most beloved and celebrated monuments in the world - Giotto's Arena Chapel. Paying close attention to previously overlooked details, Lange offers an entirely new reading of the stunning frescoes in their spatial configuration. The author also asks fundamental questions that define the chapel's place in Western art history. Why did Giotto choose an ancient Roman architectural frame for his vision of Salvation? What is the role of painted reliefs in the representation of personal integrity, passion, and the human struggle between pride and humility familiar from Dante's Divine Comedy? How can a new interpretation regarding the influence of ancient reliefs and architecture inform the famous "Assisi controversy" and cast new light on the debate around Giotto's authorship of the Saint Francis cycle? Illustrated with almost 200 color plates, this volume invites scholars and students to rediscover a key monument of art and architecture history and to see it with new eyes.

Hildegard Von Bingen - In the Heart of God (Hardcover): Sara Salvadori Hildegard Von Bingen - In the Heart of God (Hardcover)
Sara Salvadori
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Studies in Byzantine Sigillography. Volume 11 (Hardcover): Jean-claude Cheynet, Claudia Sode Studies in Byzantine Sigillography. Volume 11 (Hardcover)
Jean-claude Cheynet, Claudia Sode
R6,926 Discovery Miles 69 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For several years now, sigillography as an independent subarea in the field of Byzantine studies has received increasing attention from both Byzantine studies and related disciplines, because it is the only area still able to provide academia with large amounts of material not previously analysed. The articles of Studies in Byzantine Sigillography deal with all aspects of Byzantine sigillography: presentation of new finds, discussion of new methods, questions of the political and ecclesiastical administration of Byzantinum, prosopography, historical geography, and art historical and iconographical problems. In addition, the volumes contain a loosely arranged list of Byzantine seals, which have been published in essays and auction catalogues, thus enabling those from more obscure publications to be located and identified.

The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople - The Cross-Cultural Biography of a Mediterranean Monument (Paperback):... The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople - The Cross-Cultural Biography of a Mediterranean Monument (Paperback)
Elena N. Boeck
R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Justinian's triumphal column was the tallest free-standing column of the pre-modern world and was crowned with arguably the largest metal equestrian sculpture created anywhere in the world before 1699. The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over the heart of Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired widespread international acclaim. Because all traces of Justinian's column were erased from the urban fabric of Istanbul in the sixteenth century, scholars have undervalued its astonishing agency and remarkable longevity. Its impact in visual and verbal culture was arguably among the most extensive of any Mediterranean monument. This book analyzes Byzantine, Islamic, Slavic, Crusader, and Renaissance historical accounts, medieval pilgrimages, geographic, apocalyptic and apocryphal narratives, vernacular poetry, Byzantine, Bulgarian, Italian, French, Latin, and Ottoman illustrated manuscripts, Florentine wedding chests, Venetian paintings, and Russian icons to provide an engrossing and pioneering biography of a contested medieval monument during the millennium of its life.

Brasses (Paperback): J.S.M. Ward Brasses (Paperback)
J.S.M. Ward
R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and combined a comprehensive approach to knowledge with an emphasis on accessibility. Brasses by J. S. M. Ward was first published in 1912. The book contains an engaging guide to monumental brasses, with information on historical classification and numerous illustrative figures.

Tributes to Adelaide Bennett Hagens - Manuscripts, Iconography, and the Late Medieval Viewer (English, French, Hardcover):... Tributes to Adelaide Bennett Hagens - Manuscripts, Iconography, and the Late Medieval Viewer (English, French, Hardcover)
Pamela A. Patton, Judith K Golden
R4,051 Discovery Miles 40 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Short History of the Middle Ages, Volume II - From c.900 to c.1500, Sixth Edition (Paperback, 6th Revised edition): Barbara... A Short History of the Middle Ages, Volume II - From c.900 to c.1500, Sixth Edition (Paperback, 6th Revised edition)
Barbara Rosenwein
R966 R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Save R50 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world. Volume II ranges from England to China and from West Africa to the Baltic, while never losing sight of the main contours of the period c.900 to c.1500. The lively and informative narrative covers the major developments, political and religious movements, people, saints and sinners, economic and cultural changes, ideals, fears, and fantasies of the period in Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world. A comprehensive new map program, updated for the global reach of this edition, offers a way to visualize the era's enormous political, economic, and religious changes. Line drawings make clear archaeological finds and architectural structures. All of the maps, genealogies, and figures in the book, as well as practice questions and suggested answers, are available at utphistorymatters.com.

Treasure, Memory, Nature - Church Objects in the Middle Ages (Hardcover): Philippe Cordez Treasure, Memory, Nature - Church Objects in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Philippe Cordez
R2,661 Discovery Miles 26 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Shaping Knowledge: The Transmission of the 'Liber Floridus' (Paperback): Hanna Vorholt Shaping Knowledge: The Transmission of the 'Liber Floridus' (Paperback)
Hanna Vorholt
R1,930 Discovery Miles 19 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The encyclopedic compilation Liber Floridus, created by the Flemish canon Lambert of Saint-Omer in the early twelfth century, survives not only in the form of his famous autograph, but also in a considerable number of later manuscripts which transformed the knowledge assembled by him and which became starting points for new appraisals of their texts and images. Shaping Knowledge examines the processes which determined this transfer over the centuries and evaluates the specific achievements of the different generations of scribes and illuminators. Taking account of the full range of manuscripts which transmit material from the Liber Floridus and focusing in more detail on three of them - now in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel, in the Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden and in the Abdijarchief of Tongerlo - it shows that the makers of these manuscripts did not merely select and copy material from the Liber Floridus, but also organized images and texts in new ways, sought out different exemplars for them and embarked on compilatory activities of their own. These relationships at the textual, visual and conceptual levels are lenses through which we can observe the networks subsisting among the manuscripts linked to the Liber Floridus and the much broader group of encyclopedic compilations to which they belong. Sixteen colour plates and one hundred black-and-white figures document the role of the visual and material dimensions of the manuscripts in the processes of transmission.

The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders (Paperback): Mary Dockray-Miller The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders (Paperback)
Mary Dockray-Miller
R1,392 Discovery Miles 13 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the first full-length study of Judith of Flanders (c. 1032-1094), Mary Dockray-Miller provides a narrative of Judith's life through analysis of the books and art objects she commissioned and collected. Organizing her book chronologically by Judith's marriages and commissions, Dockray-Miller argues that Judith consciously and successfully deployed patronage to support her political and marital maneuverings in the eleventh-century European political theater. During her marriage to Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, she commissioned at least four Gospel books for herself in addition to the numerous art objects that she gave to English churches as part of her devotional practices. The multiple treasures Judith donated to Weingarten Abbey while she was married to Welf of Bavaria culminated in the posthumous gift of the relic of the Holy Blood, still celebrated as the Abbey's most important holding. Lavishly illustrated with never before published full-color reproductions from Monte Cassino MS 437 and Fulda Landesbibliothek MS Aa.21, The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders features English translations of relevant excerpts from the Vita Oswinii and De Translatione Sanguinis Christi. Dockray-Miller's book is a fascinating account of this intriguing woman who successfully negotiated the pitfalls of being on the losing side of both the Norman Conquest and the Investiture Controversy.

Mitologia Greca - L'esclusiva Raccolta di Miti e Leggende Greche, un Affascinante Viaggio tra divinita, titani e mostri... Mitologia Greca - L'esclusiva Raccolta di Miti e Leggende Greche, un Affascinante Viaggio tra divinita, titani e mostri sacri dell'antica grecia (Italian, Hardcover)
Cultura Publishing
R858 R747 Discovery Miles 7 470 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Offerenteninschriften auf den fruhchristlichen Mosaikboeden Venetiens und Istriens (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2012): Alfons... Offerenteninschriften auf den fruhchristlichen Mosaikboeden Venetiens und Istriens (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Alfons Zettler
R6,059 Discovery Miles 60 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Im Zuge der kaiserlichen Toleranzedikte und der "Bekehrung" Kaiser Konstantins konnte das Christentum seit dem 4. Jahrhundert starker in die OEffentlichkeit treten und seine Kultbauten und Versammlungsorte nach seinen Bedurfnissen gestalten und ausschmucken. Die prachtigen Mosaikfussboeden der spatantiken Kirchen an der oberen Adria sind grossartige Zeugnisse der fruhchristlichen Archaologie und Kultur. Der Verfasser untersucht diese Pavimente mit ihren Inschriften, den sogenannten Offerenteninschriften: Sie geben Auskunft uber die Namen der Stifter und deren Beitrag zum jeweiligen Bodenmosaik. Im ersten Teil des Bandes bietet der Autor einen historischen UEberblick. Es zeigt sich, dass die Wurzeln des auffalligen wie ratselhaften Brauches, Fussboeden als Bild- und Schriftmedium zu nutzen, bis ins heidnische Altertum zuruckreichen. Im Untersuchungsgebiet Histria et Venetia war der musivische (eingelegte) Bodenschmuck schon sehr stark verbreitet, bevor er in die kirchlichen Gebaude rund um das Mittelmeer seinen Einzug hielt. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit behandelt die kunst- und auch religionsgeschichtlichen Besonderheiten der adriatischen Offerenteninschriften: Sie erlauben Ruckschlusse sowohl auf die spatantike Kirchenorganisation wie auch auf die liturgischen Brauche und Heilsvorstellungen der Glaubigen.

Late Byzantium Reconsidered - The Arts of the Palaiologan Era in the Mediterranean (Hardcover): Andrea Mattiello, Maria Alessia... Late Byzantium Reconsidered - The Arts of the Palaiologan Era in the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Andrea Mattiello, Maria Alessia Rossi
R4,476 Discovery Miles 44 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Late Byzantium Reconsidered offers a unique collection of essays analysing the artistic achievements of Mediterranean centres linked to the Byzantine Empire between 1261, when the Palaiologan dynasty re-conquered Constantinople, and the decades after 1453, when the Ottomans took the city, marking the end of the Empire. These centuries were characterised by the rising of socio-political elites, in regions such as Crete, Italy, Laconia, Serbia, and Trebizond, that, while sharing cultural and artistic values influenced by the Byzantine Empire, were also developing innovative and original visual and cultural standards. The comparative and interdisciplinary framework offered by this volume aims to challenge established ideas concerning the late Byzantine period such as decline, renewal, and innovation. By examining specific case studies of cultural production from within and outside Byzantium, the chapters in this volume highlight the intrinsic innovative nature of the socio-cultural identities active in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean vis-a-vis the rhetorical assumption of the cultural contraction of the Byzantine Empire.

The Alchemy of Paint - Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages (Paperback): Spike Bucklow The Alchemy of Paint - Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages (Paperback)
Spike Bucklow
R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

"The Alchemy of Paint" is a critique of the modern world, which Spike Bucklow sees as the product of seventeenth-century ideas about science. In modern times, we have divorced color from its origins, using it for commercial advantage. Spike Bucklow shows us how in medieval times, color had mystical significance far beyond the enjoyment of shade and hue.

Each chapter demonstrates the mindset of medieval Europe and is devoted to just one color, acknowledging its connections with life in the pre-modern world. Colors examined and explained in detail include a midnight blue called ultramarine, an opaque red called vermilion, a multitude of colors made from metals, a transparent red called dragonsblood, and, finally, gold.

Today, "scarlet" describes a color, but it was originally a type of cloth. Henry VI's wardrobe accounts from 1438 to 1489 show that his cheapest scarlet was 14.2s.6d. and that scarlets could fetch up to twice that price. In the fifteenth century, a mid-priced scarlet cost more than two thousand kilos of cheese or one thousand liters of wine. This expense accounts for the custom of giving important visitors the "red carpet treatment."

The book looks at how color was "read" in the Middle Ages and returns to materials to look at the hidden meaning of the artists' version of the philosopher's stone. The penultimate chapter considers why everyone has always loved gold.

Spike Bucklow is a conservation scientist working with oil paintings at the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge.

Notre-Dame of Amiens - Life of the Gothic Cathedral (Hardcover): Stephen Murray Notre-Dame of Amiens - Life of the Gothic Cathedral (Hardcover)
Stephen Murray
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. Its construction began in 1220, and artistic production in the Gothic mode lasted well into the sixteenth century. In this magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray invites readers to see the cathedral as more than just a thing of the past: it is a living document of medieval Christian society that endures in our own time. Murray tells the cathedral's story from the overlapping perspectives of the social groups connected to it, exploring the ways that the layfolk who visit the cathedral occasionally, the clergy who use it daily, and the artisans who created it have interacted with the building over the centuries. He considers the cycles of human activity around the cathedral and shows how groups of makers and users have been inextricably intertwined in collaboration and, occasionally, conflict. The book travels around and through the spaces of the cathedral, allowing us to re-create similar passages by our medieval predecessors. Murray reveals the many worlds of the cathedral and brings them together in the architectural triumph of its central space. A beautifully illustrated account of a grand, historically and religiously important building from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of time periods, this book offers readers a memorable tour of Notre-Dame of Amiens that celebrates the cathedral's eight hundredth anniversary. Notre-Dame of Amiens is enhanced by high-resolution images, liturgical music, and animations embedded in an innovative website.

Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France - The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie of Brabant (1260-1321) (Hardcover): Tracy... Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France - The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie of Brabant (1260-1321) (Hardcover)
Tracy Hamilton
R3,977 Discovery Miles 39 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For her commissioning and performance of a French vernacular version of the Arabic Tale of the Thousand and One Nights - recorded in one of the most vivid and sumptuous late thirteenth-century manuscripts extant - as well as for her numerous other commissions, Queen Marie de Brabant (1260-1321) was heralded as a literary and intellectual patron comparable to Alexander the Great and Charlemagne. Nevertheless, classic studies of the late medieval period understate Marie's connection to the contemporary rise of secular interests at the French court. My book, Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France: the Artistic Patronage of Marie de Brabant (1260-1321), by reshaping the inquiry into court patronage, posits that the historical record reveals exciting and important contributions Marie de Brabant made to this burgeoning secular court. This emerging importance of the secular and redefinition of the sacred during these last decades of Capetian rule becomes all the more striking when juxtaposed to the pious tone of the lengthy reign of Louis IX (1214-1270), which had ended just four years before Marie's marriage to his son. That Marie often chose innovative materials and iconographies - that would later in the fourteenth century become the norm - to create these images signals her importance in late medieval patronage. These themes of court, culture, politics, and gender reflect and connect the chronological and methodological organization of my fully drafted manuscript. A substantial revision and expansion of my dissertation, the book examines Marie's commissions from her arrival in Paris in 1274 until her death in 1321 and analyzes the dynamics of her patronage and its impact on other women and men of the royal house.

Reading Dante with Images - A Visual Lectura Dantis (Hardcover): Matthew Collins Reading Dante with Images - A Visual Lectura Dantis (Hardcover)
Matthew Collins
R4,193 Discovery Miles 41 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Invisible God - The Earliest Christians on Art (Hardcover): Paul Corby Finney The Invisible God - The Earliest Christians on Art (Hardcover)
Paul Corby Finney
R3,537 Discovery Miles 35 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a study of early Christian (first three centuries C. E.) attitudes toward art. The traditional view is that the early Christians produced no art because they were opposed in principle to visual images. When Christian art finally does appear, it has been considered a popular development and a decline from earlier, more austere spiritual values. Corby Finney here refutes these traditional understandings, through a close examination of the archaeological and literary evidence in its cultural and social context. He finds that it was primarily the Christian belief in the invisibility of God that inhibited the production of images, rather than opposition to images as such. A contributory factor, he believes was the relative invisibility of the Christians themselves within Roman society. Christina art "came out" chiefly when the Christian acquired a legal status and the capacity to own property and to build (and hence to decorate) places of worship. Before this, says Finney, very little differentiated the Christians from society at large, and certainly not outward signs. When they did use decorated material objects (seals and lamps) they drew on symbols already in use. Offering an important corrective to prevailing views about early Christianity, this study will be of great importance not only to scholars and students of Christian theology and history, but to art historians as well.

English Alabaster Carvings and their Cultural Contexts (Hardcover): Zuleika Murat English Alabaster Carvings and their Cultural Contexts (Hardcover)
Zuleika Murat; Contributions by Aleksandra Lipinska, Andrew Kirkman, Christina Welch, Claire Blakey, …
R1,804 R1,692 Discovery Miles 16 920 Save R112 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages. English alabasters played a seminal role in the artistic development of late medieval and early modern Europe. Carvings made of this lustrous white stone were sold throughout England and abroad, and as a result many survived the iconoclasm that destroyed so much else from this period. They are a unique and valuable witness to the material culture of the Middle Ages. This volume incorporates a variety of new approaches to these artefacts, employing methodologies drawn from a number of different disciplines. Its chapters explore a range of key points connected to alabasters: their origins, their general history and their social, cultural, intellectual and devotional contexts. ZULEIKA MURAT is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the History of Medieval Art at the University of Padua. Contributors: Jennifer Alexander, Jon Bayliss, Claire Blakey, Stephanie De Roemer, Rachel King, AndrewKirkman, Aleksandra Lipinska, Zuleika Murat, Luca Palozzi, Sophie Phillips, Nigel Ramsay, Christina Welch, Philip Weller, Kim Woods, Michaela Zoeschg

Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 75 (Hardcover): Colin M. Whiting Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 75 (Hardcover)
Colin M. Whiting
R2,613 Discovery Miles 26 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hell in the Byzantine World 2 Volume Hardback Set - A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern... Hell in the Byzantine World 2 Volume Hardback Set - A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Angeliki Lymberopoulou
R7,326 Discovery Miles 73 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries since the emergence of the Christian faith. These landmark volumes provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. Particular emphasis is placed on images from churches across Venetian Crete, which are comprehensively collected and published for the first time. Crete was at the centre of artistic production in the late Byzantine world and beyond and its imagery was highly influential on traditions in other regions. The Cretan examples accompany rich comparative material from the wider Mediterranean - Cappadocia, Macedonia, the Peloponnese and Cyprus. The large amount of data presented in this publication highlight Hell's emergence in monumental painting not as a concrete array of images, but as a diversified mirroring of social perceptions of sin.

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