This volume offers an overview of Byzantine manuscript
illustration, a central branch of Byzantine art and culture. Just
like written texts, illustrations bear witness to Byzantine
material culture, imperial ideology and religious beliefs, as well
as to the development and spread of Byzantine art. In this sense
illustrated books reflect the society that produced and used them.
Being portable, they could serve as diplomatic gifts or could be
acquired by foreigners. In such cases they became "emissaries" of
Byzantine art and culture in Western Europe and the Arabic world.
The volume provides for the first time a comprehensive overview of
the material, divided by text categories, including both secular
and religious manuscripts, and analyses which texts were
illustrated in Byzantium, and how. Contributors are Justine M.
Andrews, Leslie Brubaker, Annemarie W. Carr, Elina Dobrynina, Maria
Evangelatou, Maria Laura Tomea Gavazzoli, Markos Giannoulis, Cecily
Hennessy, Ioli Kalavrezou, Maja Kominko, Sofia Kotzabassi, Stavros
Lazaris, Kallirroe Linardou, Vasileios Marinis, Kathleen Maxwell,
Georgi R. Parpulov, Nancy P. Sevcenko, Jean-Michel Spieser, Mika
Takiguchi, Courtney Tomaselli, Marina Toumpouri, Nicolette S.
Trahoulia, Vasiliki Tsamakda, and Elisabeth Yota.
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