Sacred Shock: Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium

by Glenn Peers

"So a miracle leaves its frame, and one epiphanic detail Illuminates an entire epoch" --Derek Walcott, from Tiepolo's Hound

Art did not exist in Byzantium. As Glenn Peers explains in Sacred Shock, there were, instead, a variety of devotional objects--pectoral crosses, church mosaics, icons, and illuminated manuscripts--regarded as infused with divine presence and used in religious practices. What concerns Peers in this provocative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271024704
• ISBN13: 9780271024707
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.3"