Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium

by Leslie Brubaker

Book Overview

The Byzantines used imagery to communicate a wide range of issues. In the context of Iconoclasm - the debate about the legitimacy of religious art conducted between c. AD 730 and 843 - Byzantine authors themselves claimed that visual images could express certain ideas better than words. Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521621534
• ISBN13: 9780521621533
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 12.0"