Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus [Hardcover]

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 aftermath of Iconoclasm.This book centres on the copy of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus produced in Constantinople around 880 for the emperor Basil I as a gift from the patriarch Photios. The manuscript includes forty-six full page miniatures, most of which do not directly illustrate the text they accompany, but instead provide a visual commentary.Vision, Image and Illumination in Byzantine Manuscripts deals with how such communication worked, and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in ninth-century Byzantium.This book centres on the copy of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus produced in Constantinople around 880 for the emperor Basil I as a gift from the patriarch Photios. The manuscript includes forty-six full page miniatures, most of which do not directly illustrate the text they accompany, but instead provide a visual commentary.Vision, Image and Illumination in Byzantine Manuscripts deals with how such communication worked, and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in ninth-century Byzantium.This book centers on the copy of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus produced in Constantinople around 880 for the emperor Basil I as a gift from the patriarch Photios. The manuscript includes forty-six full page miniatures, most of which do not directly illustrate the text they accompany, but instead provide a visual commentary. Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such communication worked, and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in ninth-century Byzantium.List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Sitting the miniatures: imagery in the ninth century; 2. The miniatures: internal evidence; 3. The biographical miniatures: toward image as exegesis; 4. Basil I and visual panegyric; l×