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Art and text in Byzantine culture
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Art and text in Byzantine culture

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Introduction : art and text in Byzantium / Liz James
Accomplishing the picture : ekphrasis, mimesis and martyrdom in Asterios of Amaseia / Ruth Webb
The rhetoric of buildings in the De Aedificiis of Procopius / Jaś Elsner
Every cliché in the book : the linguistic turn and the text-image discourse in Byzantine manuscripts / Leslie Brubaker
In the presence of the text : a note on writing, speaking and performing in the Theodore psalter / Charles Barber
Image and inscription : pleas for salvation in spaces of devotion / Robert S. Nelson
Epigrams on icons / Bissera V. Pentcheva
Eufrasius and friends : on names and their absence in Byzantine art / Henry Maguire
Echoes of orality in the monumental inscriptions of Byzantium / Amy Papalexandrou
'And shall these mute stones speak?' : text as art / Liz James.

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