|aImages of the Byzantine world :|bvisions, messages, and meanings : studies presented to Leslie Brubaker /|c[edited by] Angeliki Lymberopoulou.
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|aFarnham, Surrey, England ;|aBurlington, VT :|bAshgate,|cc2011.
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|axxiv, 246 p., [2] leaves of col. plates :|bill., maps ;|c24 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aLeslie Brubaker : biography and published works / Kalliroe Linardou -- Preface / Angeliki Lymberopoulou -- "Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth" : touch and the meaning of Byzantine art / Liz James -- Memories of buildings? : messages in late Antique architectural representations / Maria Cristina Carile -- "And the mother did not spare the baby in her breast," or, Searching for meaning in tecnoctonia and tecnophagy / Dionysios Stathakopoulos -- The anxiety of images : meanings and material objects / Averil Cameron -- Messages, meanings, and metamorphoses : the icon of the Transfiguration of Zarzma / Antony Eastmond -- Messages in context : the reading of sermons in Byzantine churches and monasteries / Mary B. Cunningham -- "The teaching of the ladder" : the message of the heavenly ladder image in Sinai ms. gr. 417 / Kathleen Corrigan and Nancy P. ÚSevÚcenko -- Visions and meanings : personifications in Octateuch cycles / Maja Kominko -- "Signs and symbols of your always victorious reign" : the political ideology and meaning of falconry in Byzantium / Henry Maguire -- Messages in the landscape : searching for Gregory Nazianzenos in Cappadocia (with two excursions to the Canli Kilise) / Robert Ousterhout -- New visions of old meanings : Paris gr. 135 and some anti-Latin visual implications / Kalliroe Linardou -- The Noli Me Tangere icon at the British Museum : vision, message, and reality / Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Lynne Harisson, and Janet Ambers -- Byzantine "visions" of the Ottoman Empire : theories of Ottoman legitimacy by Byzantine scholars after the fall of Constantinople / Konstantinos Moustakas -- Conclusions / Chris Wickham.