Art & Architecture
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Colours, Symbols, Worship: The Mission of the Byzantine Artist [Hardback]
George Galavaris (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828685
Published by : Pindar Press
Trained as an archaeologist and art historian and being a practising painter, Professor Galavaris has been able to relate diverse disciplines in his work, as shown by the wide range of his numerous publications. He moves from the ... .... Learn More -
Pilgrimage in Early Christian Jordan: A Literary and Archaeological Guide [Paperback]
Burton MacDonald (Author)
Regular Price: £26.00
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ISBN: 9780977409495
Published by : Oxbow Books
An interest in places of pilgrimage is very much a part of the life of many people in the modern world. For Christians, it is the Holy Land that holds specific interest - the area where the events described in the Bible, in both the Old and the... .... Learn More -
Butrint 3: Excavations at the Triconch Palace [Hardback]
William Bowden (Editor); Richard Hodges (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781842179802
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Volume: 3
This engaging and well-illustrated volume describes the excavations of a large urban sector, the so-called Triconch Palace, of the Adriatic seaport of Butrint. In so doing it adds to the new paradigm for the development of Roman towns in the M... .... Learn More -
'Intelligible Beauty': Recent Research on Byzantine Jewellery [Paperback]
Chris Entwistle (Editor); Noel Adams (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780861591787
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 178
The field of Byzantine jewellery (4th-15th centuries) is a rapidly expanding one and a large amount of important research has been conducted within the last ten years, both by scholars on the continent and in America. The intention of the confe... .... Learn More -
An Obscure Portrait: Imaging Women's Reality in Byzantine Art [Hardback]
Rudolf Meyer (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597322
Published by : Pindar Press
Recent discussions on Byzantine art have been dominated by the question of representing realia . Among these, however, the way works of art reflect the daily life of women have not received much space or attention.The present book studi... .... Learn More -
Byzantine Art: Recent Studies [Hardback]
Colum Hourihane (Editor)
Regular Price: £53.00
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ISBN: 9780866984263
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Stretching from Russia to the Mediterranean, the Byzantine world encompasses a multitude of distinct styles and areas, many of which are examined in this volume. Written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, the studies deal with the ... .... Learn More -
Saving the Holy Sepulchre: How Rival Christians Came Together to Rescue Their Holiest Shrine [Paperback]
Raymond Cohen (Author)
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ISBN: 9780195189667
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the mother of all the churches, erected on the spot where Jesus Christ was crucified and rose from the dead and where every Christian was born. In 1927, Jerusalem was struck by a powerful earthquake, and for dec... .... Learn More -
Christian Art [Hardback]
Rowena Loverance (Author)
Regular Price: £20.00
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9780714150536
Published by : British Museum Press
Drawing on the vast collections of the British Museum, Rowena Loverance considers Christian art as a global phenomenon, asking how art is adapted to Christian concerns, how it fulfills religious functions, and examines the full range of symboli... .... Learn More -
Solomon's Temple: Myth and History [Hardback]
William J. Hamblin (Author)
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ISBN: 9780500251331
Published by : Thames and Hudson
This book looks principally not at the Temple as a building or archaeological site, although such details as we have of the physical makeup of the first and second temples are thoroughly examined, but rather at the Temple as an id... .... Learn More -
Ritual and Art: Byzantine Essays for Christopher Walter [Hardback]
P. Armstrong (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781899828623
Published by : Pindar Press
A Festschrift for Christopher Walter featuring studies on ritual and art in the Byzantine church. Subjects include: the Creation of the Marginal Psalter; Early Byzantine enamel in France; Byzantine Imperial Communion Ritual; the miniatures of a... .... Learn More
