Introduction: art and text in Byzantium Liz James; 1. Accomplishing the picture: ekphrasis, mimesis, and martyrdom in Asterios of Amaseia Ruth Webb; 2. The rhetoric of buildings in the De Aedificiis of Procopius Jas Elsner; 3. Every cliché in the book: the linguistic turn and the text-image discourse in Byzantine manuscripts Leslie Brubaker; 4. In the presence of the text: a note on writing, speaking and performing in the Theodore Psalter Charles Barber; 5. Image and inscription: pleas for salvation in spaces of devotion Robert S. Nelson; 6. Epigrams on icons Bissera V. Pentcheva; 7. Eufrasius and friends: on names and their absence in Byzantine art Henry Maguire; 8. Echoes of orality in the monumental inscriptions of Byzantium Amy Papalexandrou; 9. 'And shall these mute stones speak?': words as art Liz James.
Analyzes how the Byzantines wrote about art, how images and text work together and how the words written on Byzantine artworks add meaning.
Liz James is Reader in Art History at the University of Sussex and Associate Director of the AHRC Centre for Byzantine Cultural History. She is the author of Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium.
'... beautifully produced, well edited and a pleasure to read. The nine essays it contains are of high quality, accompanied by copious notes placed at the end of each essay. There are also colour illustrations, an appendix of Greek texts, a selected bibliography, and an index. It is a work aimed at a readership of specialists and advanced students of the Byzantine Empire. Having said this, however, one needs to add that a general public too would find it rewarding reading.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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