Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations (Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032174641 ISBN 13: 9781032174648

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium aims to promote the field of Byzantine epigraphy as a whole, and topics and subjects covered include: Byzantine attitudes towards the inscribed word, the questions of continuity and transformation, the context and function of epigraphic evidence, the levels of formality and authority, the material aspect of writing, and the verbal, visual and symbolic meaning of inscribed texts. The collection is intended as a valuable scholarly resource presenting and examining a substantial quantity of diverse epigraphic material, and outlining the chronological development of epigraphic habits, and of individual epigraphic genres in Byzantium. The contributors also discuss the methodological questions of collecting, presenting and interpreting the most representative Byzantine inscriptional material, and addressing epigraphic material to make it relevant to a wider scholarly community.

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About the Author

Marc D. Lauxtermann, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, Exeter College, University of Oxford

Ida Toth, University Research Lecturer and Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032174641
• ISBN 13: 9781032174648
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Lauxtermann Marc, Toth Ida