Description
Book SynopsisArt did not exist in Byzantium. Devotional objects - pectoral crosses, church mosaics, icons, and illuminated manuscripts - were regarded as infused with divine presence and used in religious practices. This book examines the means by which the relationship between the divine and the human was made manifest through crafted, material objects.
Trade Review“This is a book that has the potential to change our understanding of Byzantine art and how it worked.”
—Charles Barber,Notre Dame
“Sacred Shock is a significant and scholarly contribution that will both invigorate and stir controversy within its primary field, and be read and understood by those beyond.”
—John Osborne,University of Victoria
“This is a book which has the potential to change our understanding of Byzantine art and how it worked.”
—Charles Barber,University of Notre Dame
“Sacred Shock is a fine book, and one that will stimulate us to rethink the way we look at Byzantine Art.”
—Lesley Jessop RACAR
“Sacred Shock is impeccably well documented and up-to-date in its references.”
—Henry Maguire Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
“Like the immaterial angels, Peers’s rather abstract frames mediate the viewer’s experience beyond the facile, more tangible realities of the surface meanings we encounter elsewhere.”
—Anne McLanan CAA Reviews
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: The Great Age of the Frame
1. The Crucifixion Contained and Containing
2. The Bloody Page in the Chludov Psalter
3. Gregory of Nazianzus as Twelfth-Century Paradigm
4. Saint George and His Iconic Bodies
5. Silver Cladding and the Assimilation of Bodies and Faces
Epilogue: The Body Framing
Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
