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Christian religion --- Art --- Bible --- Art, Early Christian. --- 7.033.1 --- Early Christian art --- Christian art and symbolism --- Illustrations. --- Vroegchristelijke kunst --- 7.033.1 Vroegchristelijke kunst --- Art, Early Christian --- Biblia

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Art and Text in Byzantine Culture explores the relationship between images and words, and examines the different types of interactions between pictures and texts in Byzantine art. Byzantium is the only major world power to have experienced political upheaval on a vast scale as a result of an argument about art during the Iconoclasm period. The dynamic between art and text in Byzantium is essential to understanding Byzantine art and culture and allows us to explore the close linking of image and word in a society where the correct relationship between the two was critical to the well-being of the state. Composed of specially-commissioned essays written by an international team of scholars, this volume analyzes how contemporaries wrote about art, how images and text work together in Byzantine art, and how the words written on art works contribute to their meaning.

History of Greece --- Art --- Literature --- Istanbul [city] --- Art, Byzantine. --- Art and literature --- Writing in art. --- Art byzantin --- Art et littérature --- Ecriture dans l'art --- 7.033.2 --- Literature and art --- Literature and painting --- Literature and sculpture --- Painting and literature --- Sculpture and literature --- Aesthetics --- Byzantine art --- Art, Medieval --- Christian art and symbolism --- Kunst van Byzantium; Oud-Rusland; Oud-Armenie --- 7.033.2 Kunst van Byzantium; Oud-Rusland; Oud-Armenie --- Art et littérature --- Art, Byzantine --- Writing in art

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Christianity is a religion of clothing. To become a priest or a nun is to take the cloth. The Christian liturgy is intimately bound with veiling objects and revealing them. Cloths hide the altar, making it all the more spectacular when it is revealed. Fragments of imported silk cradle the relic, thereby giving identity to the dessicated bone. Much of that silk came from the east, meaning that a material of Islamic origin was a primary signifier of sanctity in Christianity. Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing brings together twelve essays about text and textile, about silk and wool, about the formation of identity through fibre. The essays bring to light hitherto unseen material, and for the first time, establish the function of textiles as a culturally rich way to approach the Middle Ages. Textiles were omnipresent in the medieval church, but have not survived well. To uncover their uses, presence, and meanings in the Middle Ages is to reconsider the period spun, draped, clothed, shrouded, and dressed. Textiles in particular were essential to the performance of devotion and of the liturgy. Brightly dyed cloth was a highly visible maker of meaning. While some aspects of culture have been studied, namely the important tapestry industry, as well as some of the repercussions and activities of cloth guilds, other areas of textile studies in the period are yet to be studied. This book brings an interdisciplinary approach to new material, drawing on art history, anthropology, medieval text history, theology, and gender and performance studies. It makes a compelling miscellany exploring the nature of Christianity in the largely uninvestigated field of text and textile interplay.

History of civilization --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Semiotics --- anno 1200-1499 --- Textile fabrics --- Christian art and symbolism --- Textiles et tissus --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Religious aspects. --- Aspect religieux --- Vêtement --- --Textile --- --Moyen âge, --- Religious aspects --- History --- 091.31 "04/14" --- 745.52 --- 745.522 --- 391 "04/14" --- 746.033 --- 7.033 --- 75.033 --- 7.036 --- Iconografie ; christelijke ; Middeleeuwen --- Iconografie ; symboliek ; christelijke --- Textiel ; Middeleeuwen ; christelijke symboliek --- Verluchte handschriften--Middeleeuwen --- Kunstvoorwerpen van textiel. Textielkunst --- Tapijtkunst. Tapisserie. Gobelins --- Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Middeleeuwen --- Textielkunst ; Middeleeuwen --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; Middeleeuwen --- Schilderkunst ; Middeleeuwen --- Iconografie ; epische, mythologische, religieuze voorstellingen --- History. --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Decorative Arts --- 391 "04/14" Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Middeleeuwen --- 745.522 Tapijtkunst. Tapisserie. Gobelins --- 745.52 Kunstvoorwerpen van textiel. Textielkunst --- 091.31 "04/14" Verluchte handschriften--Middeleeuwen --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Cloth --- Fabrics --- Textile industry and fabrics --- Textiles --- Decorative arts --- Dry-goods --- Weaving --- Textile fibers --- Textile --- Moyen âge, 476-1492 --- Textile fabrics - Religious aspects --- Textile fabrics - Europe - History --- Christian art and symbolism - Medieval, 500-1500