TY - BOOK ID - 69085187 TI - Inscribing faith in late Antiquity : between reading and seeing PY - 2020 SN - 1472459180 042928067X 1000023192 9780429280672 9781000023336 1000023338 9781000023190 9781000023268 1000023265 9781472459183 9781032090757 1032090758 PB - London: Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Architectural inscriptions KW - Decoration and ornament, Architectural KW - Writing and art KW - Mosaics, Ancient KW - Church decoration and ornament KW - Jewish decoration and ornament KW - Islamic decoration and ornament KW - Decoration and ornament, Islamic KW - Muslim decoration and ornament KW - Decoration and ornament KW - Decoration and ornament, Jewish KW - Church ornament KW - Ecclesiastical decoration and ornament KW - Interior decoration KW - Religious articles KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Art and writing KW - Art KW - Architectural decoration and ornament KW - Architecture KW - Stonework, Decorative KW - Architectural design KW - Exterior walls KW - Architectural lettering KW - Building inscriptions KW - House inscriptions KW - Inscriptions, Architectural KW - Inscriptions KW - Lettering KW - History KW - E-books KW - Mosaics, Ancient - Mediterranean Region KW - Writing and art - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 KW - Architectural inscriptions - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69085187 AB - Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300-800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces of worship, and explores how they functioned both textually and visually. These texts not only recorded the names and prayers of the faithful, but were powerful verbal and visual statements of cultural values and religious beliefs, conveying meaning through their words as well as through their appearances. In fact, the two were intimately connected. All of these texts - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and pagan - acted visually, embracing their own materiality as mosaic, paint, or carved stone. Colourful and artfully arranged, the inscriptions framed human relationships with the divine, encouraged responses from readers, and made prayers material. In the first in-depth examination of the inscriptions as words and as images, the author reimagines the range of aesthetic, cultural, and religious experiences that were possible in spaces of worship. Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity is essential reading for those interested in Roman, late antique, and Byzantine material and visual culture, inscriptions and other texts, and religious life in the ancient Mediterranean. ER -