ISBN10: 0802066275, ISBN13: 9780802066275, [publisher: University of Toronto Press.] Softcover 272 p., Good condition. -- TYPES OF DOCUMENTS AND SOURCES -- To the extent that a distinction can be drawn between documents and sources, it should be noted that the first category is very poorly represented in the written records of Byzantine art. It includes a number of imperial and ecclesiastical enactments as well as a few inventories, mostly monastic. Other types of documents, such as are familiar to us in Western Europe, e.g. the registers of guilds, financial accounts, contracts, letters of recommendation, artists' wills, are totally lacking. -- The bulk of our material may be loosely called literary and is drawn horn a variety of sources: histories, chronicles, saints' lives, theological Treatises as well as the accounts of foreign travellers. Of particular importance is a genre called the ekphrasis, i.e., the rhetorical description of work of art. This is usually in prose, but may also be in verse (in epic hexameter in the case of Paul the Silentiary, in iambics in the case of Constantine the Rhodian); it may form an independent opuscule or be part of a larger work such as a book of history or even a sermon. Procopius's famous work on the buildings of the emperor Justinian (De sedificiis) consists of a whole string of ekphraseis. In dealing with this senre, it should be borne in mind that it came into vogue in the Imperial Roman period and that it ...
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