Thesis
Inscribed within the image: the visual character of early Christian mosaic inscriptions
- Abstract:
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Between the fourth and the seventh centuries CE, Christian patrons erected thousands of churches, chapels, and monasteries in cities and villages across the Mediterranean, decorating the apses, walls and floors of many of these structures with figural and geometric mosaics. These late antique Christian mosaics have been studied for their iconography, their Graeco-Roman components, and as evidence for the religious beliefs of newly-Christian patrons. However, art historians largely have ign...
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+ Corpus Christi College; Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research
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Leatherbury, S
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2012
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:11456
- Deposit date:
- 2015-05-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Leatherbury, S
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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