Pottery, pavements, and paradise : iconographic and textual studies on late antiquity /
These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the divers...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013.
Series:
Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements
122.
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004308961.
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Call Number: N7832 .H62 2013
| Summary: | These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entertainments, pagan cults, mythic heroes, beasts, monsters, and biblical visions are themes dealt with on the patrician and popular levels. With interpretive supplements from these diverse realms, it is possible to achieve greater insight into the life, attitudes, and thought of Late Antiquity. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 582 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-459) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004256934 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |