Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries. Edited by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Derek Krueger. London: Routledge, 2017. xvii + 312 pp. $160 hardback; $57.95 e-book.
Abstract:Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Power in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages examines the religious and political power communicated in late antique and early medieval graphic signs (third through tenth centuries), including christograms, monograms, carmina figurata, and the sign of the cross, which appear in a variety of media from coins, jewelry, and lamps to manuscripts, monumental inscriptions, and mosaics. As Ildar Garipzanov indicates in the introduction, the authors employ the term "graphic s… Show more
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