The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture

Byzantine art has been an underappreciated field, often treated as an adjunct to the arts of the medieval West, if considered at all. In illustrating the richness and diversity of art in the Byzantine world, this handbook will help establish the subject as a distinct field worthy of serious inquiry.

Essays consider Byzantine art as art made in the eastern Mediterranean world, including the Balkans, Russia, the Near East and north Africa, between the years 330 and 1453. Much of this art was made for religious purposes, created to enhance and beautify the Orthodox liturgy and worship space, as well as to serve in a royal or domestic context. Discussions in this volume will consider both aspects of this artistic creation, across a wide swath of geography and a long span of time.

The volume marries older, object-based considerations of themes and monuments which form the backbone of art history, to considerations drawing on many different methodologies-sociology, semiotics, anthropology, archaeology, reception theory, deconstruction theory, and so on-in an up-to-date synthesis of scholarship on Byzantine art and architecture. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture is a comprehensive overview of a particularly rich field of study, offering a window into the world of this fascinating and beautiful period of art.

Ellen C. Schwartz is Professor of Art History Emerita at Eastern Michigan University, School of Art & Design.

Introduction -- Ellen C. Schwartz

APPROACHING BYZANTINE ART

1. New Approaches in the Study of Byzantine Art and Architecture: Search for Ultimate Sources of the Iconic Image -- Thomas F. Mathews
2. Byzantine Art and Perception -- Bissera Pentcheva
3. Spolia in Byzantine Art and Architecture -- Bente Kiilerich
4. The Icon -- Rebecca W. Corrie
5. Issues of Iconoclasm in Byzantine Art -- Leslie Brubaker
6. Magic and Byzantine Art -- Jacqueline Tuerk-Sponberg
7. Personal Adornment and the Expression of Identity in Byzantium -- Alicia Walker
8. Secular Arts of Byzantium -- Maria Parani
9. The Imperial Arts -- Benjamin Anderson
10. Private Collecting and the Art Market for Byzantine Artifacts -- Christian Schmidt
11. The Byzantine Arts and Byzantine Literature -- Henry Maguire
12. Armenia -- Christina Maranci
13. Georgia -- Zaza Skhirtladze
14. Islamic States & the Middle East -- Erica Cruikshank Dodd
15. Looking Westward: Cyprus/Crusader States/Italy and Western Europe -- Maria Georgopoulou
16. Beyond the Boundaries of the Empire: Reception of Byzantine Art and Architecture -- Ljubomir Milanovi
17. ?Byzance apre?s Byzance? and ?Post-Byzantine? Art from the Late Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century -- Henry David Schilb
18. Living Byzantium, ?the artifice of eternity?-Barrie Bullen

THE REALIA OF BYZANTINE ART

19. Archaeology: Sites and Approaches -- Eric A. Ivison
20. Byzantine Religious Architecture -- Marina Mihaljevi
21. Devotional Practice and the Development of the Byzantine Church -- Neboj?a Stankovi?
22. Secular Architecture, Domestic -- Carolyn S. Snively
23. Secular Architecture, Military -- Stavros I. Arvanitopoulos
24. Acceptance and Adaptation of Byzantine Architectural Types in the ?Byzantine Commonwealth? -- Mark J. Johnson
25. Mosaics -- Liz James
26. Early Byzantine Wall Painting -- Elizabeth S. Bolman
27. Monumental Painting in Byzantium, 843-1453 -- Sharon E. J. Gerstel
28. Decoration of Structures-Stone Sculpture -- Sarah T. Brooks
29. Illustrated Religious Manuscripts -- Susan Madigan McCombs
30. Byzantine Secular Manuscript Illumination -- Christine Havice
31. Liturgical Objects -- Holger A. Klein
32. Bronze and Copper Icons -- Ellen C. Schwartz
33. Amulets, Crosses and Reliquaries -- Brigitte Pitarakis
34. Byzantine Ivories and Steatites -- Carolyn L. Connor
35. Byzantine Ceramics -- Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi
36. Anastassios Antonaras -- Byzantine Glass
37. Byzantine Jewelry and Enamels -- Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie
38. Textile Media in Byzantium -- Warren T. Woodfin