ABSTRACT
In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium aims to promote the field of Byzantine epigraphy as a whole, and topics and subjects covered include: Byzantine attitudes towards the inscribed word, the questions of continuity and transformation, the context and function of epigraphic evidence, the levels of formality and authority, the material aspect of writing, and the verbal, visual and symbolic meaning of inscribed texts. The collection is intended as a valuable scholarly resource presenting and examining a substantial quantity of diverse epigraphic material, and outlining the chronological development of epigraphic habits, and of individual epigraphic genres in Byzantium. The contributors also discuss the methodological questions of collecting, presenting and interpreting the most representative Byzantine inscriptional material, and addressing epigraphic material to make it relevant to a wider scholarly community.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|90 pages
After Late Antiquity
chapter 3|22 pages
Reading, viewing and inscribing faith
part II|39 pages
Legibility and readability
part III|63 pages
Church and state
part IV|55 pages
Formal and informal inscriptions in Athens
chapter 10|23 pages
The (in)formality of the inscribed word at the Parthenon
part V|70 pages
Objects, texts and images
part VI|42 pages
Case studies