Byzantine Media Subjects - Glenn A. Peers

Byzantine Media Subjects

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Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2024
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7502-4 (ISBN)
134,65 inkl. MwSt
Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that Byzantine culture was (already) posthuman.


The Byzantine experience reveals the extent to which media like icons, manuscripts, music, animals, and mirrors fundamentally determine humans. In the Byzantine world, representation as such was deeply persuasive, even coercive; it had the power to affect human relationships, produce conflict, and form self-perception. Media studies has made its subject the modern world, but this book argues for media having made historical subjects. Here, it is shown that media long ago also made Byzantine humans, defining them, molding them, mediating their relationship to time, to nature, to God, and to themselves.

Glenn Peers is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at both Syracuse University and the University of Texas at Austin. Among his eight books are, as author, Animism, Materiality, and Museums and Sacred Shock, and, as editor, Byzantine Things in the World. He lives in Bennington, Vermont.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
Zusatzinfo 41 Halftones, black and white; 38 Halftones, color
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 1361 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-5017-7502-2 / 1501775022
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-7502-4 / 9781501775024
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