New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

Selected Papers
on Iconoclasm and Apocrypha
by Stephen Gerö
This volume contains about 30 reprinted
articles covering the main fields of study of
Stephen Gerö, a renowned specialist in the
Oriental connections of Byzantium and the
early Christian literature in different traditions
of Byzantium and the Christian East. Special
attention is paid to the “afterlife” of the early
Christian and late Jewish pseudepigrapha in
the medieval traditions of Christianity. The whole series of Gerö’s classical articles
on the history and doctrines of the Byzantine Iconoclasm is included.
416p, hardback, 9785901410752, $190.00(s), Axioma, December 2009,
Scripta Ecclesiastica 2.
Colours, Symbols, Worship
The Mission of the Byzantine Artist
by George Galavaris
Whether it is the cult of the Byzantine Emperor or the Eucharistic Liturgy, manifested
in numismatics, illuminated manuscripts, icons, or church lights, the author’s
interests are symbols, forms and their meaning. He investigates their contribution
to worship, to the visual shaping of the Liturgy and how they reveal the freedom
and the mission of the artist in realizing the Unseen in everyday life. The 31 studies
in this volume, published over the course of 40 years, are brought together with an
introduction, annotations and an index. The volume contributes essentially to our
knowledge of the spirituality of the Eastern Church.
440p, 379 illus, hardback, 9781899828685, $300.00(s), Pindar Press, July 2009.
byzantine � late antique studies
Pindar Press – Newly distributed by DBBC!
Studies in Byzantine, Islamic and Near Eastern Silk Weaving
by Anna Muthesius
This volume highlights the fact that similar patterns of selection were at work in the acquisition
of silks by secular and ecclesiastical bodies. These patterns of selection were governed
not only by fashions of the time, but by access to international trade routes leading
to the Great Silk Road linking the Near East to the Mediterranean. The surviving silks prove
that Mediterranean/Near Eastern silk trade flourished continuously and for centuries prior
to the thirteenth century. Above all, the book demonstrates how important it is to assess
the impact of Near Eastern silk manufacture and distribution in relation to Byzantine and
Islamic Mediterranean silk production and trade.
446p, 235 illus, hardback, 9781899828418, $300.00(s), Pindar Press, December 2008.
An Obscure Portrait
Imaging Women’s Reality in Byzantine Art
by Mati Meyer
Recent discussions on Byzantine art have been dominated by the question of representing
realia. Among these, however, the way works of art reflect the daily life
of women have not received much space or attention. The present book studies
various images representing women’s status and her performative tasks, and their
significance from the fourth century to the fall of the Empire, through analysis of
archaeological evidence and works of art. It addresses a wide range of questions,
some pertaining both to pictorial traditions and to their late antique antecedents,
others peculiar to changing and evolving Byzantine culture and mentality. The
book aims to lift a veil from known and less known works of art and to present
the rarely described picture of the daily life of women in Byzantine art over a very
wide chronological span of time, in an effort to expand our knowledge of women
in Byzantium and their realia.
432p, 258 illus, hardback, 9781904597322, $300.00(s), Pindar Press, May 2009.
Adnotationes codicum domini Justiniani
(Summa Perusina)
introduced by Giuliano Crifo and Maria Campolunghi,
with a critical edition by Federico Patetta
The Summa Perusina is a treasure of early medieval jurisprudence, a unique collection
of abstracts of the Justinian Code preserved in the University of Perugia
library since its foundation in 1308. Federico Patetta’s critical edition of the Summa
Perusina first appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, and is here accompanied
by a photographic facsimile of the manuscript itself. Latin text.
2 vols in slipcase, 432p, facsimile reproduction in color, hardback, 9788856400441,
$395.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa, July 2009.
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