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- ISBN 9781789254464
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Oxbow Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Late Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca. 300 to 800 C.E. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture, irrespective of social and economic differences among their users – for instance in mosaics, architectural decoration, and luxury arts (silver plate, textiles, ivories), as well as in everyday objects such as tableware, lamps, and pilgrim vessels. On the other hand, they are also spread in geographically distant regions, mingled with local elements, far beyond the traditional borders of the classical world. At the same time, foreign motifs, especially of Germanic and Sasanian origin, are attested in Roman territories. This volume aims at investigating the reasons behind this seemingly globalised visual culture spread across the Late Antique world, both within the borders of the (former) Roman and (later) Byzantine Empire and beyond, bringing together diverse approaches characteristic of different national and disciplinary traditions. The presentation of a wide range of relevant case studies chosen from different geographical and cultural contexts exemplifies the vast scale of the phenomenon and demonstrates the benefit of addressing such a complex historical question with a combination of different theoretical approaches.
Fabio Guidatto obtained his Ph.D. in Art History in 2011 from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. His post-doctoral career was based first in Pisa, then in London (Warburg Institute) and Berlin (TOPOI Excellence Cluster). His research interests focus on the cultural and intellectual history of the Roman empire and late antiquity, especially in the fields of the history of art, history of religion and history of science. Katharina Meinecke teaches in the Department of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna where she specailises in Roman and Late Antique iconography, the Umayyad pictorial language and globalisation in material culture.
