Publications/Apr 11, 2023

Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy, Volume 1

Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy, Volume 1 lead image

Andreas Rhoby and Ida Toth, eds. Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy, volume 1. Brepols, 2023.

The present, inaugural volume includes selected papers from the two panels dedicated to Byzantine Epigraphy held at the XXIII International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Belgrade, August 2016, and the XV International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in Vienna, August/September 2017. The papers, as indeed the events for which they were initially produced, celebrate both the progress and the promise of epigraphic research within medieval and early modern scholarship as a whole.

CONTENTS INCLUDE

Byzantine Epigraphy: Whence and Whither?
Andreas Rhoby and Ida Toth

Space Oddity? A Praepositus Inscribing Power and Appropriating Cityscapes in Theodosian Constantinople
Arkadiy Avdokhin

Der Kaiser als Schutzwall. Epigraphische und topographische Untersuchungen zum Basileios-Epigramm aus Thessaloniki (AP IX 686) und zum spätantiken Kaiserbildnis
Christoph Begass

Epigrafia e società nella Sardegna bizantina (VII-XI secolo). Alcune osservazioni
Salvatore Cosentino

Incorporating a Name in an Image and an Image in a Name. Comparison between Byzantine and Latin Traditions
Estelle Ingrand-Varenne

Language, Identity, and Otherness in Medieval Greece: The Epigraphic Evidence
Sophia Kalopissi-Verti

Greek Letters as scriptura franca: Writing in Local Languages on the Northern Periphery of the Byzantine World
Denis Kashtanov, Maksim Korobov, Vadim Ponaryadov, and Andrey Vinogradov

Word and Image in the Church of the Ascension in Nessebăr. The Role of Inscriptions for the Reconstruction of the Iconographic Programme of 1609
Emmanuel Moutafov

Texts and Their Audiences: some Thoughts on the addressees of Inscriptions in Middle Byzantine Churches in Greece
Giorgos Pallis

Die Mosaikinschrift in Dara/Anastasiupolis aus dem Jahr 514 n. Chr.
Mustafa H. Sayar (with the cooperation of Andreas Rhoby)

An Epigram for the Everyman? Strategies of Commemoration at a Cappadocian Tomb
Anna M. Sitz

Post-Byzantine Inscriptions, Traditions and Legends: Authentic or Fabricated?
Christos Stavrakos and Dimitrios Liakos