Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium

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By: Gary Vikan

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Hardcover | 29 October 2003

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In these studies Gary Vikan has opened new perspectives on the daily life and material culture of Late Antiquity - more specifically, on icons and relics, and on objects revealing of the world of pilgrimage, the early cult of saints, and marriage. He contextualizes these familiar categories of object in the patterns of belief and ritual extracted from contemporary texts and the objects themselves, in order to understand their meaning within the everyday lives of those by whom and for whom they were made. The studies give a nuanced delineation of the inherently ambiguous boundary between conventional religion and magic, noting repeatedly those instances wherein the two are invoked in the same breath (and by way of the same art object), toward the same end. From this historically constructed matrix of art, belief, and ritual, the author derives an anthropologically defined paradigm of charisma and pilgrimage (applied in one essay, as an intriguing parallel, to deconstructing the world of a contemporary secular "saint," Elvis Presley).

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'Dr Vikan ... has been an innovator in opening up fields of interest in Byzantine art, notably in pilgrimage and the history of the icon. His papers are full of important juxtapositions of objects and ideas... At a time when 'icon' has become the most over-used word in the English language, Dr Vikan offers a very refreshing set of 'ruminations'.' The Art Newspaper 'A must for all libraries with research collections on Christian art.' International Review of Biblical Studies 'These are the sorts of writings that can spark the interest of undergraduates, graduates, and mature scholars alike.' The Catholic Historical Review

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Introduction	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Sacred Image, Sacred Power (Icon. Four Essays, ed. Gary Vikan. Washington, D.C.: The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 1988, pp. 6-19)	p. 1
Icons and Icon Piety in Early Byzantium (Byzantine East, Latin West. Art-Historical Studies in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann, ed. C. Moss and K. Kiefer. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, 1995, pp. 569-576)	p. 1
Ruminations on Edible Icons: Originals and Copies in the Art of Byzantium (Studies in the History of Art 20. Washington, D.C., 1989, pp. 47-59)	p. 1
Graceland as Locus Sanctus (Elvis + Marilyn: 2x Immortal, ed. G. DePaoli. New York: Rizzoli, 1994, pp. 150-167)	p. 1
Byzantine Pilgrims' Art (Heaven on Earth. Art and the Church in Byzantium, ed. L. Safran. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998)	p. 229
Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Devotionalia as Evidence of the Appearance of Pilgrimage Shrines (Akten des XII Internationalen Kongresses fur Christliche Archaologie (Bonn, 22-28 September 1991). Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum Erganzungsband 20/1. Munster, 1995)	p. 377
Pilgrims in Magi's Clothing: The Impact of Mimesis on Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art (The Blessings of Pilgrimage, ed. R. Ousterhout. Urbana/Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990)	p. 97
'Guided by Land and Sea': Pilgrim Art and Pilgrim Travel in Early Byzantium (Tesserae. Festchrift fur Josef Engemann (Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum Erganzungsband 18). Munster: Aschendorff, 1991)	p. 74
Art, Medicine, and Magic in Early Byzantium (Dumbarton Oaks Papers 38. Washington, D.C., 1984)	p. 65
Art and Marriage in Early Byzantium (Dumbarton Oaks Papers 44. Washington, D.C., 1990)	p. 145
Two Byzantine Amuletic Armbands and the Group to which They Belong (The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 49/50. Baltimore, 1991/92)	p. 33
Two Unpublished Pilgrim Tokens in the Benaki Museum and the Group to which They Belong ([characters not reproducible]. Athens, 1994)	p. 341
Early Christian and Byzantine Rings in the Zucker Family Collection (The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 45. Baltimore, 1987)	p. 32
The Trier Ivory, Adventus Ceremonial, and the Relics of St. Stephen (In collaboration with Kenneth G. Holum) (Dumbarton Oaks Papers. Washington, D.C., 1979)	p. 114
Meaning in Coptic Funerary Sculpture (Studien zur Fruhchristlichen Kunst II. Wiesbaden, 1986)	p. 15
Index	p. 1
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