Dumbarton Oaks Papers 53 (1999)

Symposium on Aesthetics and Presentation in Byzantine Literature, Art and Music

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John Duffy
Embellishing the Steps: Elements of Presentation and Style in the Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus

A. R. Littlewood
The Byzantine Letter of Consolation in the Macedonian and Komnenian Periods

Tomas Hägg
Photius as a Reader of Hagiography: Selection and Criticism

Ruth Webb
The Aesthetics of Sacred Space: Narrative, Metaphor and Motion in Ekphraseis of Church Buildings

Alice-Mary Talbot
Epigrams in Context: Metrical Inscriptions on Art and Architecture of the Palaiologan Era / Plates

Margaret Alexiou
Ploys of Performance: Games and Play in the Ptochoprodromic Poems

Panagiotis A. Agapitos
Dreams and the Spatial Aesthetics of Narrative Presentation in Livistros and Rhodamne

Nancy P. Sevcenko
The Vita Icon and the Painter as Hagiographer / Plates

Cynthia Hahn
Narrative on the Golden Altar of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan: Presentation and Reception / Plates

Henry Maguire
The Profane Aesthetic in Byzantine Art and Literature / Plates

Christian Hannick
Exégèse, typologie et rhétorique dans l'hymnographie byzantine

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Miscellaneous Articles

Antony Eastmond
Narratives of the Fall: Structure and Meaning in the Genesis Frieze at Hagia Sophia, Trebizond / Plates

Mark J. Johnson
The Lost Royal Portraits of Gerace and Cefalù Cathedrals / Plates

George C. Maniatis
Organization, Market Structure, and Modus Operandi of the Private Silk Industry in Tenth-Century Byzantium

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Fieldwork Report

C. S. Lightfoot et al.
The Amorium Project: The 1997 Study Season / Plates

Constantinople: The Fabric of the City: Dumbarton Oaks Symposium 1998



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