The living icon in Byzantinium and Italy : the vita image, eleventh to thirteenth centuries /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Chatterjee, Paroma, 1978-
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Vita icons -- Byzantine Empire. Vita icons -- Italy. Vita icons. Byzantine Empire. Italy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11832666

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ISBN:	9781107784482 1107784484 9781139542401 1139542400 9781107034969 1107034965
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Explores the development and diffusion of the vita image which emerged in Byzantium in the twelfth century and spread to Italy and beyond"-- "Living Icons is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the magnified portrait of a saint framed by scenes from his or her life. The vita icon was used for depicting the most popular figures in the Orthodox calendar and, in the Latin West, was deployed most vigorously in the service of Francis of Assisi. This book offers a compelling account of how this type of image embodied and challenged the prevailing structures of vision, representation, and sanctity in Byzantium and among the Franciscans in Italy between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Through the lens of this format, Paroma Chatterjee uncovers the complexities of the philosophical and theological issues that had long engaged both the medieval East and West, such as the fraught relations between words and images, relics and icons, a representation and its subject, and the very nature of holy presence"--
Other form:	Print version: Chatterjee, Paroma, 1978- Living icon in Byzantinium and Italy 9781107034969

Table of Contents:

The metaphor of the 'living icon'
The saint in the text
The saint in the image
'Wrought by the finger of God'
Depicting Francis' secret
Epilogue : Francis in Constantinople.