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Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot

Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot Book Reviews 373 DENIS SULLIVAN,ELIZABETH FISHER and STRATIS PAPAIOANNOU (Eds), 2012 [The Medieval Mediterranean, volume XCII] Leiden and Boston: Brill xxxv + 473 pp., ill. €177.00/US$243.00 (hardback) ISBN 9789004212442 Alice-Mary Talbot’s influential work has addressed the three themes of “Byzantine women and religious life, sanctity and hagiography, and monasticism and nun- neries” (p. xxi). Accordingly, the 25 papers in this Festschrift are distributed across three categories: “Women” (six), “Icons and Images” (nine), and “Texts, Practices, Spaces” (ten). Approaches range from the translation of primary texts to framing hypotheses about the reception of texts and images. There is remarkably little cover- age of the last few centuries of Byzantium, given that the honoree has often written on the Palaeologan era, but the degree of coherence and balance of content in a Festschrift is understandably somewhat unpredictable. While most of the papers are based on textual research, Talbot is an historian who is mindful of the visual world. Both Talbot’s and the contributors’ work is therefore a useful reminder that Byzantine art cannot be examined fruitfully without a critical awareness of primary texts, despite the heavily religious predisposition of the latter. This issue is highlighted by Claudia Rapp (p. 300) who http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Book Reviews 373 DENIS SULLIVAN,ELIZABETH FISHER and STRATIS PAPAIOANNOU (Eds), 2012 [The Medieval Mediterranean, volume XCII] Leiden and Boston: Brill xxxv + 473 pp., ill. €177.00/US$243.00 (hardback) ISBN 9789004212442 Alice-Mary Talbot’s influential work has addressed the three themes of “Byzantine women and religious life, sanctity and hagiography, and monasticism and nun- neries” (p. xxi). Accordingly, the 25 papers in this Festschrift are distributed across three...
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Book Reviews 373 DENIS SULLIVAN,ELIZABETH FISHER and STRATIS PAPAIOANNOU (Eds), 2012 [The Medieval Mediterranean, volume XCII] Leiden and Boston: Brill xxxv + 473 pp., ill. €177.00/US$243.00 (hardback) ISBN 9789004212442 Alice-Mary Talbot’s influential work has addressed the three themes of “Byzantine women and religious life, sanctity and hagiography, and monasticism and nun- neries” (p. xxi). Accordingly, the 25 papers in this Festschrift are distributed across three categories: “Women” (six), “Icons and Images” (nine), and “Texts, Practices, Spaces” (ten). Approaches range from the translation of primary texts to framing hypotheses about the reception of texts and images. There is remarkably little cover- age of the last few centuries of Byzantium, given that the honoree has often written on the Palaeologan era, but the degree of coherence and balance of content in a Festschrift is understandably somewhat unpredictable. While most of the papers are based on textual research, Talbot is an historian who is mindful of the visual world. Both Talbot’s and the contributors’ work is therefore a useful reminder that Byzantine art cannot be examined fruitfully without a critical awareness of primary texts, despite the heavily religious predisposition of the latter. This issue is highlighted by Claudia Rapp (p. 300) who

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