Byzantine Things in the World Menil Publications the publication features photographs of

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and early modern murals and icons of Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean Levant

Byzantine Things in the World Menil Publications the publication features photographs ofThis enlightening book makes an object based argument to overturn the normative understanding of Byzantine art through material investigation, historical recovery, and hermeneutic clearing; it argues that art is the wrong category for objects made by and for Medieval Greek Christians. Volume editor and principal essayist Glenn Peers proposes that Byzantine thinkers viewed and experienced things like clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of