Product Description: For more than 1000 years Byzantine emperors reigned over a wealthy world. This text surveys the Medieval culture - the bridge between classical antiquity and the Renaissance. It explores all aspects from Caucasus to Constantinople, from pagan Roman portraits to Christian icons. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This masterpiece of Armenian illumination was created in the fourteenth century by monks at the theological school of Gladzor, who copied its text and painted its elaborate cycle of miniatures. Owned at various times by merchants and princes, the Gladzor Gospels is now in the special collections library at the University of California at Los Angeles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Between the third and sixth centuries, the ancient gods, goddesses, and heroes who had populated the imagination of humankind for a millennium were replaced by a new imagery of Christ and his saints. Thomas Mathews explores the many different, often surprising, artistic images and religious interpretations of Christ during this period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These studies exemplify the author's concern to find interpretations of art and architecture that reflect the religious intentions and uses originally involved in their creation. Thus, for example, church architecture is examined for the professional and ceremonial functions of spaces...read more

Product Description: An introduction to the art and history of Armenian manuscript painting, which reveals the degree to which this art form embodied a distinctive aesthetic and religious experience. 88 of the most significant examples of Armenian manuscript illumination are reproduced and extensively discussed...read more

Product Description: This volume, containing over 650 photographs, is a comprehensive photographic documentation of Byzantine ecclsiastical architecture in Istanbul. General views, exterior and interior views, structural details, architectural sculpture and decoration are all included in the first serious attempt to prepare a visual survey in over fifty years...read more

Product Description: The first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct from archaeological, liturgical, and historical sources the ceremonial use of Early Byzantine architecture. The archaeological remains of a dozen preiconoclastic churches in Constantinople are examined, and the characteristic patterns of planning revealed are interpreted in the light of the Early Byzantine liturgy...read more