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  • Saints

    Faith without Borders

    Edited by Françoise Meltzer, Jas Elsner ...
    While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond

    Papers from the 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

    Edited by Ine Jacobs, Jaś Elsner, Julia M. H. Smith ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    The theoretical framework known as Material Religion has emerged as a vibrant and profoundly influential approach within religious studies over the past two decades. Originating in the first decade of the 21st century from currents within cultural anthropology, Material Religion challenges a foundational assumption of much modern Western thought: that matter and spirit — materiality and religion — ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Amarāvatī

    Art and Buddhism in Ancient India

    by Jaś Elsner ...
    This exploration of the exceptional Buddhist stupa (reliquary mound) at Amarāvatī, one of ancient India’s most extraordinary monuments, presents a fresh perspective on the rich visual culture of ancient South Asia viewed through the lens of art history, connecting the stupa’s artistic innovations with advancements in Buddhist philosophy and rituals. Jaś Elsner offers new insights into early ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art

    Edited by Jas' Elsner, Milette Gaifman, Nathaniel B. Jones ...
    Series Book 40 - Yale Classical Studies
    The artistic category of relief has long dominated scholarly discussions of ancient Greco-Roman art for good reason: images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the rise of the Greek city-state through to the Christian era. They are witnessed in public and private contexts; terracotta, bronze, and stone media; techniques as varied as incision, modelling, or repoussé; and scales from the ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • Images of Mithra

    by Philippa Adrych, Robert Bracey, Dominic Dalglish, Stefanie Lenk, Rachel Wood ...
    Series series Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series
    With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a place in Yazidi and Zoroastrian religion. But what connection have Mihr in Persia, Miiro in Kushan Bactria, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire

    Edited by Daniel Jolowicz, Jaś Elsner ...
    This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and 'criticism' within a multiplicity of cultural forms from identity-assertion to polemic. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Landscape and Space

    Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art

    Edited by Jaś Elsner ...
    Series series Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series
    Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. However, the representation of landscape has been rather less addressed in the scholarship of the archaeologically ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Roman Eyes

    Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text

    by Jaś Elsner ...
    In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire.Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Figurines

    Figuration and The Sense of Scale

    Edited by Jaś Elsner ...
    Series series Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series
    Figurines are objects of handling. As touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art, whether relief sculpture or painting. Unlike the voyeuristic relationship of viewing a neatly framed pictorial narrative as if from the outside, the viewer as handler is always potentially and without protection within the narrative of figurines. As such, they have potential for a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity

    Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland

    Edited by Jaś Elsner ...
    This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and the pagan religions of the Roman world. Most of these became established and remained ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Art of the Roman Empire

    AD 100-450

    by Jaś Elsner ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity of paintings, statues, luxury arts, and masonry, as both reflections and agents of those changes. Jas' ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Poetics of Late Latin Literature

    Edited by Jaś Elsner, Jesús Hernández Lobato ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
    The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in the golden age of a Roman empire that spanned the Mediterranean, but more fundamentally in the original ... Read more

    $116.99 USD