{"product_id":"byzantine-media-subjects-paperback","title":"Byzantine Media Subjects - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGlenn A. Peers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eByzantine Media Subjects \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003einvites readers into a world replete with images--icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. \u003c\/b\u003eGlenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that Byzantine culture was (already) posthuman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Byzantine experience reveals the extent to which media like icons, manuscripts, music, animals, and mirrors fundamentally determine humans. In the Byzantine world, representation as such was deeply persuasive, even coercive; it had the power to affect human relationships, produce conflict, and form self-perception. Media studies has made its subject the modern world, but this book argues for media having made historical subjects. Here, it is shown that media long ago also made Byzantine humans, defining them, molding them, mediating their relationship to time, to nature, to God, and to themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlenn Peers is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at both Syracuse University and the University of Texas at Austin. Among his eight books are, as author, \u003ci\u003e Animism, Materiality, and Museums\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSacred Shock\u003c\/i\u003e, and, as editor, \u003ci\u003eByzantine Things in the World\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Bennington, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 10.2 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51747986964768,"sku":"9781501776267","price":59.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e050211a540cdfb4a05fa26481179b33_ae26b503-68df-4722-a1fa-a0133d9ed32a.webp?v=1779902576","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/byzantine-media-subjects-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}