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1789692628 pdf En Sofa mathitfsantes: Essays in Byzantine Material Culture and Society in Honour of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti contains a collection of thirty studies dedicated to Sophia Kalopissi-Verti by her students which celebrate the multifaceted academic and teaching career of Professor Kalopissi-Verti, Emerita of Byzantine Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The contributions cover a large variety of topics presenting unpublished archaeological material, suggesting new approaches to various aspects of Byzantine archaeology, material culture and art history. Geographically topics span a vast area from Constantinople to South Sinai and from Cyprus and Antiocheia to the Aegean Islands, continental Greece and Italy. Covering the period from the Early Byzantine to the Post-Byzantine period, they are organised in seven thematic sections: Urbanism and Architecture Painting and Iconography Stone Carving and Sculpture Ceramics Bone, Metal and Textiles Coinage and Sigillography Inscriptions, Portraits and Patronage. The broad thematic, chronological and geographic scope of the volumes essays reflects the wide range of Kalopissi-Vertis pioneering research and her own interests, to which she introduced her students and with which she inspired them. Read more