Antony Eastmond
Biographic Data
| ID | 1114491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antony Eastmond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antony |
| FAMILY NAME | Eastmond |
| SIGNATURE | EASTMOND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Courtauld Institute of Art |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“The Image Is Not God”
An inscription above a twelfth-century mosaic image of Christ in the church of San Marco in Venice states: “Indeed God is as the image teaches, but the image itself is not God. Here you see [the image], but you worship in spirit what you perceive in it.” The mosaic was made at a moment of great anxiety about the status of images across the Christian world. A small group of images in both Rome and Constantinople were increasingly singled out as pa…
Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204
Journal Article Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204: The Evidence of Art and Material Culture, ed. Vicky Foskolou and Sophia Kalopissi-Verti Get access Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204: The Evidence of Art and Material Culture, ed. Vicky Foskolou and Sophia Kalopissi-Verti (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022; pp. 572. €95). Antony Eastmond Antony Eastmond Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK antony.ea…
Tomb and Temple
Royal Renewal in Georgia
The reign of Queen Tamar of Georgia at the end of the twelfth century (1184-1213) raises an important question about the issue of royal renewal in the Byzantine world. In a system used primarily to promote men, how could the idea of renewal be adapted to fit a woman ruler? Could a woman ruler be a new Constantine, or even a new Helena, or did the idea of renewal a valid means of expressing the aims of the reign of a woman, particularly in the cas…
Tamta's World
This book tells the compelling story of a Christian noblewoman named Tamta in the thirteenth century. Born to an Armenian family at the court of queen Tamar of Georgia, she was ransomed in marriage to nephews of Saladin after her father was captured during a siege. She was later raped and then married by the Khwarazmshah and held hostage by the Mongols, before being made an independent ruler under them in eastern Anatolia. Her tale stretches from…
Patterns of Armeno-Muslim Interchange on the Armenian Plateau in the Interstice between Byzantine and Ottoman Hegemony
In 1219 Ce, an Armenian woman named Mamkhat‘un, who is otherwise unattested, left money in her will for the construction of a tower (tower 62) on the north-eastern ramparts of the city of Ani, the former capital of Armenia. (Figure 8.1) Figure 8.1 Tower of Mamkhatun (Tower 63), Ani. 1219. Photo: author https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315589886/9138bc14-e7e8-412c-859f-f0219195aab0/content/fig8_1_B.jpg" …
Nicolas Trépanier. Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia
Fourteenth-century Anatolia is a backwater in historical studies, either ignored as a century of fragmentation and confusion after the collapse of the Seljuq Turks, or tolerated as the starting point in the rise of the Ottomans, who were to dominate the region for the next four hundred years. This delightful book presents the region in an entirely new way. It aims to paint a picture by studying its food culture, examining its production, exchange…
Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World
Re-Viewing Inscriptions
Viewing Inscriptions
Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World
David Winfield 2 December 1929 to 28 September 2013
The Vision of the Palace of the Byzantine Emperors as a Heavenly Jerusalem, by Maria Cristina Carile
In the middle Byzantine period the earthly court of the Byzantine emperors was regarded by contemporaries as a mirror of the heavenly court of Christ. Maria Carile’s thesis in this book (based on her 2007 Ph.D. dissertation) is that we can trace that idea back to the Late Antique period. As evidence for this, Carile looks to the palaces of the period. She brings together the (very limited) archaeological record of Late Antique imperial palaces wi…
Consular Diptychs, Rhetoric and the Languages of Art in Sixth‐Century Constantinople
Later Byzantine Painting
Journal Article Later Byzantine Painting: Art, Agency, and Appreciation Get access Later Byzantine Painting: Art, Agency, and Appreciation, by Robert S. Nelson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007; pp. xiv + 414. £75). Antony Eastmond Antony Eastmond Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 503, August 2008, Pages 1013–1014, h…
Georgia, Republic of
"Local" Saints, Art, and Regional Identity in the Orthodox World after the Fourth Crusade
The Color of Ivory
The Color of Ivory
Georgia, Republic of
"Local" Saints, Art, and Regional Identity in the Orthodox World after the Fourth Crusade
Later Byzantine Painting
Journal Article Later Byzantine Painting: Art, Agency, and Appreciation Get access Later Byzantine Painting: Art, Agency, and Appreciation, by Robert S. Nelson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007; pp. xiv + 414. £75). Antony Eastmond Antony Eastmond Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 503, August 2008, Pages 1013–1014, h…
Consular Diptychs, Rhetoric and the Languages of Art in Sixth‐Century Constantinople
The Vision of the Palace of the Byzantine Emperors as a Heavenly Jerusalem, by Maria Cristina Carile
In the middle Byzantine period the earthly court of the Byzantine emperors was regarded by contemporaries as a mirror of the heavenly court of Christ. Maria Carile’s thesis in this book (based on her 2007 Ph.D. dissertation) is that we can trace that idea back to the Late Antique period. As evidence for this, Carile looks to the palaces of the period. She brings together the (very limited) archaeological record of Late Antique imperial palaces wi…
David Winfield 2 December 1929 to 28 September 2013
Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World
Re-Viewing Inscriptions
Viewing Inscriptions
Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World
Patterns of Armeno-Muslim Interchange on the Armenian Plateau in the Interstice between Byzantine and Ottoman Hegemony
In 1219 Ce, an Armenian woman named Mamkhat‘un, who is otherwise unattested, left money in her will for the construction of a tower (tower 62) on the north-eastern ramparts of the city of Ani, the former capital of Armenia. (Figure 8.1) Figure 8.1 Tower of Mamkhatun (Tower 63), Ani. 1219. Photo: author https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315589886/9138bc14-e7e8-412c-859f-f0219195aab0/content/fig8_1_B.jpg" …
Nicolas Trépanier. Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia
Fourteenth-century Anatolia is a backwater in historical studies, either ignored as a century of fragmentation and confusion after the collapse of the Seljuq Turks, or tolerated as the starting point in the rise of the Ottomans, who were to dominate the region for the next four hundred years. This delightful book presents the region in an entirely new way. It aims to paint a picture by studying its food culture, examining its production, exchange…
Tamta's World
This book tells the compelling story of a Christian noblewoman named Tamta in the thirteenth century. Born to an Armenian family at the court of queen Tamar of Georgia, she was ransomed in marriage to nephews of Saladin after her father was captured during a siege. She was later raped and then married by the Khwarazmshah and held hostage by the Mongols, before being made an independent ruler under them in eastern Anatolia. Her tale stretches from…
Royal Renewal in Georgia
The reign of Queen Tamar of Georgia at the end of the twelfth century (1184-1213) raises an important question about the issue of royal renewal in the Byzantine world. In a system used primarily to promote men, how could the idea of renewal be adapted to fit a woman ruler? Could a woman ruler be a new Constantine, or even a new Helena, or did the idea of renewal a valid means of expressing the aims of the reign of a woman, particularly in the cas…
Tomb and Temple
Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204
Journal Article Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204: The Evidence of Art and Material Culture, ed. Vicky Foskolou and Sophia Kalopissi-Verti Get access Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204: The Evidence of Art and Material Culture, ed. Vicky Foskolou and Sophia Kalopissi-Verti (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022; pp. 572. €95). Antony Eastmond Antony Eastmond Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK antony.ea…
“The Image Is Not God”
An inscription above a twelfth-century mosaic image of Christ in the church of San Marco in Venice states: “Indeed God is as the image teaches, but the image itself is not God. Here you see [the image], but you worship in spirit what you perceive in it.” The mosaic was made at a moment of great anxiety about the status of images across the Christian world. A small group of images in both Rome and Constantinople were increasingly singled out as pa…
History (13 works) · Art (11 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (9 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Byzantine architecture (6 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (6 works) · History (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Classics (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)