Barbara Crostini
Biographic Data
| ID | 6393122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Crostini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Crostini |
| SIGNATURE | CROSTINI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9138-1766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Paradoxography at Dura? Miracles and Natural Wonders in the Paintings of the Synagogue
A solution to the problem of mismatch between the wall paintings in the Dura Europos Synagogue and the written biblical account is to consider these panels as depictions of the catechetical activities of the community there. Threaded by miraculous episodes and natural wonders, these images are fitting to the wider discourse of ancient and late antique paradoxography. I review the iconography of wonders, consisting in miracles and natural phenomen…
"Barbara Crostini. Review of "Santa Maria Antiqua
Keeping Everyone on Board
Pope Gregory the Great (s. 590–604) wrote two letters to Bishop Serenus of Marseilles, reproaching his acts of iconoclasm that had led to schism in his community. These short documents are considered to contain Gregory’s theory of art as a book for the illiterate and have been criticized for destroying the aura of sacred art to all subsequent Western developments. Here, I argue that the pope’s fundamental contribution is to offer instead a theory…
Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD by Georgi R. Parpulov
Reviewed by: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD by Georgi R. Parpulov Barbara Crostini Manuscript studies, Byzantine, Psalter Georgi R. Parpulov. Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD. Plovdiv, 2014. 320 pp. Open source licensed publication: https://archive.org/details/ByzPsalters. Georgi Parpulov's e-book on Byzantine psalters is a groundbreaking work that has tackled, singlehanded and courageously, a vast …
Eva Nyström, Containing Multitudes. Codex Upsaliensus Graecus 8 in Perspective , Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 11. Uppsala
Mapping Miracles in Byzantine Hagiography
Hagiographical narrative is often examined through the well-established text-critical principle according to which the earliest text is necessarily the most skeletal in outline, the least wondrous in plot, and therefore the most historically believable. According to this view, to the bare bones of truth, fanciful narrative and miraculous tales are added with time, as the tale grows in the telling. The development of the Legend of St Alexios has b…
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Mapping Miracles in Byzantine Hagiography
Hagiographical narrative is often examined through the well-established text-critical principle according to which the earliest text is necessarily the most skeletal in outline, the least wondrous in plot, and therefore the most historically believable. According to this view, to the bare bones of truth, fanciful narrative and miraculous tales are added with time, as the tale grows in the telling. The development of the Legend of St Alexios has b…
Eva Nyström, Containing Multitudes. Codex Upsaliensus Graecus 8 in Perspective , Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 11. Uppsala
Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD by Georgi R. Parpulov
Reviewed by: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD by Georgi R. Parpulov Barbara Crostini Manuscript studies, Byzantine, Psalter Georgi R. Parpulov. Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD. Plovdiv, 2014. 320 pp. Open source licensed publication: https://archive.org/details/ByzPsalters. Georgi Parpulov's e-book on Byzantine psalters is a groundbreaking work that has tackled, singlehanded and courageously, a vast …
Keeping Everyone on Board
Pope Gregory the Great (s. 590–604) wrote two letters to Bishop Serenus of Marseilles, reproaching his acts of iconoclasm that had led to schism in his community. These short documents are considered to contain Gregory’s theory of art as a book for the illiterate and have been criticized for destroying the aura of sacred art to all subsequent Western developments. Here, I argue that the pope’s fundamental contribution is to offer instead a theory…
"Barbara Crostini. Review of "Santa Maria Antiqua
Paradoxography at Dura? Miracles and Natural Wonders in the Paintings of the Synagogue
A solution to the problem of mismatch between the wall paintings in the Dura Europos Synagogue and the written biblical account is to consider these panels as depictions of the catechetical activities of the community there. Threaded by miraculous episodes and natural wonders, these images are fitting to the wider discourse of ancient and late antique paradoxography. I review the iconography of wonders, consisting in miracles and natural phenomen…
Byzantine Studies and History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Byzantine architecture (2 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (2 works)