Byzantine Media Subjects

Byzantine Media Subjects explores the role of media in shaping Byzantine human identity, arguing that media, such as icons, manuscripts, music, animals, and mirrors, fundamentally determined humans in the Byzantine world. It challenges the modern world's focus on the modern world and suggests that media have also made historical subjects.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2024
Publisher: Cornell University Press

Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a captivating world filled with images, including icons, frescoes, and mosaics that adorned places of worship, politics, and communities. Glenn Peers invites readers to imagine a world where representation held sway and humans were shaped by it, ultimately becoming posthuman. Peers argues that the Byzantine experience reveals the profound impact of media on human relationships, conflict, and self-perception. Media studies have traditionally focused on the modern world, but this book contends that media have also shaped historical subjects, including the Byzantines. It demonstrates that media have long played a crucial role in defining, molding, and mediating the Byzantines' relationship with time, nature, God, and themselves.

Weight: 786g
Dimension: 178 x 255 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501776267