Performing the Gospels in Byzantium: Sight, Sound, and Space in

Performing the Gospels in Byzantium\nby Roland Betancourt\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Roland Betancourt\nTitle: Performing the Gospels in Byzantium\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of art\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781108491396\nISBN-10: 1108491391\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nTracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers .