Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900

Ildar Garipzanov is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oslo. He received a PhD in classical history from Kazan State University (1991) and a PhD in medieval history from Fordham University, New York (2004). He was an Oliver Smithies Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford (2012), a visiting fellow at Clare Hall College, Cambridge (2015/16), and a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2016). He has authored and edited a number of books in late antique and medieval history, including the monograph The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (2008).

• IntroductionPart One: Graphic Signs of Divine Authority in Late Antiquity1: The Origins of Early Christian Graphic Signs2: Christograms as Signs of Authority in the Late Roman Empire3: The Sign of the Cross in Late AntiquityPart Two: Monogrammatic Culture in Late Antique Culture4: Monograms, Early Christians, and Late Antique Culture5: Secular Monograms, Social Status, and Authority in the Late Roman World and Early Byzantium6: Public Monuments and the Monogrammatic Display of Authority in the Post-Roman WorldPart Three: Graphic Signs of Authority in Early Medieval Europe7: Monogrammatic Culture in Pre-Carolingian Europe8: Monogrammatic Revival in the Carolingian World9: The Power of the Cross and Cruciform Devices in the Carolingian WorldConclusionBibliography and Index of Manuscripts

Provides a rich, dense account of graphic signs and monograms in the Roman world from the fourth to ninth centuries ... Highly recommended.