Anicia Juliana and her involvement in the cult of saints in Constantinople (original) (raw)

Anicia Juliana and her involvement in the cult of saints in Constantinople

Field workshop: ANAMED Summer Programme in Byzantine Epigraphy (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, 3-9 September 2018)

Materials for the Study of Late Antique and Medieval Greek and Latin Inscriptions in Istanbul. A Revised and Expanded Booklet. Prepared by I. Toth and A. Rhoby, Oxford and Vienna, 2020, p. 97-106 https://doi.org/10.1553/Inscriptions\_in\_Istanbul

Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald, ed. 2006. Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Examines the building projects of Anicia Juliana in the broader context of Constantinopolitan politics in the early sixth century.

https://www.austriaca.at/8370-9

M.A. Thesis on the socio-cultural climate of early 6th century Byzantium that produced the manuscript known as the Anicia Juliana Codex.

Explores the dedicatory image of Anicia Juliana in the Materia Medica manuscript of Dioscorides. It argues that her depiction is reflective of Anicia's ambiguous status in sixth century Constantinople. While assuming imperial iconography, the image does not quite presume full imperial status.

... fond of building. On behalf of the arts, Gratitude performs proskynesis in front of Juliana. Golden coins are ... not be, imperial. Still, when it comes to enthronement and proskynesis, the message is less subtle. Juliana's elaborate backless ...