{"title":"Bellicose things: the inner lives of Byzantine warfare implements","authors":"Roland Betancourt","doi":"10.1080/02666286.2020.1866972","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Poliorcetica (Vat. gr. 1605) is a Byzantine treatise on siege warfare, composed by the so-called Heron of Byzantium, which was illuminated with drawings and schematics for the construction and use of military tools and structures in the eleventh century. Using an object-oriented lens, this article looks closely at the word-image relations used by the Poliorcetica’s author to engage the manuscript’s illuminations. The article considers how the manuscript diagrams the relationships between objects and their military operations by relying on the viewer’s faculty of imagination (phantasia) to fill in the gaps offered between the text and its images.","PeriodicalId":44046,"journal":{"name":"WORD & IMAGE","volume":"53 1","pages":"160 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"WORD & IMAGE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02666286.2020.1866972","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract The Poliorcetica (Vat. gr. 1605) is a Byzantine treatise on siege warfare, composed by the so-called Heron of Byzantium, which was illuminated with drawings and schematics for the construction and use of military tools and structures in the eleventh century. Using an object-oriented lens, this article looks closely at the word-image relations used by the Poliorcetica’s author to engage the manuscript’s illuminations. The article considers how the manuscript diagrams the relationships between objects and their military operations by relying on the viewer’s faculty of imagination (phantasia) to fill in the gaps offered between the text and its images.
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Word & Image concerns itself with the study of the encounters, dialogues and mutual collaboration (or hostility) between verbal and visual languages, one of the prime areas of humanistic criticism. Word & Image provides a forum for articles that focus exclusively on this special study of the relations between words and images. Themed issues are considered occasionally on their merits.
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