Between Statues and Icons: Iconic Persons from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

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	Table of Contents
	Abbreviations
	Figures
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
			Methodological Considerations
			Status Quaestionis
	Chapter 1: Setting the Stage
		1.1	Body Language in Early Imperial Society
		1.2	Sieging Olympus: Humankind Claims Immortality
		1.3	Knowing the Gods: From Cult Statues to Iconic Persons
		1.4	Conclusions
	Chapter 2: Emperors
		2.1	Negotiating Divinity in Rome
		2.2	Constructing Iconicity
		2.3	From Image of Jupiter to Image of Christ
		2.4	Conclusions
	Chapter 3: Martyrs
		3.1	Paul’s Concept of Iconic Living
		3.2	Performing Christ in the Arena
		3.3	God’s Living Temples
		3.4	Preserving the Martyrs’ Iconicity: Relics
		3.5	Preserving the Martyrs’ Iconicity: People
		3.6	Conclusions
	Chapter 4: Initiates
		4.1	Visions, Ascensions, and Transformations in Late Antique Initiations
		4.2	New Bishops for a New Church
		4.3	Making Golden Statues of Christ
		4.4	Beyond Baptism
		4.5	Conclusions
	Chapter 5: Bishops
		5.1	From Martyr-bishops to Teacher-bishops
		5.2	Rome’s Aristocratic Bishops
		5.3	Emperor Justinian’s Living Mirrors
		5.4	Beyond the Living Bishop
		5.5	Conclusions
	Chapter 6: Stylites
		6.1	Living vs. Animated Statues
		6.2	Multiplying the Stylite’s Body: Eulogia, Relics, Columns
		6.3	Preserving the Iconic Body: Icons
		6.4	Conclusions
	Chapter 7: Conclusion
	Bibliography
	Index of Ancient Names
	Index of Places