TY - BOOK ID - 17311801 TI - Pottery, pavements, and paradise : iconographic and textual studies on late antiquity AU - Hoek, Annewies van den. AU - Herrmann, John J. PY - 2013 VL - 122 SN - 9789004255388 9004255389 9789004256934 9004256938 1299989039 PB - Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Christian art and symbolism. KW - Christian literature, Early KW - History and criticism. KW - 246 "00/06" KW - Art, Christian KW - Art, Ecclesiastical KW - Arts in the church KW - Christian symbolism KW - Ecclesiastical art KW - Religious art, Christian KW - Sacred art KW - Symbolism and Christian art KW - Art KW - Symbolism KW - Christian antiquities KW - Church decoration and ornament KW - Christelijke kunst en symbolisme--?"00/06" KW - Art et symbolisme chrétiens KW - Littérature chrétienne primitive KW - Histoire et critique KW - Religious art KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Symbolism in art KW - History and criticism KW - Christian literature, Early - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17311801 AB - These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entertainments, pagan cults, mythic heroes, beasts, monsters, and biblical visions are themes dealt with on the patrician and popular levels. With interpretive supplements from these diverse realms, it is possible to achieve greater insight into the life, attitudes, and thought of Late Antiquity. ER -