
Jas Elsner
Author of Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450
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Works by Jas Elsner
Songs of Spiritual Experience: Tibetan Buddhist Poems of Insight and Awakening (2000) — Translator — 53 copies
Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity (1995) 17 copies
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods (2006) — Editor — 17 copies
Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity: Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland (2020) 3 copies
Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature (2007) — Editor — 3 copies
Landscape and Space: Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art (2022) 2 copies
Associated Works
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 13: The Late Empire, A.D. 337–425 (1998) — Contributor — 83 copies
Sexuality in Ancient Art: Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy (1996) — Contributor — 26 copies, 1 review
Architecture of the Sacred: Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium (2012) — Contributor — 15 copies
Approaching Late Antiquity: The Transformation from Early to Late Empire (2004) — Contributor — 14 copies
Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam (2007) — Contributor — 10 copies
Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism (2011) — Contributor — 9 copies
Through a Glass Brightly: Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton (2003) — Contributor — 8 copies, 1 review
Being Greek under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire (2001) — Contributor — 7 copies
Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) (1994) — Contributor — 6 copies
Approaching the Holy Mountain: Art and Liturgy at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai (Cursor Mundi) (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies
Arethusa (vol 43 no 2): The Art of Art History in Greco-Roman Antiquity — Contributor — 1 copy
Classical antiquity (vol 34 no 1) — Contributor — 1 copy
Visual Histories of the Classical World (Studies in Classical Archaeology) (English, French and German Edition) (2019) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- 1962-12-19
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Cambridge
Harvard University - Occupations
- art historian
- Organizations
- King’s College, Cambridge
Courtauld Institute of Art
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
University of Chicago - Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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Good fun for somebody who, like me, likes to lose himself for awhile in points of criticism and interpretation of ancient or other remote history. For me there's a charm to such books. These essays are generally disfigured by the current (and almost parodic) trendy jargon of academia (if it can be called that anymore), but the interest of the subject saves them. Gave me hours of enjoyment, especially the parts about Pausanias' commentators and those who retraced his steps. I'm not quite sure show more why, but I kept thinking of Norman Cantor's Inventing the Middle Ages. show less
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