Ivories, Inscriptions, and Episcopal Self-Consciousness in the Ottonian Empire: Berthold of Toul and the Berlin Hodegetria
William North|Anne Cutler
This study advances two central claims based on a detailed investigation of the Byzantine ivory plaque depicting Hodegetria now in Museum fur Spatantike und Byzantinische Kunst Berlin (inv. no. 2394), which bears an elegant Latin poetic inscription carved upon its frame. First, it argues basis historical, artistic, and epigraphic evidence that hitherto unknown presul Bertoldus named as patron work can be identified Bishop Berthold Toul (996-1019), prominent Lotharingian bishop under Henry II contemporary better known Ottonian bishops, Egbert Trier Bernward Hildesheim. Second, addition to bold methods episcopal use eastern exotica, analyzes cultural significance emergence around year 1000 practice incising inscriptions ivories, often works, actually name commemorate act artistic patronage. The these offer im...
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