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.

摘要

Poliorcetica (Vat. gr. 1605) 是一篇关于攻城战的拜占庭论文，由所谓的拜占庭苍鹭撰写，其中描绘了 11 世纪军事工具和结构的建造和使用的图纸和示意图。这篇文章使用面向对象的镜头，仔细研究了Poliortica 的作者用来参与手稿照明的文字-图像关系。文章考虑了手稿如何通过依靠观众的想象力（幻想）来填补文本与其图像之间的空白，从而描绘出物体与其军事行动之间的关系。