The celebration of the saints in Byzantine art and liturgy / Nancy P. Šev enko
2013, First Edition. Farnham : Ashgate Variorum. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #381606
ISBN: 9781409411604
Physical description: 1 v. (various pagings) : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Saints and the calendar of the church year. Canon and calendar: the role of a ninth-century hymnographer in shaping the celebration of the saints -- The imperial Menologia and the "Menologion" of Basil II -- Three saints at Hosios Loukas -- Marking holy time: the Byzantine calendar icons -- The Evergetis Synaxarion and the celebration of a saint in twelfth-century art and liturgy -- Narrative icons. Vita icons and "decorated" icons of the Komnenian period -- The vita icon and the painter as hagiographer -- Saints and the faithful. The tomb of Isaak Komnenos at Pherrai -- Close encounters: contact between holy figures and the faithful as represented in Byzantine works of art -- The reprsentation of donors and holy figures on four Byzantine icons -- Icons and liturgical performances. Icons in the liturgy -- "Servants of the holy icon" -- The five hymnographers at Nerezi -- Holy places, Holy relics. The hermit as stranger in the desert -- The cave of the Apocalypse -- The Limburg Staurothek and its relics -- The monastery of Mount Sinai and the cult of St Catherine -- Addenda and corrigenda. Subjects: Saints Byzantine Empire Commemoration.
Christian saints Cult Byzantine Empire. Art, Byzantine Themes, motives.
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Christian saints Cult Byzantine Empire. Saints Byzantine Empire Commemoration. Saints Cult Byzantine Empire.
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