Screen LibraryThe celebration of the saints in Byzantine art and liturgy /
"The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the 9th century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of saints through liturgical poetry and sequences of isolated image...
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Variorum collected studies series ;
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"The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the 9th century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of saints through liturgical poetry and sequences of isolated images in fresco, icon painting and illuminated manuscripts. Others are concerned with the longer and rarer, narrative cycles devoted to the life of a single saint, cycles found mainly in fresco and on the so-called vita icons that first appear in the East in the late 12th century. Additional studies deal with the developing role of icons in liturgical ceremonies, and with images of a saint being approached by a supplicant or patron. A final section is devoted to places made holy by the saints, and to their holy relics"--Publisher's website. |
| Item Description: | Collection of seventeen essays previously published between 1984 and 2008. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., facsims. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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9781409411604 (hbk.) : 1409411605 (hbk.) |
| Index Number: | DF505 |
| CLC: |
K134 J196.5 |
| Call Number: | J196.5/S497 |
| 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. |