Experiencing Byzantium: Papers from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Newcastle and Durham, April 2011
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1. Verfasser: Nesbitt, Claire (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013
Schriftenreihe:Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
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Beschreibung:Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; List of Contributors; Editors' Preface; 1. Experiencing Byzantium; Section I: Experiencing Art; 2. Things: Art and Experience in Byzantium*; 3. Repetition and Replication: Sacred and Secular Patterned Textiles; Section II: Experiencing Faith; 4. Experiencing the Sacred; 5. Experiencing the Liturgy in Byzantium; 6. Different Approaches to an Early Byzantine Monument: Procopius and Ibn Battuta on the Church of St John at Ephesos; Section III: Experiencing Landscape
7. Locating Byzantine Monasteries: Spatial Considerations and Strategies in the Rural Landscape*8. Experiencing Politiko: New Methodologies for Analysing the Landscape of a Rural Byzantine Society; 9. Processing Emotion: Litanies in Byzantine Constantinople; Section IV: Experiencing Ritual; 10. The Cross of Light: Experiencing Divine Presence in Byzantine Syria; 11. Experiencing Mid-Byzantine Mortuary Practice: Shrouding the Dead; Section V: Experiencing Self; 12. How Icelanders Experienced Byzantium, Real and Imagined; 13. Experiencing Physical Beauty in Byzantium: The Body and the Ideal
14. Experiencing Self: How Mid-Byzantine Historians Presented their ExperienceSection VI: Experiencing Stories; 15. Experiencing the Byzantine Text, Experiencing the Byzantine Tent; 16. Sensing Ascension in Early Byzantium; 17. From Earth to Heaven: The Changing Musical Soundscape of Byzantine Liturgy; Index
From the reception of imperial ekphraseis in Hagia Sophia to the sounds and smells of the back streets of Constantinople, the sensory perception of Byzantium is an area that lends itself perfectly to an investigation into the experience of the Byzantine world. The theme of experience embraces all aspects of Byzantine studies and the Experiencing Byzantium symposium brought together archaeologists, architects, art historians, historians, musicians and theologians in a common quest to step across the line that divides how we understand and experience the Byzantine world and how the Byzantines th
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:407 pages
ISBN:9781472416704
1472416708
9781472412294
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9781299938908
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