A Temple for Byzantium
Author | : R. Martin Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : R. Martin Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bonna D. Wescoat |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 110737829X |
In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.
Author | : Thomas Arentzen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108476287 |
Images and texts tell various stories about the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, reflecting an important cult with strong doctrinal foundations.
Author | : Bissera V. Pentcheva |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Byzantine chants |
ISBN | : 9780271077260 |
Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, and acoustics, explores the Byzantine paradigm of animation.
Author | : Anthony Kaldellis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2009-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521882281 |
Examines the history of Byzantine Athens, and especially the Parthenon, which became a Christian church and major site of pilgrimage.
Author | : Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2015-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300216092 |
The acclaimed author of Byzantium and the Crusades “offers a fresh take on this fabled but hidden civilization” across 11 centuries of history (Colin Wells, author of Sailing from Byzantium). For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Rather than recounting the standard chronology of emperors and battles, leading Byzantium scholar Jonathan Harris focuses each chapter of this engaging history on a succession of archetypal figures, families, places, and events. Harris’s introduction presents a civilization rich in contrasts, combining orthodox Christianity with paganism, and classical Greek learning with Roman power. Though frequently assailed by numerous armies, Byzantium survived by dint of its unorthodox foreign policy. Over time, its sumptuous art and architecture flourished, helping to establish a deep sense of Byzantine identity in its people. Synthesizing a wealth of sources to cover all major aspects of the empire’s social, political, military, religious, cultural, and artistic history, Harris’s study illuminates the heart of Byzantine civilization and explores its remarkable and lasting influence on the modern world.
Author | : Roland Betancourt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2021-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108870872 |
Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church.
Author | : Robert Bonfil |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1059 |
Release | : 2011-10-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004203559 |
Byzantine Jews: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures is the collective product of a three year research group convened under the auspices of Scholion: Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The volume provides both a survey and an analysis of the social and cultural history of Byzantine Jewry from its inception until the fifteenth century, within the wider context of the Byzantine world.
Author | : Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2011-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300169663 |
By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years until 1453, when the Ottomans dramatically toppled the capital's walls. During this bleak and uncertain time, ordinary Byzantines faced difficult decisions to protect their livelihoods and families against the death throes of their homeland. In this evocative and moving book, Jonathan Harris explores individual stories of diplomatic maneuverings, covert defiance, and sheer luck against a backdrop of major historical currents and offers a new perspective on the real reasons behind the fall of this extraordinarily fascinating empire.