A Companion to Byzantine Poetry

A Companion to Byzantine Poetry
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2019-05-06
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9004392882

This book offers the first complete survey of the Byzantine poetic production (4th to 15th centuries). It examines the use of poetry in various sociocultural settings in Constantinople and various other centres of the Byzantine empire.

Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium

Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium
Author: Andrew Walker White
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2015-10-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107073855

The first full-length, interdisciplinary study of the Greek performing arts - theatre, rhetoric and ritual - between antiquity and the Renaissance.

Essays on Music in the Byzantine World

Essays on Music in the Byzantine World
Author: William Oliver Strunk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1977
Genre: Church music
ISBN: 9780393332766

In this companion volume to Essays on Music in the Western World, Oliver Strunk focuses on the area of study that has dominated his interest for the last thirty years--the chant and liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox church.

Studies in Eastern Chant

Studies in Eastern Chant
Author: Miloš Velimirović
Publisher: London, Oxford U. P, 1966- .
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1966
Genre: Byzantine chants
ISBN:

Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium

Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium
Author: Andrew Mellas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2020-07-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108487599

Emotions in Byzantium came to life through hymnody, which invited the faithful to step into a liturgical world of compunction.