Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium - Marinis, Vasileios (Yale University, Connecticut)
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This interdisciplinary study provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of hagiography, theological treatises, apocryphal texts, and liturgical services, as well as images of the fate of the soul in manuscript and monumental decoration, to investigate what the Byzantines believed about the fate of the soul after death.

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This interdisciplinary study provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of hagiography, theological treatises, apocryphal texts, and liturgical services, as well as images of the fate of the soul in manuscript and monumental decoration, to investigate what the Byzantines believed about the fate of the soul after death.
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Autorenporträt
Vasileios Marinis is Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at Yale University, Connecticut. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the Aidan Kavanagh Prize for Outstanding Scholarship at Yale University, a fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, the S. C. and P. C. Coleman Senior Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey,and a Humboldt fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen. Professor Marinis has published on a variety of topics ranging from early Christian tunics decorated with New Testament scenes to medieval tombs, graffiti, and Byzantine transvestite nuns. He is the author of Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople (Cambridge, 2014).