Karin Krause (University of Chicago)

Divine Inspiration in Byzantium

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses scholars across disciplines interested in conceptions of authenticity in the construction of religious authority in Byzantium and Eastern Orthodoxy. By examining a range of textual and visual sources concerned with the concept of divine inspiration, it traces continuity and change from classical antiquity to Byzantium.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1090g
• ISBN-13: 9781108830997
• ISBN-10: 1108830994
• Artikelnr.: 63201242

Autorenporträt

Karin Krause is an assistant professor of Byzantine Theology and Visual Culture at the University of Chicago. Her research has been supported by the German Research Foundation, the Max Planck Society, Dumbarton Oaks, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, and the German Academic Exchange Service. Her book The Illustrated Homilies of John Chrysostom in Byzantium won an award from the Southeast Europe Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The early Christian iconography of divine inspiration: Novel approaches to an old pictorial theme
2. Inspiration and the Bible in the post-iconoclastic era
3. Inspiration continued: The writings of the church fathers
4. Divine inspiration beyond the fathers
5. Inspired icons
6. Acheiropoietos: The Mandylion as "the radiance of God's glory and exact imprint of God's very being"
 7. Allegories of divine artistry: The Mandylion and its multiples.