Nancy P Sevcenko

The Celebration of the Saints in Byzantine Art and Liturgy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the ninth century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of saints through liturgical poetry and sequences of isolated images in fresco, icon painting and illuminated manuscripts

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780367601799
• ISBN-10: 0367601796
• Artikelnr.: 69895093

Autorenporträt

Nancy P. Sevcenko is currently Vice-President of the International Center of Medieval Art, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Part I Saints and the Calendar of the Church Year: Canon and calendar: the role of a 9th-century hymnographer in shaping the celebration of the saints
The imperial Menologia and the 'Menologion' of Basil II
Three saints at Hosios Loukas
Marking holy time: the Byzantine calendar icons
The Evergetis Synaxarion and the celebration of a saint in 12th-century art and liturgy. Part II Narrative Icons: Vita icons and 'decorated' icons of the Komnenian period
The vita icon and the painter as hagiographer. Part III Saints and the Faithful: The tomb of Isaak Komnenos at Pherrai
Close encounters: contact between holy figures and the faithful as represented in Byzantine works of art
The representation of donors and holy figures on four Byzantine icons. Part IV Icons and Liturgical Performances: Icons in the liturgy
'Servants of the holy icon'
The five hymnographers at Nerezi. Part V Holy Places, Holy Relics: The hermit as stranger in the desert
The cave of the Apocalypse
The Limburg Staurothek and its relics
The monastery of Mount Sinai and the cult of Saint Catherine
Addenda and corrigenda
Indexes.