The celebration of the saints in Byzantine art and liturgy /

Main Author: Sevcenko, Nancy Patterson
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Variorum, c2013.
Series:Variorum collected studies series ; CS975
Subjects:
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245 1 4 |a The celebration of the saints in Byzantine art and liturgy /  |c Nancy P. Sevcenko. 
260 |a Farnham, Surrey ;  |b Ashgate Variorum,  |c c2013.  |a Burlington, VT : 
300 |a 1 v. (various pagings) :  |b ill., facsims. ;  |c 25 cm. 
490 1 |a Variorum collected studies series ;  |v CS975 
500 |a Collection of seventeen essays previously published between 1984 and 2008. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
505 0 |a Saints and the calendar of the church year. Canon and calendar: the role of a ninth-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 twelfth-century art and liturgy -- Narrative icons. Vita icons and "decorated" icons of the Komnenian period -- The vita icon and the painter as hagiographer -- 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 reprsentation of donors and holy figures on four Byzantine icons -- Icons and liturgical performances. Icons in the liturgy -- "Servants of the holy icon" -- The five hymnographers at Nerezi -- 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 St Catherine -- Addenda and corrigenda. 
650 0 |a Art, Byzantine  |x Themes, motives 
650 0 |a Saints  |x Anniversaries, etc.  |z Byzantine Empire 
650 0 |a Christian saints in art 
650 0 |a Christian saints  |x Cult  |z Byzantine Empire 
650 0 |a Christian saints in literature 
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