The celebration of the saints in Byzantine art and liturgy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Variorum,
c2013.
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| Series: | Variorum collected studies series ;
CS975 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.