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Author: Leena Mari Peltomaa
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004120884
Size: 67.99 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Book Description: The Akathistos Hymn, the great work of Byzantine hyumnography, is here considered in the context of early Mariology. Using an innovative method which contextualizes the hymn's metaphorical and theological language, the author proposes a new argument for the hymn's dating.

Author: Leslie Brubaker
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754662662
Size: 62.87 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Book Description: This volume, on the cult of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) in Byzantium, focuses on textual and historical aspects of the subject, thus complementing previous work which has centered more on the cult of images of the Mother of God. This international cast of scholars, consider the development and transformation of the cult from approximately the fourth through the twelfth centuries. The aim of this volume is to build on recent work on the cult of the Virgin Mary in Byzantium and to explore new areas of study. The rationale is critical and historical, using literary, artistic, and archaeological sources to evaluate her role in the development of the Byzantine understanding of the ways in which God interacts with creation by means of icons, relics and the Theotokos.

Author: Cecily J. Hilsdale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033306
Size: 46.95 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Book Description: Questions how political decline refigures the visual culture of empire by examining the imperial image and the gift in later Byzantium (1261-1453). Provides a more nuanced account of medieval artistic cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.

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Size: 52.75 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
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Languages : ru
Pages :
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Author: Frances Margaret Young
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042918832
Size: 59.50 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Book Description: Papers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003 (see also Studia Patristica 39, 41, 42 and 43). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.

Author: Dr Bronwen Neil
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409474496
Size: 40.36 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Book Description: Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society, as in many others. While studies of gender in the western medieval period have appeared regularly in the past decade, similar studies of Byzantium have lagged behind. Masculine and feminine roles were not always as clearly defined as in the West, while eunuchs made up a 'third gender' in the imperial court. Social status indicators were also in a state of flux, as much linked to patronage networks as to wealth, as the Empire came under a series of external and internal pressures. This fluidity applied equally in ecclesiastical and secular spheres. The present collection of essays uncovers gender roles in the imperial family, in monastic institutions of both genders, in the Orthodox church, and in the nascent cult of Mary in the east. It puts the spotlight on flashpoints over a millennium of Byzantine rule, from Constantine the Great to Irene and the Palaiologoi, and covers a wide geographical range, from Byzantine Italy to Syria. The introduction frames the following nine chapters against recent scholarship and considers methodological issues in the study of gender and Byzantine society. Together these essays portray a surprising range of male and female experience in various Byzantine social institutions - whether religious, military, or imperial -- over the course of more than a millennium. The collection offers a provocative contrast to recent studies based on western medieval scholarship. Common themes that bind the collection into a coherent whole include specifically Byzantine expectations of gender among the social elite; the fluidity of social and sexual identities for Byzantine men and women within the church; and the specific challenges that strong individuals posed to the traditional limitations of gender within a hierarchical society dominated by Christian orthodoxy.

Author: R. H. Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 70.72 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Author: Maurice Wiles
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042909229
Size: 31.18 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 535
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Book Description: Papers presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1999 (see also Studia Patristica 34, 36, 37 and 38). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.

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Publisher: Indrik
ISBN:
Size: 35.67 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Holy cards
Languages : ru
Pages : 83
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Book Description:

Author: Dummy Author
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567145603
Size: 69.28 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Book Description: Peeler recognizes the inherent connection between the paternal identity of God, the filial identity of the Son, and the filial identity of the audience.

Author: Erik Thunø
Publisher: L'Erma di Bretschneider
ISBN:
Size: 11.82 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Book Description: The present volume results from the conference L'immagine miracolosa nella cultura tardomedievale e rinascimentale, which was held at the Danish Academy in Rome, 31 May - 2 June 2002. The aim of the conference was to shed light on a body of visual material, often neglected by art history, and thus to call attention to a new field of study in the visual arts of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Author: Bissera V
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271035846
Size: 79.87 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Book Description: "Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance"--Provided by publisher.