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Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Glenn Peers
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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Sacred Shock attempts to lay bare the inner workings of Byzantine art by looking closely at the marginal or subsidiary areas in works of art.
Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium
Language: en
Pages: 515
Authors: Ivan Drpić
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-21 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores the nexus of art, personal piety, and self-representation in the last centuries of Byzantium. Spanning the period from around 1100 to around
Welcoming Finitude
Language: en
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Authors: Christina M. Gschwandtner
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-01 - Publisher: Fordham University Press

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What does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, and what impac
The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Paroma Chatterjee
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explores the development and diffusion of the vita image which emerged in Byzantium in the twelfth century and spread to Italy and beyond.
The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Eirini Panou
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine research to study the phenomenon of St Anna’s cult from the sixth to the fifteenth cent