Holiness On The Move Mobility And Space In Byzantine Hagiography

Author : Mihail Mitrea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023
Category : Christian hagiography
ISBN : 1032290803

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Holiness on the Move by Mihail Mitrea Pdf

"Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography, explores the literary, religious, and social functions of monastic mobility in Byzantine hagiography, touching on aspects of space, narrative, and identity. The ten chapters included in this volume highlight the multifaceted and rich nature of travel narratives, exploring topics such as authorship and audience, narrative structure and function, identity-making and practicalities of and discourse on travel. In terms of geographical span, the case studies cover Constantinople and its hinterland, Asia Minor, mainland Greece, Trebizond, the Balkans, and southern Italy, and range chronologically from the end of the sixth to the fourteenth century. The contributions offer novel insights and perspectives on the importance of mobility in the literary construction of holiness in the Byzantine world and the wider medieval Mediterranean, the spatial dimension of sacred mobility, and the ways in which mobility is employed in the narrative construction of hagiographical texts. As such, the volume joins the burgeoning research on sacred mobilities and will interest students and scholars of Byzantine and medieval literature, religion, and history, as well as a wider readership with an interest in the study of space and mobility"--

Author : Mihail Mitrea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000833133

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Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography by Mihail Mitrea Pdf

Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography explores the literary, religious, and social functions of monastic mobility in Byzantine hagiography, touching on aspects of space, narrative, and identity. The ten chapters included in this volume highlight the multifaceted and rich nature of travel narratives, exploring topics such as authorship and audience, narrative structure and function, identity-making and practicalities of and discourse on travel. In terms of geographical span, the case studies cover Constantinople and its hinterland, Asia Minor, mainland Greece, Trebizond, the Balkans, and southern Italy and range chronologically from the end of the sixth to the fourteenth century. The contributions offer novel insights and perspectives on the importance of mobility in the literary construction of holiness in the Byzantine world and the wider medieval Mediterranean, the spatial dimension of sacred mobility, and the ways in which mobility is employed in the narrative construction of hagiographical texts. As such, the volume joins the burgeoning research on sacred mobilities and will interest students and scholars of Byzantine and medieval literature, religion, and history, as well as a wider readership with an interest in the study of space and mobility.

Author : Myrko Veikou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9151319640

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Spatial Paths to Holiness by Myrko Veikou Pdf

In the city of Uppsala, located at some 70km-distance from the Stockholm Archipelago, the average wind-speed throughout the year is 10-15 kilometers per hour. These dynamics generate recurring spectacles of 'turbulent' skies, as clouds are constantly in motion and they rapidly form, reform and transform the image of the sky. These spectacles make this Byzantinist reflect upon ways in which medieval people--who had never flown a plane, bound to the land--would have been receiving them in their everyday life. How 'heavenlily-induced' would they have considered turbulent skies? Would they have understood the image on the cover of this book (a cloud-pattern depicting a long staircase leading from the low parts of the horizon to the celestial hights) as divine invitation? The turbulent skies of Uppsala have nurtured me with ample imagination towards understanding medieval hagiographical texts and writing this book[Bokinfo].

Author : Professor Stephanos Efthymiadis
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409482680

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography by Professor Stephanos Efthymiadis Pdf

Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of Byzantine literature and it offers crucial insight to the development of religious thought and practice, social and literary life, and the history of the empire. It emerged in the fourth century with the pioneering Life of St Antony and continued to evolve until the end of the empire in the fifteenth century, and beyond. The appeal and dynamics of this genre radiated beyond the confines of Byzantium, and it was practised also in many Oriental and Slavic languages within the orbit of the broader Byzantine world. This companion is the work of an international team of specialists and represents the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. It consists of two volumes and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, Medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of the narrative. This first volume covers the authors and texts of the four distinctive periods during which Greek Byzantine hagiography developed, as well as the hagiography produced in Oriental and Slavic languages and in geographical milieux around the periphery of the empire, from Italy to Armenia. Volume II addresses questions of genres and the social and other contexts of Byzantine hagiography.

Author : Antonio Rigo,Michele Trizio,Eleftherios Despotakis
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 2503577717

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Byzantine Hagiography by Antonio Rigo,Michele Trizio,Eleftherios Despotakis Pdf

In recent years Byzantine hagiography has attracted renewed interest of the international community of Byzantine scholars and not only thanks to studies dedicated to this subject and critical editions of individual texts, but also because hagiography has been the main focus of numerous major research projects: databases, new repertories, a new version of the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca and some very useful handbooks dedicated to this literary genre during the Byzantine Empire. These researches have analysed Byzantine hagiography in relation to the hagiographic writings composed in neighbouring areas, the West, the Syriac and Arabic Middle East, the Southern Slavs, etc. but also the relations between the hagiographical texts and other literary genres. This volume introduces the current developments of hagiographical studies and on-going projects on the subject, and investigates a variety of texts and authors from the Patristic period to the end of Byzantium.

Author : Paroma Chatterjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107034969

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The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy by Paroma Chatterjee Pdf

Explores the development and diffusion of the vita image which emerged in Byzantium in the twelfth century and spread to Italy and beyond.

Author : David Cairns
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783531923314

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Youth on the Move by David Cairns Pdf

Author : Oleg Tarasov
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861895509

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Icon and Devotion by Oleg Tarasov Pdf

Icon and Devotion offers the first extensive presentation in English of the making and meaning of Russian icons. The craft of icon-making is set into the context of forms of worship that emerged in the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-seventeenth century. Oleg Tarasov shows how icons have held a special place in Russian consciousness because they represented idealized images of Holy Russia. He also looks closely at how and why icons were made. Wonder-working saints and the leaders of such religious schisms as the Old Believers appear in these pages, which are illustrated with miniature paintings, lithographs and engravings never before published in the English-speaking world. By tracing the artistic vocabulary, techniques and working methods of icon painters, Tarasov shows how icons have been integral to the history of Russian art, influenced by folk and mainstream currents alike. As well as articulating the specifically Russian piety they invoke, he analyzes the significance of icons in the cultural life of modern Russia in the context of popular prints and poster design.

Author : Georgios Theotokis,Marek Meško
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429574771

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War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium by Georgios Theotokis,Marek Meško Pdf

War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium presents new insights and critical approaches to warfare between the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours during the eleventh century. Modern historians have identified the eleventh century as a landmark era in Byzantine history. This was a period of invasions, political tumult, financial crisis and social disruption, but it was also a time of cultural and intellectual innovation and achievement. Despite this, the subject of warfare during this period remains underexplored. Addressing an important gap in the historiography of Byzantium, the volume argues that the eleventh century was a period of important geo-political change, when the Byzantine Empire was attacked on all sides, and its frontiers were breached. This book is valuable reading for scholars and students interested in Byzantium history and military history.

Author : Paraskevi Toma
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 9783643909954

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Joseph the Hymnographer by Paraskevi Toma Pdf

Joseph the Hymnographer (c. AD 816 - 886) belonged to the Constantinopolitan intellectual elite and was a prominent teacher. His liturgical poetic oeuvre comprises different subgenres. However, he is best known for his kanones. A kanon is a long hymn penned in one of the eight Byzantine modes and sung during the early morning office (Orthros). The present critical edition aims to determine the original text of groups consisting of eight kanones each and dedicated to prominent saints. Within each group, Joseph composed one kanon per mode.

Author : Oana-Maria Cojocaru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000431940

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Byzantine Childhood by Oana-Maria Cojocaru Pdf

Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in medieval Byzantium, children’s everyday experiences, and their agency. By piecing together a wide range of sources and utilising several methodological approaches inspired by intersectionality, history from below and microhistory, it analyses the life course of Byzantine boys and girls and how medieval Byzantine society perceived and treated them according to societal and cultural expectations surrounding age, gender, and status. Ultimately, it seeks to reconstruct a more plausible picture of the everyday life of children, one of the most vulnerable social groups throughout history and often a neglected subject in scholarship. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this book is necessary reading for scholars and students of Byzantine history, as well as those interested in the history of childhood and the family.

Author : Brian A. Catlos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521889391

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Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614 by Brian A. Catlos Pdf

An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.

Author : Alison Beach,Isabelle Cochelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1107042100

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The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West: Volume 2 by Alison Beach,Isabelle Cochelin Pdf

Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.

Author : Georgios Theotokis,Dimitrios Sidiropoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000390025

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Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century by Georgios Theotokis,Dimitrios Sidiropoulos Pdf

Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century is the first English translation of the ninth-century Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris. This influential text offers a valuable insight into the warrior ethic of the period, the role of religion in the justification of war, and the view of other military cultures by the Byzantine elite. It also played a crucial role in the compilation of the tenth-century Taktika and Constantine VII’s harangues during a period of intense military activity for the Byzantine Empire on its eastern borders. Including a detailed commentary and critical introduction to the author and the structure of the text, this book will appeal to all those interested in Byzantine political ideology and military history.

Author : Jitse H. F. Dijkstra,Christian R. Raschle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494908

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Religious Violence in the Ancient World by Jitse H. F. Dijkstra,Christian R. Raschle Pdf

A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.