New York Cruciform Lectionary

Author : Jeffrey C. Anderson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271043156

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New York Cruciform Lectionary by Jeffrey C. Anderson Pdf

For elegance and beauty, the Constantinopolitan scribes set standards rarely surpassed. The Gospel lectionary was among the books that attracted the most enthusiastic attention of scribes, illuminators, and their patrons. As an important liturgical item, the lectionary was often exquisitely decorated. The subject of this study, the lectionary in the Pierpont Morgan Library, is unusual even among such luxury manuscripts because its scribe laboriously copied every page of text in the shape of a cross. It is one of just three such manuscripts made in Constantinople around the middle of twelfth century, and it is the only one that contains narrative illustration. Jeffrey Anderson provides a full description of the manuscript, and he has translated and indexed its calendar of saints. Each of the miniatures is reproduced, described, and discussed, and Anderson relates some scenes to versions found in other Byzantine lectionaries and Gospels. The illustrations are attributed to two illuminators, and in a separate chapter Anderson situates their contributions with regard to the ruling, writing, and illumination of the pages. He also relates, through style, the cruciform lectionaries to dated twelfth-century monuments to establish their place in the history of Byzantine art.

Author : Jeffrey C Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:892465097

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The New York Cruciform Lectionary by Jeffrey C Anderson Pdf

Author : Roland Betancourt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108491396

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Performing the Gospels in Byzantium by Roland Betancourt Pdf

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, explores the ritual and architectural context of illuminated manuscripts.

Author : John Lowden
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781588393432

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The Jaharis Gospel Lectionary by John Lowden Pdf

Until 2008 the Jaharis Lectionary was a hidden treasure: an illuminated Byzantine manuscript that was almost entirely unknown, even to scholars. Superbly preserved, it is arguably the most important Byzantine work to come to the Metropolitan Museum's renowned collection since the 1917 gifts of J. Pierpont Morgan. It represents the apogee of Constantinopolitan craftsmanship around the year 1100.In this important study, John Lowden, a leading expert on Byzantine manuscripts, discusses his discoveries about this extraordinary manuscript within the broader context of Byzantine book illumination. He traces the book's history from its acquisition to its production in Constantinople. By detailed analysis and comparison, the author shows how the manuscript was made for use in the patriarchal church of Hagia Sophia.

Author : Kathleen Maxwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351955843

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Between Constantinople and Rome by Kathleen Maxwell Pdf

This is a study of the artistic and political context that led to the production of a truly exceptional Byzantine illustrated manuscript. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, codex grec 54 is one of the most ambitious and complex manuscripts produced during the Byzantine era. This thirteenth-century Greek and Latin Gospel book features full-page evangelist portraits, an extensive narrative cycle, and unique polychromatic texts. However, it has never been the subject of a comprehensive study and the circumstances of its commission are unknown. In this book Kathleen Maxwell addresses the following questions: what circumstances led to the creation of Paris 54? Who commissioned it and for what purpose? How was a deluxe manuscript such as this produced? Why was it left unfinished? How does it relate to other Byzantine illustrated Gospel books? Paris 54's innovations are a testament to the extraordinary circumstances of its commission. Maxwell's multi-disciplinary approach includes codicological and paleographical evidence together with New Testament textual criticism, artistic and historical analysis. She concludes that Paris 54 was never intended to copy any other manuscript. Rather, it was designed to eclipse its contemporaries and to physically embody a new relationship between Constantinople and the Latin West, as envisioned by its patron. Analysis of Paris 54's texts and miniature cycle indicates that it was created at the behest of a Byzantine emperor as a gift to a pope, in conjunction with imperial efforts to unify the Latin and Orthodox churches. As such, Paris 54 is a unique witness to early Palaeologan attempts to achieve church union with Rome.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : 9780870997778

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The Glory of Byzantium by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Serves as both visual and textual record of the exhibition of the same name, surveying the art of the Middle Byzantine period from the restoration of the use of icons by the Orthodox Church in 843 to the occupation of Constantinople by the Crusader forces from the West from 1204 to 1261. Conceived as a sequel to the 1976 exhibition "Age of Spirituality," which focused on the first centuries of Byzantium. Preceding the catalogue, 17 essays treat the historical context, religious sphere, and secular courtly realm of the empire, and the interactions between Byzantium and other medieval cultures. Abundantly illustrated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Leslie Ross
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476616254

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Language in the Visual Arts by Leslie Ross Pdf

This book discusses text and image relationships in the history of art from ancient times to the contemporary period across a diversity of cultures and geographic areas. Focusing on the use of words in art and words as art forms, thematic chapters include "Pictures in Words/Words in Pictures," "Word/Picture Puzzles," "Picture/Word Puzzles," "Words as Images," "The Power of the Word," and "Monumental and Moving Words." Chapter subsections further explore cross-cultural themes. Examining text and image relationships from the obvious to the elusive, the puzzling to the profound, the minor to the major, the book demonstrates the diverse ways in which images and writing have been combined through the ages, and explores the interplay between visual and written communication in a wide range of thought-provoking examples. A color insert is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Michael Angold,Frances Margaret Young,K. Scott Bowie,Margaret Mary Mitchell,Augustine Casiday,Stewart Jay Brown,Thomas F. X. Noble,Julia M. H. Smith,Cambridge University Press,Miri Rubin,R. Po-chia Hsia,Timothy Tackett,Sheridan Gilley,Hugh McLeod,Brian Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521811132

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The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 5, Eastern Christianity by Michael Angold,Frances Margaret Young,K. Scott Bowie,Margaret Mary Mitchell,Augustine Casiday,Stewart Jay Brown,Thomas F. X. Noble,Julia M. H. Smith,Cambridge University Press,Miri Rubin,R. Po-chia Hsia,Timothy Tackett,Sheridan Gilley,Hugh McLeod,Brian Stanley Pdf

This volume encompasses the whole Christian Orthodox tradition from 1200 to the present. Its central theme is the survival of Orthodoxy against the odds into the modern era. It celebrates the resilience shown in the face of hostile regimes and social pressures in this often-neglected period of Orthodox history.

Author : James Keith Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521770125

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A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts by James Keith Elliott Pdf

This book, first published in 2000, is the main bibliographical listing of Greek New Testament manuscripts.

Author : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351474214

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The Sign of the Cross by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere Pdf

This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of the Christian sign of the cross. At its core, it traces the conscious and unconscious influence of this visual symbol through time. What began as the crucifixion of a Jewish troublemaker in Roman-occupied Judea in the first century eventually gave rise to a broad spectrum of readings of the instrument used to accomplish such a punishment, a cross. The author argues that Jesus was a provocative, grandiose masochist whose suffering and death initially signified redemption for believers. This idea gradually morphed into a Christian sense of freedom to persecute and wage war against non-believers, however, as can be seen in the Crusades ("wars of the cross"). Many believers even construed the murder of their savior as a crime perpetrated by "the Jews," and this paranoid notion culminated in the mass murder of European Jews under the sign of the Nazi hooked cross (Hakenkreuz). Rancour-Laferriere's book is expertly written and argued; it will be readable to a large audience because it touches on many areas of controversy, interest, and scholarship. The work is critical, but not unfair; it employs psychoanalysis, art history (the study of the symbol of the cross in works of art), religion and religious texts, and world history generally. The interweaving of these various themes is what gives this work its ability to draw in readers-and will ultimately be what keeps the reader interested through the conclusion.

Author : Adam Łajtar
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9042912529

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Catalogue of the Greek Inscriptions in the Sudan National Museum at Khartoum (I. Khartoum Greek) by Adam Łajtar Pdf

It shall also be of interest among scholars researching Oriental Christianity and Greek epigraphy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Carl S. Tyneh
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1590334663

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Orthodox Christianity by Carl S. Tyneh Pdf

The Orthodox Church is one of the three major branches of Christianity. There are over 300 million adherents throughout the world. The Orthodox Church is a fellowship of independent churches, which split form the Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy in 1054. The Orthodox adherents include people in: Greece, Georgia, Russia, and Serbia. There are an estimated one million members in the United States. This Advanced book explains the basic principles of Orthodox Christianity and describes in detail the holidays observed by the Orthodox Church. In addition, relevant book literature is presented in bibliographic form with easy access provided by title, subject and author indexes.

Author : Brooke Shilling,Paul Stephenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107105997

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Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium by Brooke Shilling,Paul Stephenson Pdf

This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures.

Author : Nancy P. Sevcenko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000950670

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The Celebration of the Saints in Byzantine Art and Liturgy by Nancy P. Sevcenko Pdf

The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the 9th century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of saints through liturgical poetry and sequences of isolated images in fresco, icon painting and illuminated manuscripts. Others are concerned with the longer and rarer, narrative cycles devoted to the life of a single saint, cycles found mainly in fresco and on the so-called vita icons that first appear in the East in the late 12th century. Additional studies deal with the developing role of icons in liturgical ceremonies, and with images of a saint being approached by a supplicant or patron. A final section is devoted to places made holy by the saints, and to their holy relics.

Author : Stratis Papaioannou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197567111

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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature by Stratis Papaioannou Pdf

This volume, the first ever of its kind in English, introduces and surveys Greek literature in Byzantium (330 - 1453 CE). In twenty-five chapters composed by leading specialists, The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature surveys the immense body of Greek literature produced from the fourth to the fifteenth century CE and advances a nuanced understanding of what "literature" was in Byzantium. This volume is structured in four sections. The first, "Materials, Norms, Codes," presents basic structures for understanding the history of Byzantine literature like language, manuscript book culture, theories of literature, and systems of textual memory. The second, "Forms," deals with the how Byzantine literature works: oral discourse and "text"; storytelling; rhetoric; re-writing; verse; and song. The third section ("Agents") focuses on the creators of Byzantine literature, both its producers and its recipients. The final section, entitled "Translation, Transmission, Edition," surveys the three main ways by which we access Byzantine Greek literature today: translations into other Byzantine languages during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Byzantine and post-Byzantine manuscripts; and modern printed editions. The volume concludes with an essay that offers a view of the recent past--as well as the likely future--of Byzantine literary studies.