Pseudo Dionysius And Christian Visual Culture C 500 900

Author : Francesca Dell’Acqua,Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030247690

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Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture, c.500–900 by Francesca Dell’Acqua,Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi Pdf

This book uses Pseudo-Dionysius and his mystic theology to explore attitudes and beliefs about images in the early medieval West and Byzantium. Composed in the early sixth century, the Corpus Dionysiacum, the collection of texts transmitted under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite, developed a number of themes which have a predominantly visual and spatial dimension. Pseudo-Dionysius’ contribution to the development of Christian visual culture, visual thinking and figural art-making are examined in this book to systematically investigate his long-lasting legacy and influence. The contributors embrace religious studies, philosophy, theology, art, and architectural history, to consider the depth of the interaction between the Corpus Dionysiacum and various aspects of contemporary Byzantine and western cultures, including ecclesiastical and lay power, politics, religion, and art.

Author : Francesca Dell'Acqua
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351811101

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Iconophilia by Francesca Dell'Acqua Pdf

Between the late seventh and the mid-ninth centuries, a debate about sacred images – conventionally addressed as ‘Byzantine iconoclasm’ – engaged monks, emperors, and popes in the Mediterranean area and on the European continent. The importance of this debate cannot be overstated; it challenged the relation between image, text, and belief. A series of popes staunchly in favour of sacred images acted consistently during this period in displaying a remarkable iconophilia or ‘love for images’. Their multifaceted reaction involved not only council resolutions and diplomatic exchanges, but also public religious festivals, liturgy, preaching, and visual arts – the mass-media of the time. Embracing these tools, the popes especially promoted themes related to the Incarnation of God – which justified the production and veneration of sacred images – and extolled the role and the figure of the Virgin Mary. Despite their profound influence over Byzantine and western cultures of later centuries, the political, theological, and artistic interactions between the East and the West during this period have not yet been investigated in studies combining textual and material evidence. By drawing evidence from texts and material culture – some of which have yet to be discussed against the background of the iconoclastic controversy – and by considering the role of oral exchange, Iconophilia assesses the impact of the debate on sacred images and of coeval theological controversies in Rome and central Italy. By looking at intersecting textual, liturgical, and pictorial images which had at their core the Incarnate God and his human mother Mary, the book demonstrates that between c.680–880, by unremittingly maintaining the importance of the visual for nurturing beliefs and mediating personal and communal salvation, the popes ensured that the status of sacred images would remain unchallenged, at least until the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century.

Author : Krešimir Purgar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030718305

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The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies by Krešimir Purgar Pdf

This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today. In the first part, the book gives readers an historical overview and basic diacronical explanation of the term image, including the ways it has been used in different periods throughout history. In the second part, the fundamental concepts that have to be mastered should one wish to enter into the emerging field of Image Studies are explained. In the third part, readers will find analysis of the most common subjects and topics pertaining to images. In the fourth part, the book explains how existing disciplines relate to Image Studies and how this new scholarly field may be constructed using both old and new approaches and insights. The fifth chapter is dedicated to contemporary thinkers and is the first time that theses of the most prominent scholars of Image Studies are critically analyzed and presented in one place.

Author : Robin M. Jensen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520975736

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From Idols to Icons by Robin M. Jensen Pdf

Even the briefest glance at an art museum’s holdings or an introductory history textbook demonstrates the profound influence of Christian images and art. From Idols to Icons tells the fascinating history of the dramatic shift in Christian attitudes toward sacred images from the third through the early seventh century. From attacks on the cult images of polytheism to the emergence of Christian narrative iconography to the appearance of portrait-type representations of holy figures, this book examines the primary theological critiques and defenses of holy images in light of the surviving material evidence for early Christian visual art. Against the previous assumption that fourth- and fifth-century Christians simply forgot or ignored their predecessors’ censure and reverted to more alluring pagan practices, Robin M. Jensen contends that each stage of this profound change was uniquely Christian. Through a careful consideration of the cults of saints’ remains, devotional portraits, and pilgrimages to sacred sites, Jensen shows how the Christian devotion to holy images came to be rooted in their evolving conviction that the divine was accessible in and through visible objects.

Author : Thomas Arentzen,Mary B. Cunningham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108476287

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The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium by Thomas Arentzen,Mary B. Cunningham Pdf

Images and texts tell various stories about the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, reflecting an important cult with strong doctrinal foundations.

Author : Andrew Paterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000600162

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Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons by Andrew Paterson Pdf

This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other well-established genres of ‘sacred portrait’ also produced during late antiquity, namely Roman imperial portraiture, Graeco-Egyptian funerary portraiture and panel paintings depicting non-Christian deities. Andrew Paterson addresses two fundamental questions about devotional portraiture – both Christian and non-Christian – in the late antique period. Firstly, how did artists visualise and construct these images of divine or sanctified figures? And secondly, how did their intended viewers look at, respond to, and even interact with these images? Paterson argues that a key factor of many of these portrait images is the emphasis given to the depicted gaze, which invites an intensified form of personal encounter with the portrait’s subject. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, theology, religion and classical studies.

Author : Dimitrios A. Vasilakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350163874

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Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy by Dimitrios A. Vasilakis Pdf

Showing the ontological importance of eros within the philosophical systems inspired by Plato, Dimitrios A. Vasilakis examines the notion of eros in key texts of the Neoplatonic philosophers, Plotinus, Proclus, and the Church Father, Dionysius the Areopagite. Outlining the divergences and convergences between the three brings forward the core idea of love as deficiency in Plotinus and charts how this is transformed into plenitude in Proclus and Dionysius. Does Proclus diverge from Plotinus in his hierarchical scheme of eros? Is the Dionysian hierarchy to be identified with Proclus' classification of love? By analysing The Enneads, III.5, the Commentary on the First Alcibiades and the Divine Names side by side, Vasilakis uses a wealth of modern scholarship, including contemporary Greek literature to explore these questions, tracing a clear historical line between the three seminal late antique thinkers.

Author : Balázs M. Mezei,Francesca Aran Murphy,Kenneth Oakes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198795353

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The Oxford Handbook of Divine Revelation by Balázs M. Mezei,Francesca Aran Murphy,Kenneth Oakes Pdf

This Handbook offers a systemic approach to the notion of revelation in its various theoretical contexts. It provides in-depth coverage of the theoretical and historical fields in which the notion of revelation is discussed.

Author : Kjetil Kringlebotten
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666771251

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Liturgy, Theurgy, and Active Participation by Kjetil Kringlebotten Pdf

Providing a metaphysical grounding for liturgical participation, this book argues that “active participation” in the liturgy must be understood principally as our participation in God’s act, particularly in the act of Christ, and only secondarily as our ritual involvement. Utilizing Neoplatonist philosophy, Kjetil Kringlebotten proposes that this should be understood in terms of theurgy, which is the human participation in divine action, which finds its consummation in the incarnation of Christ. Without the incarnation all acts will remain extrinsic and imposed but acts can become real and intrinsic precisely because the incarnation makes possible true union with the divine, a metaphysical union-in-distinction, without confusion, because this union is not extrinsic. Through union with Christ, as the one common focus of the divine-human relation, we can have true union with God and may offer true worship. In order to make sense of active participation, then, we need to understand theology in theurgic terms, where theurgy is understood not as a mechanical “coercion” of God but as a participation in His act, in creation and through Christ as the true theurgist, the “master theurgist,” Whose work transforms our act and the liturgy.

Author : Gillian B. Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000603323

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Sculpted Thresholds and the Liturgy of Transformation in Medieval Lombardy by Gillian B. Elliott Pdf

This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted “gateways” of churches in the north Italian region of Lombardy. Gillian B. Elliott examines the liturgical connection between the ciborium over the altar (the most sacred threshold inside the church), and the sculpted portals that appeared on church exteriors in medieval Lombardy. In cities such as Milan, Civate, Como, and Pavia, the liturgy of Saint Ambrose was practiced as an alternative to the Roman liturgy and the churches were constructed to respond to the needs of Ambrosian liturgy. Not only do the Romanesque churches in these places correspond stylistically and iconographically, but they were also linked politically in an era of intense struggle for ultimate regional authority. The book considers liturgical and artistic links between interior church furnishings and exterior church sculptural programs, and also applies new spatial methodologies to the interior and exterior of churches in Lombardy. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, architectural history, and religious studies.

Author : Paul Rorem
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195076646

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Pseudo-Dionysius by Paul Rorem Pdf

Dionysius the Areopagite is the pseudonymous author of an influential body of early (about 500 AD) Christian theological texts. Paul Rorem here explores the profound influence of these texts on medieval theolgy in the East and the West.

Author : Vladimir Kharlamov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000762563

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The Authorship of the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus by Vladimir Kharlamov Pdf

This monograph revisits one of the most debated aspects of Dionysian scholarship: the enigma of its authorship. To establish the identity of the author remains impossible. However, the legitimacy of the attribution of the corpus to Dionysius the Areopagite should not be seen as an intended forgery but rather as a masterfully managed literary device, which better indicates the initial intention of the actual author. The affiliation with Dionysius the Areopagite has metaphorical and literary significance. Dionysius is the only character in the New Testament who is unique in his conjunction between the apostle Paul and the Platonic Athenian Academy. In this regard this attribution, to the mind of the actual author of the corpus, could be a symbolic gesture to demonstrate the essential truth of both traditions as derived essentially from the same divine source. The importance of this assumption taken in its historical context highlights the culmination of the formation of the civilized Roman-Byzantine Christian identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015048131950

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Bibliographie D'histoire de L'art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481472

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Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture by Reviel Netz Pdf

A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.

Author : Eric D. Perl
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791480021

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Theophany by Eric D. Perl Pdf

The work of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite stands at a cusp in the history of thought: it is at once Hellenic and Christian, classical and medieval, philosophical and theological. Unlike the predominantly theological or text-historical studies which constitute much of the scholarly literature on Dionysius, Theophany is completely philosophical in nature, placing Dionysius within the tradition of ancient Greek philosophy and emphasizing, in a positive light, his continuity with the non-Christian Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus. Eric D. Perl offers clear expositions of the reasoning that underlies Neoplatonic philosophy and explains the argumentation that leads to and supports Neoplatonic doctrines. He includes extensive accounts of fundamental ideas in Plotinus and Proclus, as well as Dionysius himself, and provides an excellent philosophical defense of Neoplatonism in general.