Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium: The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107139442ISBN-10:1107139449UPC:9781107139442Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Europe, Christian TheologyBook Topic:EschatologySize:10.42 x 7.35 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SC49F91ZRK
For all their reputed and professed preoccupation with the afterlife, the Byzantines had no systematic conception of the fate of the soul between death and the Last Judgement. Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium marries for the first time liturgical, theological, literary, and material evidence to investigate a fundamental question: what did the Byzantines believe happened after death? This interdisciplinary study provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of hagiography, theological treatises, apocryphal texts and liturgical services, as well as images of the fate of the soul in manuscript and monumental decoration. It also places the imagery of the afterlife, both literary and artistic, within the context of Byzantine culture, spirituality, and soteriology. The book intends to be the definitive study on concepts of the afterlife in Byzantium, and its interdisciplinary structure will appeal to students and specialists from a variety of areas in medieval studies.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107139442ISBN-10:1107139449UPC:9781107139442Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Europe, Christian TheologyBook Topic:EschatologySize:10.42 x 7.35 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SC49F91ZRK
Marinis, Vasileios: - Vasileios Marinis is Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at Yale University, Connecticut. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the Aidan Kavanagh Prize for Outstanding Scholarship at Yale University, a fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, the S. C. and P. C. Coleman Senior Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and a Humboldt fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen. Professor Marinis has published on a variety of topics ranging from early Christian tunics decorated with New Testament scenes to medieval tombs, graffiti, and Byzantine transvestite nuns. He is the author of Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople (Cambridge, 2014).
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