Hell in the Byzantine World : a history of art and religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean / edited by Angeliki Lymberopoulou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duits, Rembrandt, author.

Contributor:

Lymberopoulou, Angeliki, editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hell--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Hell.

Byzantine antiquities.

Hell in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries since the emergence of the Christian faith. These landmark volumes provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. Particular emphasis is placed on images from churches across Venetian Crete, which are comprehensively collected and published for the first time. Crete was at the centre of artistic production in the late Byzantine world and beyond and its imagery was highly influential on traditions in other regions. The Cretan examples accompany rich comparative material from the wider Mediterranean - Cappadocia, Macedonia, the Peloponnese and Cyprus. The large amount of data presented in this publication highlight Hell's emergence in monumental painting not as a concrete array of images, but as a diversified mirroring of social perceptions of sin.

Contents:

Vol. 1. Essays / edited by Angeliki Lymberopoulou

vol. 2. A catalogue of the Cretan material / by Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Rembrandt Duits

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Oct 2021).

Title statement from Cover.

ISBN:

1-108-59683-5