Sacred mobilities in Byzantium and beyond : people, objects and relics / edited by Veronica della Dora, Charalambos Dendrinos, Mark Guscin, David Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Della Dora, Veronica, editor.

Series:

Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 140.

The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500, 0928-5520 ; volume 140

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orthodox Eastern Church--Miscellanea.

Orthodox Eastern Church.

Travel--Religious aspects--Orthodox Eastern Church.

Travel.

Space and time--Religious aspects--Orthodox Eastern Church.

Space and time.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization.

Byzantine Empire.

Physical Description:

xiv, 360 pages illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025]

Summary:

"Questions about space and the sacred are now central to Byzantine studies. Recent scholarship has addressed issues of embodiment and performance, power and identity, environmental perceptions and territorial imaginations. At the same time, the mobility turn in the humanities prompts new approaches to and understandings of processes of circulation of people, objects and ideas. Drawing together illuminating contributions from scholars in history, art history, literature, geography, architecture and theology, Sacred Mobilities in Byzantium and Beyond sets the stage for further cross-disciplinary dialogue concerning Orthodox Christian spiritual culture and society in the Byzantine Empire and in the centuries after its fall. Contributors are Veronica della Dora, Ekaterine Gedevanishvili, Molly Greene, Mark Guscin, Christos Antonios Kakalis, Chrysovalantis Kyriacou, Maria Litina, Andrew Louth, Mihail Mitrea, Bissera Pentcheva, Rehav Rubin, and David Williams."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introducing Sacred Mobilities / Veronica della Dora

The Monastery of Hosios Loukas as a Bilderfahrzeug of the Constantinopolitan Liturgy / Bissera V. Pentcheva

Mobility of Text: a Key to Understanding the Murals of the Svip'i Façade Painting / Ekaterine Gedevanishvili

The Translation of the Image of Edessa to Constantinople: Politics, Religion and Dynastic Ambition / Mark Guscin

Running to the Saints with the Wings of Faith: Mobility and Legitimacy in Late Byzantine Miracle Collections / Mihail Mitrea

Memory, Translating Sacra, and the Making of Shared Sacred Spaces: Hagia Sophia and the Church of St John in Damascus (5th-17th c.) / David Williams

Sacred Mobilities and Multiple Identities: Early Modern Christians from Cyprus and the Shadow of Byzantium / Chrysovalantis Kyriacou

Mountain Mobilities: the Monastic Landscape of Pindos / Molly Greene

Sacred Mobilities and the Metochia of the Holy Sepulchre in the Balkans (1845-1900) / Maria Litina

Sacred Topographies and Travelling Memorabilia: the Proskynētaria of the Holy Land / Rehav (Buni) Rubin

Assembling a Limen: the Biography of an Iconostasis / Christos Antonios Kakalis

Sacred Mobilities: Afterword / Andrew Louth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sacred mobilities in Byzantium and beyond

ISBN:

9789004701588

9004701583

OCLC:

1436908834