Processions : urban ritual in Byzantium and neighboring lands / edited by Leslie Brubaker and Nancy Patterson Ševčenko.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Brubaker, Leslie, editor.

Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson, editor.

Dumbarton Oaks, host institution.

Conference Name:

Processions: urban ritual in Byzantium and neighboring lands (2019 : Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.), author.

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Processions--Byzantine Empire--History--Congresses.

Processions.

Processions--Mediterranean Region--History--Congresses.

Processions, Religious--Byzantine Empire--History--Congresses.

Processions, Religious.

Rites and ceremonies--Byzantine Empire--History--Congresses.

Rites and ceremonies.

Byzantine Empire--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Byzantine Empire.

Physical Description:

viii, 263 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2025]

Summary:

"Processions of all kinds-military, civic, religious, and more-were hallmarks of the ancient and medieval world. Yet urban processions in Byzantine culture have never been thoroughly studied, even though there were as many as two processions a week in Constantinople alone, often featuring eminent individuals like the emperor and the patriarch (and less prominent people, like the teams who decorated the streets). In an introduction and ten chapters, this volume examines a millennium of medieval processions through analysis of texts, artifacts, and images. Byzantium did not, of course, exist in a vacuum. Byzantine processions are here set alongside those occurring at the borders of the Byzantine world: the Latin West, the Islamic East, and, of course, Jerusalem, the center of the Mediterranean's sacred world. This comparative approach lets us better see how the Byzantines operated in a complex global network defined by local contexts, how the Byzantines positioned themselves within this network, and the nature of the Byzantine legacy to their Islamic, Catholic, and Orthodox inheritors"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Processions : an introduction / Leslie Brubaker with Nancy Ševčenko

"The things they carried" : religious processions in early Byzantium / Georgia Frank

Controlling material and semiotic landscapes : processions in the Late Antique Roman east / Nathanael Andrade

Bridging the gap : processions in early medieval Constantinople, 400-900 / Leslie Brubaker

Some notes on liturgical processions / Vasileios Marinis

Public processions in middle Byzantine Constantinople / Michael Featherstone

Sparkling creations, threads of tradition : Marian processions in medieval Constantinople / Christine Angelidi

Between urban conflict and civic integration : processions in Rome and Milan, ca. 1050-1150 / James Norrie

Relics, processions, and the ceremonial of legitimacy under the Fatimids and Almohads / Paula Sanders

Latin processions in Crusader Jerusalem : Melkite influence, change, and the Templum Domini / Sebastián Salvadó

Processions in early Palaiologan Constantinople : from Michael Palaiologos's theatrical spectacles to participatory performances under Andronikos II and Patriarch Athanasios I / Niels Gaul.

Notes:

Based on papers delivered at the Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium held April 12-13, 2019 at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780884025269

0884025268

OCLC:

1515057382