Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond : Papers from the 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, I. (Ine)

Series:

Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This volume introduces the insights of Material Religion to the field of Byzantine studies.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond

What Can Material Religion Do for Byzantium?

Embodiment, the Senses and Materiality in Byzantium

Contributions

Notes

References

Part I Movement of People: Space and Sites Arranged for Performative Human Mobility

2 Materializing Motion in the Early Byzantine Church: The Case of the Hama Cathedral

3 Meeting God in Seventh-Century Armenia: The Role of Monumental Painting in Lmbat and T'alin in Liturgy and Beyond

The Murals in Lmbat and T'alin

The Presence of God

The Vision Above and Below

The Open Gospel: A Theophany With a Political Meaning?

Conclusion

4 Movement in the Late Antique Religious Landscape of Alahan

Staging Alahan's Sacred Landscape

Movement in Alahan's Sacred Landscape

Part II Movement of Objects: The Mobility of Artefacts Within Their Worlds and to New Contexts

5 Non-Indigeneity and the Materiality of "Enclosure": Relics, Statues and Icons in Constantinople

Public Processions and Non-Indigeneity

Enclosure

Epilogue

6 Beyond the Borders, Outside the Frame: Translating Presence From Byzantium to the West After 1204

The Nature of Presence: Framing Byzantine Relics

Presence and Movement

Making Materials Manifest

Imperial Ruins and the Perception of Presence

7 Sacred Space Social-Time Machines: Accumulation Value and Material Affordances

Churches as Accumulations

Accumulations' Affordances and Temporality

Part III Objects and People: Reactions, Sensations and Bodies.

8 Placed Coins in Late Antiquity, Or How Archaeology Can Uncover Small-Scale Religious Transactions

Introduction

Placed Coins and the Material Economies of Religion

Examples From Civic, Sacred and Vernacular Late Antique Contexts

Process-Related and Conceptual Reasons for Neglect

Placed Coins, Placed Deposits and Religion in Late Antiquity

Conclusions

9 Putting On the Lord: The Bosom as a Locus for Private Devotion (Seventh to Ninth Centuries)

Amulets: Old Practices, Contemporary Needs

Embracing the Lord in Jerusalem

Embracing the Lord in Rome and in the West

10 Assemblage Icons: Composite Forms of Materiality in Byzantium and Beyond

Dynamism of the Assemblage Form

Human Elements of Assemblages

Emergent Properties

Agency And/or Affordance in Various Assemblages

Museum Assemblages and Liturgical Assemblages

Acknowledgments

11 Interactions With the Divine: Material Channels of Power and Social Cohesion Through Metalwork in Justinian's Empire

Performances of Sacredness: The Metal as Medium

Partaking in the Sacred Mysteries

Miracle Working Bones and Oil From the True Wood

Performances of the Micro Shrine Within the Church Building: Hagia Sophia of Constantinople as Model

The Church Entrance

The Sanctuary

Uniformity in the Practices of Veneration and Social Exchange: The Portability of the Micro Shrine

Wealth of the Church Silver and the Transmission of Power: The Example of St Nicholas of Sion in Lycia

The Symbols of the Micro Shrine and Their Serial Reproduction: Testimony of Metalware

Beyond the Church Space: From Solomon's Magic to the Universal Protection of the Church

Part IV The Natural World.

12 Cavernous Landscapes in the Byzantine Aegean: Materialities of Cult and Sensorial Topologies

What Is Special About Cavernous Spaces?

Byzantine Uses of Caves in the Aegean Region

Main Attributes of Byzantine Caves

Geographical Location: Connectedness and Mobility

Liminal Perceptions and Conceptions

Corporeal Experiences of Seclusion

Perceptions of Caves as Pockets of Memory

Conclusion: Caves as Landmarks Within "Palimpsest" Archaeological Landscapes

13 Intangible Materialities: Clouds and Paradox in Byzantine Spiritual Culture

Biblical Clouds: Textures and Theophanies

Patristic Clouds: Luminous Darkness and Physikē Theōria

Byzantine Clouds: Prefiguration and Paradox

Bibliography

14 Weather Control and Manuscript Margins in the Early Medieval West

Weather Magic and Normative Christian Discourse

Weather Incantations and Manuscripts' Margins

Coda

15 Catching Up: Byzantine Reverberations in the Material Study of Religion

Introduction: Catching Up

The Material Study of Religion

How to Conceptualize Religion?

"Material" and "Materiality"

Material Religion and New Materialism

Byzantine Reverberations

Index.

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ISBN:

1-04-051317-4

1-04-064045-1

1-003-49084-0

9781003490845

OCLC:

1555346632