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The Cult of the Martyr Euphemia in Byzantium.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marinis, Vasileios.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.
- Summary:
- The martyr Euphemia, a young woman who was put to death in 303 CE in Chalcedon, was one of the most popular saints in Byzantium. This book places every major aspect of Euphemia's cult within a wider social, historical, and ritual context. It views Euphemia not as a historical personality, but as a literary, theological, and artistic construct, best understood as a hagiographical heuristic that was used (and abused) by a variety of interested groups.
- Contents:
- Cover
- The Cult of the Martyr Euphemia in Byzantium
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations of Manuscript Locations
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Asterios of Amaseia's Ekphrasis on the Holy Martyr Euphemia
- Summary of the Ekphrasis
- Did the Paintings Really Exist?
- The Meaning of the Ekphrasis
- The Ekphrasis as an Answer to the Place of Paideia in Christianity
- The Ekphrasis as an Argument for the Superiority of the Written and Spoken Word
- Conclusions
- 3: Euphemia's Inviolate Body
- Summary of the Ancient Martyrdom
- The Ancient Martyrdom in the Context of the Genre
- Euphemia in the Ancient Martyrdom
- The Social and Theological Logic of the Ancient Martyrdom
- Chalcedon and Its Aftermath
- The Ancient Martyrdom in the Aftermath of Chalcedon
- 4: The Guardian of True Beliefs
- The Miracle of the Blood
- The Miracle of the Tomos
- The Liturgical Commemoration of Euphemia and the Council of Chalcedon
- The Kontakion
- The Kanon
- Euphemia in Constantinople
- 5 : Relics Lost and Found: euphemia and the iconoclastic controversy
- Summary of the Account
- Propaganda
- The Location of the Relics in Constantinople
- Iconoclasts and Relics
- Glykeria
- The Dispersion of the Relics
- Previous Scholarship on the Account
- History and Fiction, or the Historical and the Literary
- Canon and Archive
- 6: Three Medieval Texts about Euphemia
- Symeon Metaphrastes and His Work
- The Metaphrastian Martyrdom Account
- The Author of the Enkomion
- The Text
- Makarios Makres
- The Hypomnema
- 7: Euphemia's Churches and Images
- Churches
- The Martyrion by the Hippodrome
- The Fresco Decoration in the Martyrion
- Description of the Martyrdom Cycle
- 1. The Birth of Euphemia
- 2. Euphemia Teaching
- 3. Euphemia Debating the Proconsul and the Torture of Christians
- 4. The Wheel.
- 5. Euphemia in the Furnace and the Conversion of the Two Servants
- 6. The Martyrdom of Viktor and Sosthenes
- 7. The Torture with Weights
- 8. The Pit with the Sea Creatures
- 9. The Hidden Trap
- 10. The Beating with Rods
- 11. The Torture with Saws and a Supplicant
- 12. Death in the Arena
- 13. The Entombment of Euphemia
- 14. The Miracle of the Tomos and the Miracle of the Blood
- Some Notes on the Cycle
- Inscriptions in the Images
- Other Images in Euphemia's Church
- Euphemia's Church and the Metropolis of Chalcedon
- 8: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- abbreviations
- Works Cited
- Scriptural References Index
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780197580479
- OCLC:
- 1587118841
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