Sacred Mobilities in Byzantium and Beyond

People, Objects and Relics
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-70158-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 140, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

della Dora, Veronica

Dendrinos, Charalambos

Guscin, Marc

Williams, David John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introducing Sacred Mobilities

Veronica della Dora

2 The Monastery of Hosios Loukas as a Bilderfahrzeug of the Constantinopolitan Liturgy

Bissera V. Pentcheva

3 Mobility of Text: a Key to Understanding the Murals of the Svip‘i Façade Painting

Ekaterine Gedevanishvili

4 The Translation of the Image of Edessa to Constantinople: Politics, Religion and Dynastic Ambition

Mark Guscin

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

Mihail Mitrea

6 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

7 Sacred Mobilities and Multiple Identities: Early Modern Christians from Cyprus and the Shadow of Byzantium

Chrysovalantis Kyriacou

8 Mountain Mobilities: the Monastic Landscape of Pindos

Molly Greene

9 Sacred Mobilities and the Metochia of the Holy Sepulchre in the Balkans (1845–1900)

Maria Litina

10 Sacred Topographies and Travelling Memorabilia: the Proskynetaria of the Holy Land

Rehav (Buni) Rubin

11 Assembling a Limen: the Biography of an Iconostasis

Christos Antonios Kakalis

12 Sacred Mobilities: Afterword

Andrew Louth

Über Autor(innen)

Veronica della Dora, Ph.D. (2005), UCLA, is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her publications span cultural geography, the history of cartography and Byzantine studies. Her books include Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Charalambos Dendrinos, Ph.D. (1996), Royal Holloway, University of London, is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine Literature and Greek Palaeography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research covers the sacred in different religions, and editions of Byzantine texts. He recently coedited Bibliophilos (de Gruyter, 2021).

Mark Guscin, Ph.D. (2015), Royal Holloway, University of London, is a Research Associate of the Hellenic Institute of that university and a freelance writer. He is the author of The Tradition of the Image of Edessa (Cambridge Scholars, 2016) and The Image of Edessa (Brill, 2009).

Revd David John Williams is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests focus on Byzantine spirituality, sacred materialities, cross religious dialogue, shared sacred spaces and syncretism.