Spirituality in Late Byzantium: Essays Presenting New Research by International Scholars (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443813631)

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Spirituality in Late Byzantium: Essays Presenting New Research by International Scholars

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Spirituality in Late Byzantium: Essays Presenting New Research by International Scholars

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This collection of essays on late Byzantine spirituality presents new research covering a very important but less than well-documented period of Byzantine culture. Its thematic cohesion, originality of thought, variety of methodological approaches and broad intellectual range, make it a valuable contribution to the field and an asset for academics and students alike. The essays discuss pertinent historical, textual, liturgical and doctrinal matters, and through new evidence and re-appraisals of accepted scholarly views they seek to make their mark. Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction - Eugenia Russell Part I: The Seeds of hesychia and the Theologians of hesychasm Chapter One: The Reforming Abbot and his Tears: Penthos in late Byzantium Hannah Hunt Chapter Two: The Patriarch Philotheos Kokkinos and His Defence of Hesychasm Norman Russell Chapter Three: Symeon of Thessalonica and his Message of Personal Redemption Eugenia Russell Chapter Four: Reading Denys in late Byzantium: Gregory Palamas's Approach to the Theological Categories of 'apophasis' and 'union and distinction' James Blackstone Part II: Four Case Studies on Late Byzantine Spirituality Chapter Five: The 'Testament of Job': From Testament to Vita Maria Haralambakis Chapter Six: Donors and Iconography: The Case of the Church St. Virgin in Dolna Kamenitsa (XIV c.) Teodora Burnand Chapter Seven: The Church of the Most Pure Virgin at the Village of Graeshnitsa Robert Mihajlovski Chapter Eight: Journey of the Soul to Perfection: Nicetas Stethatos Jozef Matula Afterword - Eugenia Russell Illustrations List of Contributors About the Editor Index Hallowed be thy name

Author: Eugenia Russell
ISBN-10: 144381363X
ISBN-13: 9781443813631
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2009
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.80w x 1.10d
By Eugenia Russell
By Eugenia Russell
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Eugenia Russell studied for her PhD at the History Department, Royal Holloway, University of London under the supervision of Jonathan Harris. Her thesis on the Encomia to St Demetrius in Late Byzantine Thessalonica discusses classical and Biblical subtexts in a historical framework. It has also shown, in the words of her examiners, 'that the generally negative view of Byzantine literature that has long prevailed is untenable'. For her ambitious views on education and the dissemination of knowledge, in 2006 she won a competitive place on the Summer School of the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise, which was held at Birkbeck College, University of London. She organised an international conference in the following year. The resulting volume, Spirituality in Late Byzantium: Essays presenting new research by international scholars is to be published in 2009 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. She has given academic papers at Saint Xavier University, Chicago; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Trinity College, Dublin as well as many in the UK. She is a reviewer for the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and for the Southwest Journal of Cultures and a member of the Editorial Board of Social Histories, Pompeii: Open Access Journal. Her current research on the fifteenth century Greek emigre Andronikos Kallistos (c. 1400-1476) and his pupils crosses the boundaries between classical reception and the comparative study of vernacular literatures. An off-shoot of this study is a paper on Byzantine monodies and laudes and she is also preparing a paper on methodologies for Byzantinists.

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