The Celebration of the Saints in Byzantine Art and Liturgy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780367601799)

The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the 9th century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of saints through liturgical poetry and sequences of isolated images in fresco, icon painting and illuminated manuscripts. Others are concerned with the longer and rarer, narrative cycles devoted to the life of a single saint, cycles found mainly in fresco and on the so-called vita icons that first appear in the East in the late 12th century. Additional studies deal with the developing role of icons in liturgical ceremonies, and with images of a saint being approached by a supplicant or patron. A final section is devoted to places made holy by the saints, and to their holy relics.

Author: Nancy P. Sevcenko
ISBN-10: 0367601796
ISBN-13: 9780367601799
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2020
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.78d