Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy

ISBN-13: 9780367723491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 422 str.

Jelena Bogdanovic

Opis

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renowned art historian Alexei Lidov. It will appeal to scholars and students of Byzantine history, as well as those interested in hierotopy and art history.

Spis treści

Introduction  PART I: SACRED SPACE, ITS TRACES, AND REPRESENTATIONS  1. Sacred Spaces vs Holy Sites: On the Limits and Advantages of a Hierotopic Approach  2. Image-Paradigms: The Aesthetics of the Invisible  3. Dazzling Radiance: A Paradigm and a Quiz in Byzantine Chorography and Hierotopy  4. The Concept of Temenos and the Sectioning of Light  5. Byzantine Architectural Form Between Iconicity and Chôra  6. Hierochronotopy: Stepping into Timeful Space through Bonanno’s Twelfth Century Door for the Pisa Cathedral  PART II: ICONS AND HOLY OBJECTS IN SACRED SPACE  7. The Marvelous Hierotopy of the Golden Altar in Milan: A Visual Constantinopolitan Fascination?  8. The Patriarchal Quarters in the South Gallery of Hagia Sophia: Where was the Patriarch’s Throne?  9. Seeing Toponymic Icons Hierotopically  10. The Adoration of the Magi: From Iconic Space to Icon in Space  11. Encountering Presence: Icon/Relic/Viewer  PART III: EMBODIED EXPERIENCES OF SACRED SPACE  12. The Shrines of the Holy King Stefan the First-Crowned in the Sacral Topography of Serbian Lands  13. Travelling Objects and Topographies of Salvation: Agencies and Afterlives of Two Post-Byzantine Proskynētaria  14. The Sacred Space of the State and its Direction  15. Back to the Top of the Mountain: A Syrian Protological Theme in Late Antique and Medieval Representations of the World to Come  16. Rapture, Ecstasy, and the Construction of Sacred Space: Hierotopy in the Life of Symeon the New Theologian  

O autorze

Jelena Bogdanović is Associate Professor at Iowa State University, USA. She specializes in cross-cultural and religious themes in the architecture of the Balkans and Mediterranean. Her publications include The Framing of Sacred Space: The Canopy and the Byzantine Church (2017), and Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium (2018).