Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

ISBN-13: 9781138561045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Opis

Examining various encounters with the holy in the medieval Mediterranean through the lens of the human body and perceptible dimensions of sacred space, the chapters in this volume discuss the complex dynamics of perception employed when experiencing what was constructed, represented, and understood as sacred. The comparative studies represented by the collection include investigations of viewers’ experiences and perceptions of the sacred in specific locations or segments of space with a focus on the relationships between sacred spaces and bodies, and the conceptual relationships between religious images, holy persons, and objects within sacred spaces.

Spis treści

Introduction: Encounters with the Holy, Jelena Bogdanović  Part I THE IMMATERIAL AND PLACELESS SACRED  1. Images of Invisible Beauty in the Aesthetic Cosmology of Dionysius the Areopagite, Filip Ivanović  Part II THE SACRED MADE PALPABLE  2. Monumental Icons and Their Bodies in Early Christian Rome and Byzantium, Maria Lidova  3. Imperial Bodies and Sacred Space? Imperial family images between monumental decoration and space definition in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Maria Cristina Carile  4. The Influence of Icons on the Perception of Living Holy Persons, Katherine Marsengill  Part III THE SACRED DELIVERED  5. Delivering the Sacred: Representing Translatio on the Trier Ivory, Ljubomir Milanović  6. Bodies in Motion: Visualizing Trinitarian Space in the Albenga Baptistery, Nathan S. Dennis  7. A Mobile Dialogue of an Immobile Saint: St. Symeon the Younger, Divine Liturgy, and the Architectural Setting, Ayşe Belgin-Henry  8. Framing Glorious Spaces in the Monastery of Hosios Loukas, Jelena Bogdanović  Conclusions. Iconic Perception and Noetic Contemplation of the Sacred, Jelena Bogdanović with Katherine Marsengill  Bibliography