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--publisher's Website. Saints And The Calendar Of The Church Year. Canon And Calendar: The Role Of A Ninth-century Hymnographer In Shaping The Celebration Of The Saints -- The Imperial Menologia And The Menologion Of Basil Ii -- Three Saints At Hosios Loukas -- Marking Holy Time: The Byzantine Calendar Icons -- The Evergetis Synaxarion And The Celebration Of A Saint In Twelfth-century Art And Liturgy -- Narrative Icons. Vita Icons And Decorated Icons Of The Komnenian Period -- The Vita Icon And The Painter As Hagiographer -- Saints And The Faithful. The Tomb Of Isaak Komnenos At Pherrai -- Close Encounters: Contact Between Holy Figures And The Faithful As Represented In Byzantine Works Of Art -- The Reprsentation Of Donors And Holy Figures On Four Byzantine Icons -- Icons And Liturgical Performances. Icons In The Liturgy -- Servants Of The Holy Icon -- The Five Hymnographers At Nerezi -- Holy Places, Holy Relics. The Hermit As Stranger In The Desert -- The Cave Of The Apocalypse -- The Limburg Staurothek And Its Relics -- The Monastery Of Mount Sinai And The Cult Of St Catherine -- Addenda And Corrigenda. Nancy P. Ševčenko. Collection Of Seventeen Essays Previously Published Between 1984 And 2008. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.

lgrsnf/The Celebration of the Saints in Byzantine Art and Liturgy.pdf

Nancy Patterson Ševčenko

Sevcenko, Nancy P.

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Gower Publishing Ltd

The Hakluyt Society

Ashgate Variorum

Ashgate (Firm)

Collected studies, CS975, Farnham, Surrey, 2013

Collected studies, CS975, Farnham, UK, 2012

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), Oxford, 2013

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Collected studies, Surrey, UK, ©2013

Cover
Series
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
SAINTS AND THE CALENDAR OF THE CHURCH YEAR
I Canon and calendar: the role of a ninth-century hymnographer in shaping the celebration of the saints
II The imperial Menologia and the “Menologion” of Basil II
III Three saints at Hosios Loukas
IV Marking holy time: the Byzantine calendar icons
V The Evergetis Synaxarion and the celebration of a saint in twelfth-century art and liturgy
NARRATIVE ICONS
VI Vita icons and “decorated” icons of the Komnenian period
VII The vita icon and the painter as hagiographer
SAINTS AND THE FAITHFUL
VIII The tomb of Isaak Komnenos at Pherrai
IX Close encounters: contact between holy figures and the faithful as represented in Byzantine works of art
X The representation of donors and holy figures on four Byzantine icons
ICONS AND LITURGICAL PERFORMANCES
XI Icons in the liturgy
XII “Servants of the holy icon”
XIII The five hymnographers at Nerezi
HOLY PLACES, HOLY RELICS
XIV The hermit as stranger in the desert
XV The Cave of the Apocalypse
XVI The Limburg Staurothek and its relics
XVII The monastery of Mount Sinai and the cult of St Catherine
Addenda and corrigenda
Index of manuscripts
General index

2024-10-19