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Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics in Byzantium
Language: en
Pages: 257
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Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-09 - Publisher: BRILL

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In Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics the authors explore the sacred stories, affective scripts and salvific songs which were the literature of Byzantine liturgic
Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Sarah Gador-Whyte
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book studies Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns, highlighting especially the relationship between theological themes and performative rhetoric.
Ways of Living Religion
Language: en
Pages: 373
Authors: Christina M. Gschwandtner
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This study provides a philosophical analysis of different types of religious experience, focusing on the lived experience of religion.
Performing the Gospels in Byzantium
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Roland Betancourt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focu
Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Andrew Mellas
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the p