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In the Shadow of Hagia Sophia
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Theodore G. Karakostas
Categories: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-25 - Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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The book consists of the author's various pilgrimages to Orthodox Christian sites in Greece, Constantinople, and Jerusalem and includes historical and theologic
Hagia Sophia
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Bissera V. Pentcheva
Categories: Byzantine chants
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Penn State University Press

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Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, and acoustics
Istanbul
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Nora Fisher
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-28 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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The sensual icon
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Bissera V
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Penn State Press

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"Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appeara
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