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Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium: The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art
Vasileios Marinis
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Description for Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium: The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art
hardcover. This interdisciplinary study investigates what the Byzantines believed about the fate of the soul after death. Num Pages: 214 pages, 3 b/w illus. 35 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC8; HRCM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 188 x 262 x 18. Weight in Grams: 636.
For all their reputed and professed preoccupation with the afterlife, the Byzantines had no systematic conception of the fate of the soul between death and the Last Judgement. Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium marries for the first time liturgical, theological, literary, and material evidence to investigate a fundamental question: what did the Byzantines believe happened after death? This interdisciplinary study provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of hagiography, theological treatises, apocryphal texts and liturgical services, as well as images of the fate of the soul in manuscript and monumental decoration. It also places the imagery of the afterlife, both ... Read more
For all their reputed and professed preoccupation with the afterlife, the Byzantines had no systematic conception of the fate of the soul between death and the Last Judgement. Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium marries for the first time liturgical, theological, literary, and material evidence to investigate a fundamental question: what did the Byzantines believe happened after death? This interdisciplinary study provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of hagiography, theological treatises, apocryphal texts and liturgical services, as well as images of the fate of the soul in manuscript and monumental decoration. It also places the imagery of the afterlife, both ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
635g
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107139442
SKU
V9781107139442
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99-16
About Vasileios Marinis
Vasileios Marinis is Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at Yale University, Connecticut. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the Aidan Kavanagh Prize for Outstanding Scholarship at Yale University, a fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, the S. C. and P. C. Coleman Senior Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a ... Read more
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