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- Explores the manner in which Patristic authors refer to the religious needs of the human soul
- Argues that hagiographic iconography along the Via Egnatia from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries should be understood both within a biological and a spiritual framework
- Analyses aspects of the circulation of Bogomil ideas in the Balkans and the reaction in Byzantine iconography to their dissemination
Part of the book series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture (NABHC)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines ideas of spiritual nourishment as maintained chiefly by Patristic theologians –those who lived in Byzantium. It shows how a particular type of Byzantine frescoes and icons illustrated the views of Patristic thinkers on the connections between the heavenly and the earthly worlds. The author explores the occurrence, and geographical distribution, of this new type of iconography that manifested itself in representations concerned with the human body, and argues that these were a reaction to docetist ideas. The volume also investigates the diffusion of saints’ cults and demonstrates that this took place on a North-South axis as their veneration began in Byzantium and gradually reached the northern part of Europe, and eventually the entirety of Christendom.
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of History and Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Elena Ene D-Vasilescu
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heavenly Sustenance in Patristic Texts and Byzantine Iconography
Book Subtitle: Nourished by the Word
Authors: Elena Ene D-Vasilescu
Series Title: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98986-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98985-3Published: 01 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07553-8Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98986-0Published: 22 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9363
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 196
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, History of Religion, Cultural History, Ancient History, Medieval Literature