Aesthetics and theurgy in Byzantium

Aesthetics and theurgy in Byzantium / edited by Sergei Mariev and Wiebke-Marie Stock.

In comparisonwith the wave of research dedicated to the aesthetics of the Latin Middle Ages, Byzantine aesthetics must be considered a relatively new and still largely unexplored subject. The contributions assembled in the present volume document the growing research interest in this field and prese...

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Main Authors: Mariev, Sergei (Author, Editor), Stock, Wiebke-Marie (Author, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]
Series:Byzantinisches Archiv ; 25.
Subjects:
Theurgy > Byzantine Empire.
Christianity > Byzantine Empire.
Philosophy, Medieval.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Christianity
Philosophy, Medieval
Theurgy
Byzantine Empire
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Byzantine aesthetics / Sergei Mariev
  • Theurgy and aesthetics in Dionysios the Areopagite / Wiebke-Marie Stock
  • Nikephoros Chumnos' treatise on matter / Monica Marchetto
  • Proklos and Plethon on beauty / Sergei Mariev
  • Toward a self-determined and emotional gaze: Agathias and the icon of the Archangel Michael / Aglae Pizzone
  • Book and image in Byzantine Christianity: polemics or communication? / Barbara Crostini
  • Transcendent exemplarism and immanent realism in the philosophical work of John of Damaskos / Alberto del Campo Echevarría
  • "Fire walk with me": an attempt at an interpretation of theurgy and its aesthetics / Lutz Bergemann
  • Contribution of church Slavonic translations to understanding of Byzantine anti-iconoclast polemics (the case of the letter of the three patriarchs to Theophilos) / Dmitry Afinogenov
  • Historical memory of Byzantine iconoclasm in the 14th c.: the case of Nikephoros Gregoras and Philotheos Kokkinos / Lev Lukhovitskij.

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