Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium - The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art

Informationen zum Autor 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 membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey,and a Humboldt fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen. Professor Marinis has published on a variety of topics ranging from early Christian tunics decorated with New Testament scenes to medieval tombs, graffiti, and Byzantine transvestite nuns. He is the author of Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople (Cambridge, 2014). Klappentext This interdisciplinary study investigates what the Byzantines believed about the fate of the soul after death. Zusammenfassung 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! to investigate what the Byzantines believed about the fate of the soul after death. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Theologies: 1. The invention of traditions: Jewish and Christian apocrypha; 2. The diversity of the afterlife in Late Antiquity; 3. Continuity, systemization, and encyclopedism in the Middle Byzantine period; 4. Visualizing the afterlife; 5. Late Byzantium and the encounter with the West; Part II. Liturgies: 6. The afterlife of the soul in liturgical services; 7. Helping and remembering the soul: liturgical commemorations and prayers; 8. Two exceptional services; Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Vasileios Marinis, Vasileios (Yale University Marinis, Marinis Vasileios
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781107139442
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13944-2
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; European History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox, HISTORY / Byzantine Empire, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Byzantine Empire, Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, Orthodox & Oriental Churches