Performing the Gospels in Byzantium - Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. The Lectionary: Image and Text: 1. Beginnings and Initials: Text, Image, and Sound; 2. Miniatures and Marginalia: A Visual Grammar and Syntax; 3. Faltering Images: Iconography between Reading, Error, and Confusion; Part II. The Liturgy: Sound and Architecture: 4. The Reading of the Lectionary: Recitation, Inspiration, and Embodiment; 5. The Sound of the Lectionary: Chant, Architecture, and Salvation; 6. Polyvalent Images: Iconography between Image, Space, and Sound; Epilogue.

About the author

Roland Betancourt is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been awarded the distinction of Chancellor's Fellow from 2019-2022. Previously, he was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His published books include Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium (Cambridge, 2018) and Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (2020). His ongoing work focuses on Byzantine temporality and simulacral spaces, past and present.

Summary

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focuses on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century and combines insights and approaches from sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history.

Product details

• Authors: Roland Betancourt, Roland (University of California Betancourt, Betancourt Roland
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781108491396
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49139-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Christianity, History of Religion, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Church history, Medieval style