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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Byzantinisches Archiv ; 25.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 1614512612
  • 9781614512615
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 111/.8509495 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1623.T56 A37 2013
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • FE 3225
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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.
Summary: 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 present a wide variety of issues and methodologies that will be of interest to students and scholars of the philosophy, art, and literature of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period.

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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.

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 present a wide variety of issues and methodologies that will be of interest to students and scholars of the philosophy, art, and literature of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period.