Aesthetics and Theurgy in Byzantium / / ed. by Sergei Mariev, Wiebke-Marie Stock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Afinogenov, Dmitry,; Bergemann, Lutz,; Crostini, Barbara,; Echevarría, Alberto del Campo,; Lukhovitskij, Lev,; Marchetto, Monica,; Mariev, Sergei,; Pizzone, Aglae,; Stock, Wiebke-Marie,
• HerausgeberIn: Mariev, Sergei,; Stock, Wiebke-Marie,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Byzantinisches Archiv : Als Ergänzung zur Byzantinischen Zeitschrift , 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (239 p.)

The general scope of the present volume is to present a variety of approaches and topics within the growing field of research on Byzantine aesthetics. Theurgy in Neoplatonic and Christian contexts is represented by the contributions of W.-M. Stock and L. Bergemann; theories of beauty are at the centre of interest of the papers by S. Mariev and M. Marchetto. A. Pizzone approaches Byzantine aesthetics by looking for aesthetic experience in the literary texts, while the remaining contributions explore issues related to the iconoclast controversy: An important moment in the development of Byzantine philosophy on the eve of iconoclasm is the primary interest of A. del Campo Echevarría, who looks at the question of universals in John of Damaskos. The relationship between image and text in Byzantine illustrated manuscripts occupies the attention of B. Crostini. D. Afinogenov explores from a philological perspective the fate of important iconophile terminology in Old Bulgarian, while L. Lukhovitskij reconstructs from historical and philological perspectives the historical memory of the iconoclast controversy during the Late Byzantine Period.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Byzantine Aesthetics -- Theurgy and Aesthetics in Dionysios the Areopagite -- Nikephoros Chumnos’ Treatise On Matter -- Proklos and Plethon on Beauty -- Toward a selfdetermined and emotional gaze: Agathias and the icon of the Archangel Michael -- Book and Image in Byzantine Christianity: Polemics or Communication? -- Transcendent Exemplarism and Immanent Realism in the Philosophical Work of John of Damaskos -- ‘Fire Walk With Me’: an attempt at an interpretation of Theurgy and its Aesthetics -- Contribution of Church Slavonic Translations to Understanding of Byzantine Anti-Iconoclast Polemics (The Case of the Letter of the Three Patriarchs to Theophilos) -- Historical Memory of Byzantine Iconoclasm in the 14th c.: the Case of Nikephoros Gregoras and Philotheos Kokkinos -- INDEX