Aesthetics and Theurgy in Byzantium / / ed. by Sergei Mariev, Wiebke-Marie Stock.
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 cent...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Byzantinisches Archiv : Als Ergänzung zur Byzantinischen Zeitschrift ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
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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