Manipulating Theophany : : Light and Ritual in North Adriatic Architecture (ca. 400–ca. 800) / / Vladimir Ivanovici.
Using light as fil rouge reuniting theology and ritual with the architecture, decoration, and iconography of cultic spaces, the present study argues that the mise-en-scène of fifth-century baptism and sixth-century episcopal liturgy was meant to reproduce the luminous atmosphere of heaven. Analysing...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 261 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Paulinus of Nola and the New Visual Rhetoric of Sanctity
- I. Light in Late Antique Baptismal Theory and Practice
- II. Light in the Context of the Eucharistic Liturgy
- III. Conclusion
- IV. Excursus: The Tempietto Longobardo in Cividale
- Bibliography
- Index of Persons
- Index of Places