Experiencing Byzantium : papers from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Newcastle and Durham, April 2011 / edited by Claire Nesbitt, Durham University, UK and Mark Jackson, Newcastle University, UK. - xvi, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies publications ; 18 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Experiencing Byzantium / Claire Nesbitt and Mark Jackson -- Things : art and experience in Byzantium / Liz James -- Repetition and replication : sacred and secular patterned textiles / Warren T. Woodfin -- Experiencing the sacred / Béatrice Caseau -- Experiencing the liturgy in Byzantium / Andrew Louth -- Different approaches to an early Byzantine monument : Procopius and Ibn Battuta on the Church of St. John at Ephesos / Nikolaos Karydis -- Locating Byzantine monasteries : spatial considerations and strategies in the rural landscape / Nikolas Bakirtzis -- Experiencing Politiko : new methodologies for analysing the landscape of a rural Byzantine society / Katie Green -- Processing emotion : litanies in Byzantine Constantinople / Vicky Manolopoulou -- Experiencing ritual the cross of light : experiencing divine presence in Byzantine Syria / Heather Hunter-Crawley -- Experiencing mid-Byzantine mortuary practice : shrouding the dead / Sophie V. Moore -- How Icelanders experienced Byzantium, real and imagined / Scott Ashley -- Experiencing physical beauty in Byzantium : the body and the ideal / Myrto Hatzaki -- Experiencing self : how mid-Byzantine historians presented their experience / Dion C. Smythe -- Experiencing the Byzantine text, experiencing the Byzantine tent / Margaret Mullett -- Sensing ascension in early Byzantium / Georgia Frank -- From earth to heaven : the changing musical soundscape of Byzantine liturgy / Alexander Lingas.

9781472412294 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2013010549


Art, Byzantine--Congresses.
Cultural landscapes--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.
Identity (Psychology)--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.


Byzantine Empire--Civilization--Congresses.
Byzantine Empire--Religion--Congresses.
Byzantine Empire--Social life and customs--Congresses.

DF521 .S67 2011

949.5/013