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Aesthetics and theurgy in Byzantium /

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 prese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Mariev, Sergei (Autor, Editor ), Stock, Wiebke-Marie (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]
Colección:Byzantinisches Archiv ; 25.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.