Death and the afterlife in Byzantium : the fate of the soul in theology, liturgy, and art /

For all their reputed and professed preoccupation with the afterlife, the Byzantines had no systematic conception of the fate of the soul between death and the Last Judgement. Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium marries for the first time liturgical, theological, literary, and material evidence to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marinis, Vasileios, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Death > Byzantine Empire.
Future life.
Mort > Empire byzantin.
Vie future.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Eschatology.
Death.
Jenseits
Kunst
Liturgie
Theologie
Auferstehung
Orthodoxe Kirche
Tod
Byzantine Empire.
Byzantinisches Reich
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Theologies. The invention of traditions : Jewish and Christian apocrypha
  • The diversity of the afterlife in late antiquity
  • Continuity, systematization, and encyclopedism in the middle Byzantine period
  • Visualizing the afterlife
  • Late Byzantium and the encounter with the west
  • Part II. Liturgies. The afterlife of the soul in liturgical services
  • Helping and remembering the soul : liturgical commemorations and prayers
  • Two exceptional services
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix. The text and translation of the Kanon eis Psychorragounta.

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