Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23-25 March 2002 [Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies]

LOUTH, Andrew & Augustine Casiday (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0754654966 / ISBN 13: 9780754654964

Edité par Ashgate Variorum, 2006

pp.xiv, 236 pages, a Fine - As New hardback in a like dust-jacket [0754654966]. We've just noticed a few pages with text underlined, so now downgraded to VG. N° de réf. du vendeur 43342

Synopsis :

The Byzantine Empire - the Christianized Roman Empire - very soon defined itself in terms of correct theological belief, 'orthodoxy'. The terms of this belief were hammered out, for the most part, by bishops, but doctrinal decisions were made in councils called by the Emperors, many of whom involved themselves directly in the definition of 'orthodoxy'. Iconoclasm was an example of such imperial involvement, as was the final overthrow of iconoclasm. That controversy ensured that questions of Christian art were also seen by Byzantines as implicated in the question of orthodoxy. The papers gathered in this volume derive from those presented at the 36th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Durham, March 2002. They discuss how orthodoxy was defined, and the different interests that it represented; how orthodoxy was expressed in art and the music of the liturgy; and how orthodoxy helped shape the Byzantine Empire's sense of its own identity, an identity defined against the 'other' - Jews, heretics and, especially from the turn of the first millennium, the Latin West. These considerations raise wider questions about the way in which societies and groups use world-views and issues of belief to express and articulate identity. At a time when, with the enlargement of the European Union, questions of identity within Europe are once again becoming pressing, there is much in these essays of topical relevance.

À propos de l?auteur: Andrew Louth is Professor and Augustine Casiday is Leverhulme Fellow, both in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham, UK.

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Titre : Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the ...
Éditeur : Ashgate Variorum
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Dust Jacket Included