Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium write by Brooke Shilling. This book was released on 2016-10-13. Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures.
Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium
Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium write by Brooke Shilling. This book was released on 2016-10-13. Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, is surrounded on three sides by sea, and has no major river to deliver clean, potable water. However, the cultures that thrived in this remarkable waterscape through millennia have developed and sustained diverse water cultures and a water delivery system that has supported countless fountains, some of which survive today. Scholars address the delivery system that conveyed and stored water, and the fountains, large and small, from which it gushed. Papers consider spring water, rainwater and seawater; water suitable for drinking, bathing and baptism; and fountains real, imagined and symbolic. Experts in the history of art and culture, archaeology and theology, and poetry and prose, offer reflections on water and fountains across two millennia in one location.
The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium
The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium write by Eirini Panou. This book was released on 2018-05-11. The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine research to study the phenomenon of St Anna’s cult from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries. It was prompted by the need to enrich our knowledge of a female saint who had already been studied in the West but remained virtually unknown in Eastern Christendom. It focuses on a figure little-studied in scholarship and examines the formation, establishment and promotion of an apocryphal saint who made her way to the pantheon of Orthodox saints. Visual and material culture, relics and texts track the gradual social and ideological transformation of Byzantium from early Christianity until the fifteenth century. This book not only examines various aspects of early Christian and Byzantine civilisation, but also investigates how the cult of saints greatly influenced cultural changes in order to suit theological, social and political demands. The cult of St Anna influenced many diverse elements of Christian life in Constantinople, including the creation of sacred spaces and the location of haghiasmata (fountains of holy water) in the city; imperial patronage; the social reception of St Anna’s story; and relic narratives. This monograph breaks new ground in explaining how and why Byzantium and the Orthodox Church attributed scriptural authority to a minor figure known only from a non-canonical work.
Water Culture in Roman Society
Water Culture in Roman Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Culture in Roman Society write by Dylan Kelby Rogers. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Water Culture in Roman Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Water played an important part of ancient Roman life, from providing necessary drinking water, supplying bath complexes, to flowing in large-scale public fountains. The Roman culture of water was seen throughout the Roman Empire, although it was certainly not monolithic and it could come in a variety of scales and forms, based on climatic and social conditions of different areas. This article seeks to define ‘water culture’ in Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, while understanding modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water. The culture of water can be demonstrated through expressions of power, aesthetics, and spectacle. Further there was a shared experience of water in the empire that could be expressed through religion, landscape, and water’s role in cultures of consumption and pleasure.
Performing the Gospels in Byzantium
Performing the Gospels in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing the Gospels in Byzantium write by Roland Betancourt. This book was released on 2021-05-13. Performing the Gospels in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church.
