Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium
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Afbeeldingen (algemeen)
anthropological approaches religion
Art
Art byzantin
Art paleochretien
Aufsatzsammlung
Author_Gary Vikan
Bijgeloof
Byzantijnse kunst
Byzantine
Byzantine material culture
Byzantinisches Reich
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Christelijke kunst
Christliche Kunst
cult of saints studies
Devotional objects Orthodox Eastern Church
Devotionalie
Early Christian
early Christian devotional objects
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Fruhchristentum
Kunst
magical practices in antiquity
Objets de devotion Eglise orthodoxe
Pilger
pilgrimage rituals
Religieuze voorwerpen
religious artefacts
Product details
- ISBN 9780860789345
- Weight: 760g
- Dimensions: 169 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 29 Oct 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In these studies Gary Vikan has opened new perspectives on the daily life and material culture of Late Antiquity - more specifically, on icons and relics, and on objects revealing of the world of pilgrimage, the early cult of saints, and marriage. He contextualizes these familiar categories of object in the patterns of belief and ritual extracted from contemporary texts and the objects themselves, in order to understand their meaning within the everyday lives of those by whom and for whom they were made. The studies give a nuanced delineation of the inherently ambiguous boundary between conventional religion and magic, noting repeatedly those instances wherein the two are invoked in the same breath (and by way of the same art object), toward the same end. From this historically constructed matrix of art, belief, and ritual, the author derives an anthropologically defined paradigm of charisma and pilgrimage (applied in one essay, as an intriguing parallel, to deconstructing the world of a contemporary secular "saint," Elvis Presley).
Dr Gary Vikan is Director of the Walters Art Museum and Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
