Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity an... - 9780367592530

Taylor & Francis

Introduction: Encounters with the Holy, Jelena Bogdanovi\u0107 Part I THE IMMATERIAL AND PLACELESS SACRED 1. Images of Invisible Beauty in the Aesthetic Cosmology of Dionysius the Areopagite, Filip Ivanovi\u0107 Part II THE SACRED MADE PALPABLE 2. Monumental Icons and Their Bodies in Early Christian Rome and Byzantium, Maria Lidova 3. Imperial Bodies and Sacred Space? Imperial family images between monumental decoration and space definition in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Maria Cristina Carile 4. The Influence of Icons on the Perception of Living Holy Persons, Katherine Marsengill Part III THE SACRED DELIVERED 5. Delivering the Sacred: Representing Translatio on the Trier Ivory, Ljubomir Milanovi\u0107 6. Bodies in Motion: Visualizing Trinitarian Space in the Albenga Baptistery, Nathan S. Dennis 7. A Mobile Dialogue of an Immobile Saint: St. Symeon the Younger, Divine Liturgy, and the Architectural Setting, Ay\u015Fe Belgin-Henry 8. Framing Glorious Spaces in the Monastery of Hosiosy