Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium
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Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium

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Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium

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Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the modern. Drawing on Patristic writing and on Byzantine literature and art, the book develops a fresh conceptual framework for approaching Byzantine perceptions of space and the environment. It takes readers on an imaginary flight over the Earth and its varied topographies of gardens and wilderness, mountains and caves, rivers and seas, and invites them to shift from the linear time of history to the cyclical time and spaces of the sacred - the time and spaces of eternal returns and revelations.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781316496916
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Table of contents
  8. List of plates
  9. List of figures
  10. List of maps
  11. Preface
  12. Acknowledgements
  13. List of abbreviations
  14. Introduction: placing topographies
  15. Part I Topos and cosmos
  16. Part II Land
  17. Part III Rock
  18. Part IV Water
  19. Epilogue
  20. References
  21. Index
  22. Plates