Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium
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Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium

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Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium

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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).

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040245903
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Half Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. I Sacred Image, Sacred Power
  10. II Icons and Icon Piety in Early Byzantium
  11. III Ruminations on Edible Icons: Originals and Copies in the Art of Byzantium
  12. IV Graceland as Locus Sanctus
  13. V Byzantine Pilgrims' Art
  14. VI Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Devotionalia as Evidence of the Appearance of Pilgrimage Shrines
  15. VII Pilgrims in Magi's Clothing: The Impact of Mimesis on Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art
  16. VIII 'Guided by Land and Sea': Pilgrim Art and Pilgrim Travel in Early Byzantium
  17. IX Art, Medicine, and Magic in Early Byzantium
  18. X Art and Marriage in Early Byzantium
  19. XI Two Byzantine Amuletic Armbands and the Group to which They Belong
  20. XII Two Unpublished Pilgrim Tokens in the Benaki Museum and the Group to which They Belong
  21. XIII Early Christian and Byzantine Rings in the Zucker Family Collection
  22. XIV The Trier Ivory, Adventus Ceremonial, and the Relics of St. Stephen
  23. XV Meaning in Coptic Funerary Sculpture
  24. Index