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Author:   Jelena Bogdanović
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.010kg
ISBN:  

9780367723491

ISBN 10:   0367723492
Pages:   422
Publication Date:   27 July 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction PART I: SACRED SPACE, ITS TRACES, AND REPRESENTATIONS 1. Sacred Spaces vs Holy Sites: On the Limits and Advantages of a Hierotopic Approach 2. Image-Paradigms: The Aesthetics of the Invisible 3. Dazzling Radiance: A Paradigm and a Quiz in Byzantine Chorography and Hierotopy 4. The Concept of Temenos and the Sectioning of Light 5. Byzantine Architectural Form Between Iconicity and Chôra 6. Hierochronotopy: Stepping into Timeful Space through Bonanno’s Twelfth Century Door for the Pisa Cathedral PART II: ICONS AND HOLY OBJECTS IN SACRED SPACE 7. The Marvelous Hierotopy of the Golden Altar in Milan: A Visual Constantinopolitan Fascination? 8. The Patriarchal Quarters in the South Gallery of Hagia Sophia: Where was the Patriarch’s Throne? 9. Seeing Toponymic Icons Hierotopically 10. The Adoration of the Magi: From Iconic Space to Icon in Space 11. Encountering Presence: Icon/Relic/Viewer PART III: EMBODIED EXPERIENCES OF SACRED SPACE 12. The Shrines of the Holy King Stefan the First-Crowned in the Sacral Topography of Serbian Lands 13. Travelling Objects and Topographies of Salvation: Agencies and Afterlives of Two Post-Byzantine Proskynētaria 14. The Sacred Space of the State and its Direction 15. Back to the Top of the Mountain: A Syrian Protological Theme in Late Antique and Medieval Representations of the World to Come 16. Rapture, Ecstasy, and the Construction of Sacred Space: Hierotopy in the Life of Symeon the New Theologian

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Jelena Bogdanović is Associate Professor at Iowa State University, USA. She specializes in cross-cultural and religious themes in the architecture of the Balkans and Mediterranean. Her publications include The Framing of Sacred Space: The Canopy and the Byzantine Church (2017), and Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium (2018).

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