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Questions about space and the sacred are now central to Byzantine studies. Recent scholarship has addressed issues of embodiment and performance, power and identity, environmental perceptions and territorial imaginations. At the same time, the mobility turn in the humanities prompts new approaches to and understandings of processes of circulation of people, objects and ideas. Drawing together illuminating contributions from scholars in history, art history, literature, geography, architecture and theology, Sacred Mobilities in Byzantium and Beyond sets the stage for further cross-disciplinary dialogue concerning Orthodox Christian spiritual culture and society in the Byzantine Empire and in the centuries after its fall. Contributors are Veronica della Dora, Ekaterine Gedevanishvili, Molly Greene, Mark Guscin, Christos Antonios Kakalis, Chrysovalantis Kyriacou, Maria Litina, Andrew Louth, Mihail Mitrea, Bissera Pentcheva, Rehav Rubin, and David Williams.

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Veronica della Dora, Ph.D. (2005), UCLA, is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her publications span cultural geography, the history of cartography and Byzantine studies. Her books include Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Charalambos Dendrinos, Ph.D. (1996), Royal Holloway, University of London, is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine Literature and Greek Palaeography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research covers the sacred in different religions, and editions of Byzantine texts. He recently coedited Bibliophilos (de Gruyter, 2021). Mark Guscin, Ph.D. (2015), Royal Holloway, University of London, is a Research Associate of the Hellenic Institute of that university and a freelance writer. He is the author of The Tradition of the Image of Edessa (Cambridge Scholars, 2016) and The Image of Edessa (Brill, 2009). Revd David John Williams is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests focus on Byzantine spirituality, sacred materialities, cross religious dialogue, shared sacred spaces and syncretism.

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