TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marinis, Vasileios
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2014//
TI  - Architecture and ritual in the churches of Constantinople: ninth to fifteenth centuries
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Church architecture
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Istanbul
KW  - History
KW  - Architecture, Byzantine
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - Liturgy and architecture
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Architecture and society ; Turkey ; Istanbul ; History ; To 1500
KW  - Liturgy and architecture ; Turkey ; Istanbul ; History ; To 1500
KW  - Church architecture ; Turkey ; Istanbul ; History ; To 1500
KW  - Architecture, Byzantine ; Turkey ; Istanbul
KW  - Rites and ceremonies ; Byzantine Empire
KW  - Istanbul (Turkey) ; Buildings, structures, etc
KW  - Istanbul (Turkey)
KW  - Buildings, structures, etc
AB  - This book examines the interchange of architecture and ritual in the Middle and Late Byzantine churches of Constantinople (ninth to fifteenth centuries). It employs archaeological and archival data, hagiographic and historical sources, liturgical texts and commentaries, and monastic typika and testaments to integrate the architecture of the medieval churches of Constantinople with liturgical and extra-liturgical practices and their continuously evolving social and cultural context. The book argues against the approach that has dominated Byzantine studies: that of functional determinism, the view that architectural form always follows liturgical function. Instead, proceeding chapter by chapter through the spaces of the Byzantine church, it investigates how architecture responded to the exigencies of the rituals, and how church spaces eventually acquired new uses. The church building is described in the context of the culture and people whose needs it was continually adapted to serve. Rather than viewing churches as frozen in time (usually the time when the last brick was laid), this study argues that they were social constructs and so were never finished, but continually evolving
SN  - 9781139628587
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139628587
DO  - 10.1017/CBO9781139628587
LA  - English
N1  - Vasileios Marinis, Assistant Professor of Christian Art and Architecture, the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University
ID  - 88348269X
ER  -