TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marinis, Vasileios
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - Death and the afterlife in Byzantium: the fate of the soul in theology, liturgy, and art
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - New York
KW  - Death
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - Future life
KW  - Death ; Byzantine Empire
KW  - Future life ; Byzantine Empire
AB  - For all their reputed and professed preoccupation with the afterlife, the Byzantines had no systematic conception of the fate of the soul between death and the Last Judgement. Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium marries for the first time liturgical, theological, literary, and material evidence to investigate a fundamental question: what did the Byzantines believe happened after death? This interdisciplinary study provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of hagiography, theological treatises, apocryphal texts and liturgical services, as well as images of the fate of the soul in manuscript and monumental decoration. It also places the imagery of the afterlife, both literary and artistic, within the context of Byzantine culture, spirituality, and soteriology. The book intends to be the definitive study on concepts of the afterlife in Byzantium, and its interdisciplinary structure will appeal to students and specialists from a variety of areas in medieval studies.
SN  - 9781316488850
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316488850
DO  - 10.1017/9781316488850
LA  - English
N1  - Vasileios Marinis, Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture, The Institute of Sacred Music, Divinity School, Yale University
ID  - 893450871
ER  -