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Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium

by Mellas Andrew

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of Byzantine liturgy

Unlocks the emotional significance of ancient hymns

You will deepen your understanding of liturgical practices

Explore the emotional depth of Byzantine liturgy through hymns.

This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during Great Lent and Holy Week in Constantinople. In doing so, it understands compunction as a liturgical emotion, intertwined with paradisal nostalgia, a desire for repentance and a wellspring of tears. For the faithful, liturgical emotions were embodied experiences that were enacted through sacred song and mystagogy. The three hymnographers chosen for this study span a period of nearly four centuries and had an important connection to Constantinople, which forms the topographical and liturgical nexus of the study. Their work also covers three distinct genres of hymnography: kontakion, kanon and sticheron idiomelon. Through these lenses of period, place and genre this study examines the affective performativity hymns and the Byzantine experience of compunction.
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  • Title

    Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    July 2020

  • Weight

    464g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108487597

  • ISBN-10

    1108487599

  • Eden Code

    5209251