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Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople

Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries

by Vasileios Marinis

  • Hardback
  • 257 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 17.8 x 25.4 x 1.7 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of Byzantine architecture

Reveals how rituals shaped church designs and uses

You will gain a deeper understanding of church evolution

This book explores the dynamic relationship between architecture and ritual in Byzantine churches from the ninth to fifteenth centuries.

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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.
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  • Author

    Vasileios Marinis

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    January 2014

  • Weight

    677g

  • Page Count

    257

  • Dimensions

    17.8 x 25.4 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781107040168

  • ISBN-10

    1107040167

  • Eden Code

    4245003

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