Liturgy and the emotions in Byzantium: compunction and hymnody
"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 e...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA
Cambridge University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Further subjects: | B
Repentance
Orthodox Eastern Church
B Hymns, Greek History and criticism B Orthodox Eastern Church Liturgy History B Lenten hymns (Turkey) (Istanbul) History and criticism B Romanus Melodus, Saint (active 6th century) B Emotions Religious aspects Orthodox Eastern Church B Andrew of Crete, Saint (approximately 660-740) B Kassianē (approximately 810-) |
| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1108487599 |