RT Book
T1 Landscape, nature, and the sacred in Byzantium
A1 Della Dora, Veronica 1976-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883310074
AB Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the modern. Drawing on Patristic writing and on Byzantine literature and art, the book develops a fresh conceptual framework for approaching Byzantine perceptions of space and the environment. It takes readers on an imaginary flight over the Earth and its varied topographies of gardens and wilderness, mountains and caves, rivers and seas, and invites them to shift from the linear time of history to the cyclical time and spaces of the sacred - the time and spaces of eternal returns and revelations.
AB Introduction : placing topographies -- PART I. TOPOS AND COSMOS. Sacred topographies -- Sacred cosmographies -- PART II. LAND. Gardens -- Wilderness -- PART III. ROCK. Mountains -- Caves -- PART IV. WATER. Rivers -- Seas -- Epilogue
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2016)
CN BX323
SN 9781316488386
K1 Sacred Space : Byzantine Empire
K1 Religion and geography
K1 Nature : Religious aspects : Orthodox Eastern Church
K1 Nature ; Religious aspects ; Orthodox Eastern Church
K1 Sacred space ; Byzantine Empire
K1 Byzantine Empire ; Civilization ; 527-1081
K1 Byzantine Empire : Civilization : 527-1081
DO 10.1017/CBO9781316488386