Hell in the Byzantine world: a history of art and religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean
The first in-depth presentation and analysis of the imagery for Hell from the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Byzantine Empire
/ Crete
/ Mediterranean (Ost)
/ Christian art
/ Hell (Motif)
/ Purgatory (Motif)
/ Last Judgment (Motif)
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
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| Summary: | The first in-depth presentation and analysis of the imagery for Hell from the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial Policy -- Volume 1 -- Introduction -- Part I Crete -- 1 From Crete to Hell: The Textual Tradition on Punishments in the Afterlife and the Writings of Joseph Bryennios on Crete -- 2 Venetian Crete: Τhe Historical Context -- 3 Hell on Crete -- 4 Hell from West to East: Western Resonances in Cretan Wall Painting -- Part II Eastern Mediterranean -- 5 When the Visual Order Was Established: The Last Judgement and Punishments in Hell in Byzantine Cappadocia -- 6 Damned in Hell, Damned in the Church: Imagery and Space in Byzantium -- 7 Images of Hell and the Afterlife in the Churches of Lakonia -- 8 Hell in the 'Sweet Land': Hell's Place in the Last Judgements of Byzantine and Medieval Cyprus -- Volume 2 -- Introduction -- I Chania -- II Rethymnon -- III Herakleion -- IV Lassithi -- V Chronological Arrangement of the Cretan Churches -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 1108851215 |