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The Sensual Icon Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium

Paperback • 2010 • English • 1. edition

The Sensual Icon Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium

By Bissera V. Pentcheva

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Today we take the word "icon" to mean "a sign," or we equate it with portraits of Christ and the saints. In The Sensual Icon, Bissera Pentcheva demonstrates how icons originally manifested the presence of the Holy Spirit in matter. Christ was the ideal icon, emerging through the Incarnation; so, too, were the bodies of the stylites (column-saints) penetrated by the divine pneuma (breath or spirit), or the Eucharist, or the Justinianic space of Hagia Sophia filled with the reverberations of chant...Show more

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ISBN

9780271035833

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Sensual Icon Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium

Format

Paperback

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