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Description:The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine scholarship to study the phenomenon of St Anna's cult from the sixth until the fifteenth centuries. It was generated by the need to enrich our knowledge on a female saint who had already been studied in the West but remained virtually unknown in Eastern Christendom. It focuses on a completely underexposed figure in scholarship and examines the formation, establishment and promotion of an apocryphal saint, who made her way to the pantheon of Orthodox saints. Visual and material culture, relics and texts track the gradual social and ideological transformation of Byzantium from early Christianity and until the fifteenth century. This book infiltrates into various aspects of early Christian and Byzantine civilization and documents that the cult of saints strongly reflects cultural changes since it was manoeuvred accordingly to suit theological, social and political demands.The topography of Constantinople, its relation to haghiasmata and the creation of sacred space, the infiltration of the apocryphal Anna into hagiography, male and female imperial patronage, social reception of St Anna's story, relic narratives and visual evidence from the eighth until the fifteenth century justify the multiplicity of areas that the cult of St Anna touches upon and reveals unknown aspects and synthesizes otherwise uncorrelated pieces of Christian life.The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium not only examines how but answers why Byzantium attributed even scriptural authority to the story of a figure known only from a non-canonical work and therefore orientates scholarship to new areas of research.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies). To get started finding The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine scholarship to study the phenomenon of St Anna's cult from the sixth until the fifteenth centuries. It was generated by the need to enrich our knowledge on a female saint who had already been studied in the West but remained virtually unknown in Eastern Christendom. It focuses on a completely underexposed figure in scholarship and examines the formation, establishment and promotion of an apocryphal saint, who made her way to the pantheon of Orthodox saints. Visual and material culture, relics and texts track the gradual social and ideological transformation of Byzantium from early Christianity and until the fifteenth century. This book infiltrates into various aspects of early Christian and Byzantine civilization and documents that the cult of saints strongly reflects cultural changes since it was manoeuvred accordingly to suit theological, social and political demands.The topography of Constantinople, its relation to haghiasmata and the creation of sacred space, the infiltration of the apocryphal Anna into hagiography, male and female imperial patronage, social reception of St Anna's story, relic narratives and visual evidence from the eighth until the fifteenth century justify the multiplicity of areas that the cult of St Anna touches upon and reveals unknown aspects and synthesizes otherwise uncorrelated pieces of Christian life.The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium not only examines how but answers why Byzantium attributed even scriptural authority to the story of a figure known only from a non-canonical work and therefore orientates scholarship to new areas of research.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies). To get started finding The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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