Aesthetics and theurgy in Byzantium

Aesthetics and theurgy in Byzantium [electronic resource] / edited by Sergei Mariev and Wiebke-Marie Stock. - 1 online resource. - Byzantinisches Archiv ; 25 . - Byzantinisches Archiv ; 25. .

Introduction: Byzantine aesthetics / Sergei Mariev -- Theurgy and aesthetics in Dionysios the Areopagite / Wiebke-Marie Stock -- Nikephoros Chumnos' treatise on matter / Monica Marchetto -- Proklos and Plethon on beauty / Sergei Mariev -- Toward a self-determined and emotional gaze: Agathias and the icon of the Archangel Michael / Aglae Pizzone -- Book and image in Byzantine Christianity: polemics or communication? / Barbara Crostini -- Transcendent exemplarism and immanent realism in the philosophical work of John of Damaskos / Alberto del Campo Echevarría -- "Fire walk with me": an attempt at an interpretation of theurgy and its aesthetics / Lutz Bergemann -- Contribution of church Slavonic translations to understanding of Byzantine anti-iconoclast polemics (the case of the letter of the three patriarchs to Theophilos) / Dmitry Afinogenov -- Historical memory of Byzantine iconoclasm in the 14th c.: the case of Nikephoros Gregoras and Philotheos Kokkinos / Lev Lukhovitskij.

1614512612 (electronic bk.) 9781614512615 (electronic bk.)


Theurgy--Byzantine Empire.
Christianity--Byzantine Empire.
Philosophy, Medieval.
PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics


Electronic books.

BF1623.T56 / A37 2013

111/.8509495