The embodied icon : liturgical vestments and sacramental power in Byzantium
In spite of the Orthodox liturgy's reputation for resistance to change, Byzantine liturgical dress underwent a period of extraordinary elaboration from the end of the eleventh century onwards. As part of this development, embroideries depicting holy figures and scenes began to appear on the vestments of the clergy. Examining the surviving Byzantine vestments in conjunction with contemporary visual and textual evidence, this book relates their embroidered imagery both to the programme of images used in churches, and to the hierarchical code of dress prevailing in the imperial court
Print Book,English, 2012
Oxford University Press, Oxford [Great Britain], 2012
History
xxxv, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
9780199592098, 0199592098
714724958
pt. 1. Liturgical vestments in the Orthodox Church. The vestments of the Byzantine Rite described
Moving pictures : embroidered vestments and the iconography of the church interior
Liturgical mystagogy and the embodied image
pt. 2. Liturgical vestments in Byzantine society. Earthly rivalry : imperial and ecclesiastical dress
As it is in heaven : vesture and the unseen world
Conclusions
Appendix A. Handlist of embroidered vestments to c.1500
Appendix B. Embroidered vestments described in Byzantine texts
Appendix C. Vesting prayers according to the Textus receptus of the Greek Rite
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with English translations