Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PART I THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE
- 1 The Byzantine Commonwealth 1000–1550
- 2 Byzantium and the west 1204–1453
- 3 The culture of lay piety in medieval Byzantium 1054–1453
- 4 The rise of hesychasm
- 5 Art and liturgy in the later Byzantine Empire
- 6 Mount Athos and the Ottomans c. 1350–1550
- 7 The Great Church in captivity 1453–1586
- 8 Orthodoxy and the west: Reformation to Enlightenment
- 9 Bars’kyj and the Orthodox community
- 10 The legacy of the French Revolution: Orthodoxy and nationalism
- PART II THE RUSSIAN CHURCH
- PART III EASTERN CHRISTIANITIES
- PART IV THE MODERN WORLD
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
5 - Art and liturgy in the later Byzantine Empire
from PART I - THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- PART I THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE
- 1 The Byzantine Commonwealth 1000–1550
- 2 Byzantium and the west 1204–1453
- 3 The culture of lay piety in medieval Byzantium 1054–1453
- 4 The rise of hesychasm
- 5 Art and liturgy in the later Byzantine Empire
- 6 Mount Athos and the Ottomans c. 1350–1550
- 7 The Great Church in captivity 1453–1586
- 8 Orthodoxy and the west: Reformation to Enlightenment
- 9 Bars’kyj and the Orthodox community
- 10 The legacy of the French Revolution: Orthodoxy and nationalism
- PART II THE RUSSIAN CHURCH
- PART III EASTERN CHRISTIANITIES
- PART IV THE MODERN WORLD
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
It is generally assumed that by the eleventh century the text of the Byzantine liturgy was well established and was performed in a consistent manner throughout much of the Greek-speaking world. For the Eucharist, this assumption is essentially true, though some evolution was still to take place with the widespread adoption of the Eucharistic liturgy of John Chrysostom in preference to that of St Basil and with the expansion of the prothesis rite, that is, the prefatory rite before the beginning of the Eucharist. For the feasts of the church year, however, this is less true, as new poetic pieces were still being composed for, and saints being added to, the basic calendar of commemorations even after the end of the empire. Of most importance for the history of the liturgy in this period was the merging of the liturgy of the Great Church of Constantinople with Palestinian monastic rites: a process which started in the ninth century and was only completed in the twelfth. The pomp and circumstance of the former was enriched by the poetic hymnody of the latter. However, even as late as the fifteenth century, the church of Thessalonike continued to preserve elements of the Asmatike akolouthia, as the liturgy of the Great Church was known. Its elaborate ceremonies had some influence on the art of the Balkans in the fourteenth century.
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- The Cambridge History of Christianity , pp. 127 - 153Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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