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Nine - Ars Sacra in the East and after Byzantium

from II - Images, Objects, Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2024

Elizabeth S. Bolman
Affiliation:
Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma
Jack Tannous
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
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Through the analysis two liturgical artworks–rhipidia or liturgical fans–this chapter considers two worlds beyond the traditional geographical and chronological borders of Byzantium. First, it addresses a set of early thirteenth-century liturgical fans today in Paris and Marienmont that speak to Syrian Orthodox identity and the cultural networks forged among local Christian communities between Mosul and the Wadi al-Natrun. Then it turns to the mid-sixteenth century liturgical fan commissioned by Patriarch Makarije Sokolovic for the church of St. Nicholas in Banja, Serbia, that triangulates Orthodox-Ottoman networks and rivalries after Byzantium ceased to be a political entity. In attending to both these precious liturgical objects and the communities that they triangulated the chapter exposes a temporal dialectic between, on the one hand, a sense of venerable timelessness associated with ars sacra and, on the other, the timely politics and formal strategies in worlds beyond Byzantium’s ever-shifting borders.

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Worlds of Byzantium
Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East
, pp. 252 - 279
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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