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- Worlds of Byzantium
- Worlds of Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- One Worlds of Byzantium
- I Patterns, Paradigms, Scholarship
- II Images, Objects, Archaeology
- Six Movement and Creation
- Seven Letters from the Edge
- Eight Antioch after Dark
- Nine Ars Sacra in the East and after Byzantium
- Ten The Church of the Virgin in Dayr al-Suryān (Wadi al-Natrun)
- Eleven Three Questions Concerning Armenian and Byzantine Art
- Twelve Makurian Visual Culture
- III Languages, Confessions, Empire
- Index
- References
Nine - Ars Sacra in the East and after Byzantium
from II - Images, Objects, Archaeology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2024
- Worlds of Byzantium
- Worlds of Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- One Worlds of Byzantium
- I Patterns, Paradigms, Scholarship
- II Images, Objects, Archaeology
- Six Movement and Creation
- Seven Letters from the Edge
- Eight Antioch after Dark
- Nine Ars Sacra in the East and after Byzantium
- Ten The Church of the Virgin in Dayr al-Suryān (Wadi al-Natrun)
- Eleven Three Questions Concerning Armenian and Byzantine Art
- Twelve Makurian Visual Culture
- III Languages, Confessions, Empire
- Index
- References
Summary
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 ByzantiumReligion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East, pp. 252 - 279Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024