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Landscape, nature, and the sacred in Byzantium, Veronica della Dora

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Landscape, nature, and the sacred in Byzantium, Veronica della Dora

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Landscape, nature, and the sacred in Byzantium

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

938434170

Responsibility statement

Veronica della Dora

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the modern. Drawing on Patristic writing and on Byzantine literature and art, the book develops a fresh conceptual framework for approaching Byzantine perceptions of space and the environment. It takes readers on an imaginary flight over the Earth and its varied topographies of gardens and wilderness, mountains and caves, rivers and seas, and invites them to shift from the linear time of history to the cyclical time and spaces of the sacred - the time and spaces of eternal returns and revelations.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction : placing topographies -- PART I. TOPOS AND COSMOS. Sacred topographies -- Sacred cosmographies -- PART II. LAND. Gardens -- Wilderness -- PART III. ROCK. Mountains -- Caves -- PART IV. WATER. Rivers -- Seas -- Epilogue

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