Aesthetics and theurgy in Byzantium [electronic resource] / edited by Sergei Mariev and Wiebke-Marie Stock.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Byzantinisches Archiv ; 25.
Main Authors:	Mariev, Sergei (Author, Editor of compilation) Stock, Wiebke-Marie (Author, Editor of compilation)
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin : Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]
Series:	Byzantinisches Archiv ; 25.
Subjects:	Theurgy > Byzantine Empire. Christianity > Byzantine Empire. Philosophy, Medieval.
Online Access:	ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2013 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) EBSCO eBooks: 2013 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2013 (EBSCO)
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Introduction: Byzantine aesthetics / Sergei Mariev
Theurgy and aesthetics in Dionysios the Areopagite / Wiebke-Marie Stock
Nikephoros Chumnos' treatise on matter / Monica Marchetto
Proklos and Plethon on beauty / Sergei Mariev
Toward a self-determined and emotional gaze: Agathias and the icon of the Archangel Michael / Aglae Pizzone
Book and image in Byzantine Christianity: polemics or communication? / Barbara Crostini
Transcendent exemplarism and immanent realism in the philosophical work of John of Damaskos / Alberto del Campo Echevarría
"Fire walk with me": an attempt at an interpretation of theurgy and its aesthetics / Lutz Bergemann
Contribution of church Slavonic translations to understanding of Byzantine anti-iconoclast polemics (the case of the letter of the three patriarchs to Theophilos) / Dmitry Afinogenov
Historical memory of Byzantine iconoclasm in the 14th c.: the case of Nikephoros Gregoras and Philotheos Kokkinos / Lev Lukhovitskij.