Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium: The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art

Vasileios Marinis

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Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium

The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art

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Vasileios Marinis, Yale University, Connecticut

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: January 2017
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9781316488850
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316488850

Subjects:: Area Studies, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000

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For all their reputed and professed preoccupation with the afterlife, the Byzantines had no systematic conception of the fate of the soul between death and the Last Judgement. Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium marries for the first time liturgical, theological, literary, and material evidence to investigate a fundamental question: what did the Byzantines believe happened after death? This interdisciplinary study provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of hagiography, theological treatises, apocryphal texts and liturgical services, as well as images of the fate of the soul in manuscript and monumental decoration. It also places the imagery of the afterlife, both literary and artistic, within the context of Byzantine culture, spirituality, and soteriology. The book intends to be the definitive study on concepts of the afterlife in Byzantium, and its interdisciplinary structure will appeal to students and specialists from a variety of areas in medieval studies.

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Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium

The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art

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Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium
pp i-ii

Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Figures
pp vii-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

A Note on Capitalization and Spelling
pp xiii-xiv

Abbreviations of Manuscript Locations
pp xv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-6

Part I - Theologies
pp 7-82

One - The Invention of Traditions: Jewish and Christian Apocrypha
pp 9-14

Two - The Diversity of the Afterlife in Late Antiquity
pp 15-27

Three - Continuity, Systematization, and Encyclopedism in the Middle Byzantine Period
pp 28-48

Four - Visualizing the Afterlife
pp 49-73

Five - Late Byzantium and the Encounter with the West
pp 74-82

Part II - Liturgies
pp 83-134

Six - The Afterlife of the Soul in Liturgical Services
pp 85-92

Seven - Helping and Remembering the Soul: Liturgical Commemorations and Prayers
pp 93-106

Eight - Two Exceptional Services
pp 107-130

Conclusions
pp 131-134

Appendix: The Text and Translation of the Kanon eis Psychorragounta
pp 135-140

Notes
pp 141-166

Bibliography
pp 167-190

Index
pp 191-202

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