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      • Andrew Mellas, St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College, NSW
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2020
      July 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108767361
      9781108487597
      9781108720670
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767361
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 220 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 220 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Religion, Church History
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    This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during Great Lent and Holy Week in Constantinople. In doing so, it understands compunction as a liturgical emotion, intertwined with paradisal nostalgia, a desire for repentance and a wellspring of tears. For the faithful, liturgical emotions were embodied experiences that were enacted through sacred song and mystagogy. The three hymnographers chosen for this study span a period of nearly four centuries and had an important connection to Constantinople, which forms the topographical and liturgical nexus of the study. Their work also covers three distinct genres of hymnography: kontakion, kanon and sticheron idiomelon. Through these lenses of period, place and genre this study examines the affective performativity hymns and the Byzantine experience of compunction.

    Reviews

    ‘… the book makes a firm statement of the importance of Byzantine hymnody and it is an excellent example of such a study. Furthermore, it convinces the reader of the beauty and spirituality of the ocean of Byzantine texts.’

    Per-Arne Bodin Source: Journal of Early Christian Studies

    ‘… a highly useful guide to the contemporary research on Byzantine liturgy as performed and experienced.’

    Maria Takala-Roszczenko Source: Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies

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