Approaching the holy mountain : art and liturgy at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai /

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Other Authors: Gerstel, Sharon E. J., Nelson, Robert S., 1947-

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Language: English

Published: Turnhout : [Brepols], c2010.

Series: Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ; 11.

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Call Number: BX387 .A67 2010

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245 0 0 |a Approaching the holy mountain :  |b art and liturgy at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai /  |c edited by Sharon E.J. Gerstel and Robert S. Nelson. 
246 3 0 |a Art and liturgy at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai 
264 1 |a Turnhout :   |b [Brepols],   |c c2010. 
300 |a xxx, 608 pages :  |b illustrations (some color) ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a Cursor mundi ;   |v 11. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a •List of Illustrations •Archbishop's Preface •Acknowledgements •List of Abbreviations •Sinai Studies: An Overview and an Introduction •Paving the Road to Sinai: Georgios and Maria Soteriou on the Holy Mountain •Place •The Transfigured Mountain: Icons and Transformations of Pilgrimage at the Monastery of St Catherine at Mount Sinai •Excavations on the Holy Summit (Jebel Musa) at Mount Sinai: Preliminary Remarks on the Justinianic Basilica •The Architecture of the Justinianic Basilica on the Holy Summit •Painted Skins: The Illusions and Realities of Architectural Polychromy, Sinai and Egypt •Liturgy •Worship on Sinai in the First Christian Millennium: Glimpses of a Lost World •Late Byzantine Cathedral Liturgy and the Service of the Furnace •Manuscript •Manuscript Production on Mount Sinai from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century •Sinai, MS gr. 2: Exploring the Significance of a Sinai Manuscript •Icon •Visualizing the Divine: An Early Byzantine Icon of the 'Ancient of Days' at Mount Sinai •Regarding Prayer: Contemplating an Icon of John the Forerunner •Archive and Atelier: Sinai and the Case of the Narrative Icon •Mural and Icon Painting Sinai in the Thirteenth Century •Sinai, Acre, Tripoli, and the 'Backwash from the Levant': Where Did the Icon Painters Work? •Sinai and Cyprus: Holy Mountain, Holy Isle •Space •Three East Slavic Pilgrims at Sinai •Turning Holy Mountains to Ladders to Heaven: Overlapping Topographies and Poetics of Space in Post-Byzantine Sacred Engravings of Mount Sinai and Mount Athos •On the Painted Ancestry of Domenikos Theotokopoulos's Sacred Landscapes of Mount Sinai and the Monastery of St Catherine •Plates •Index  
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610 2 0 |a Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)  |v Congresses. 
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650 0 |a Christian art and symbolism  |z Egypt  |z Sinai, Mount  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Icons, Byzantine  |z Egypt  |z Sinai, Mount  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine  |z Egypt  |z Sinai, Mount  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in art  |v Congresses. 
700 1 |a Gerstel, Sharon E. J.,  |9 30623 
700 1 |a Nelson, Robert S.,  |d 1947- 
830 0 |a Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ;  |v 11. 
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