Approaching the holy mountain : art and liturgy at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai /
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Language: English
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Turnhout :
[Brepols],
c2010.
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Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ;
11.
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Call Number: BX387 .A67 2010
Table of Contents:
- •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