Title Death and the afterlife in Byzantium : the fate of the soul in theology, liturgy, and art / Vasileios Marinis, Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture, the Institute of Sacred Music, Divinity School, Yale University

Published New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 202 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) Contents Introduction -- Part I. Theologies. The invention of traditions : Jewish and Christian apocrypha -- The diversity of the afterlife in late antiquity -- Continuity, systematization, and encyclopedism in the middle Byzantine period -- Visualizing the afterlife -- Late Byzantium and the encounter with the west -- Part II. Liturgies. The afterlife of the soul in liturgical services -- Helping and remembering the soul : liturgical commemorations and prayers -- Two exceptional services -- Conclusions -- Appendix. The text and translation of the Kanon eis Psychorragounta Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-189) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Death -- Byzantine Empire Future life. RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Eschatology. Death Future life Jenseits Kunst Liturgie Theologie Auferstehung Orthodoxe Kirche Tod SUBJECT Byzantine Empire. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80085269 Subject Byzantine Empire Byzantinisches Reich Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316488850 1316488853 9781316826782 1316826783 9781316826065 1316826066

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