Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium
Veronica della Dora
ISBN: | 9781316494608 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Published: | 4 February, 2016 |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium
Veronica della Dora
Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the modern. Drawing on Patristic writing and on Byzantine literature and art, the book develops a fresh conceptual framework for approaching Byzantine perceptions of space and the environment. It takes rea
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