Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures List of abbreviations List of contributors Acknowledgments Alexei Lidov: Biography Introduction PART I: Sacred spaces: their traces and representations 1 Sacred spaces versus holy sites: on the limits and advantages of a hierotopic approach 2 Image-paradigms: the aesthetics of the invisible 3 Dazzling radiance: a paradigm and a quiz in Byzantine chorography and hierotopy 4 The concept of temenos and the sectioning of light 5 Byzantine architectural form between iconicity and chôra 6 Hierochronotopy: stepping into timeful space through Bonanno’s twelfth-century door for the Pisa cathedral PART II: Icons and holy objects in sacred space 7 The marvellous Hierotopy of the golden altar in Milan: a visual Constantinopolitan fascination? 8 The patriarchal quarters in the south gallery of Hagia Sophia: where was the patriarch’s throne? 9 Seeing toponymic icons hierotopically 10 Virgin Mary and the Adoration of the Magi: from iconic space to icon in space 11 Encountering presence: icon/relic/viewer PART III: Embodied experiences of sacred space 12 The shrines of the Holy King Stefan the First-Crowned in the sacral topography of Serbian lands 13 Travelling objects and topographies of salvation: agencies and afterlives of two post-Byzantine proskynētaria 14 The sacred space of the state and its direction 15 Back to the top of the Mountain. A Syrian protological theme in the late antique and medieval representations of the world to come 16 Rapture, ecstasy, and the construction of sacred space: hierotopy in the life of Symeon the New Theologian Tabula Gratulatoria Bibliography. Alexei Lidov. Selected list of publications Bibliography – dictionaries – primary sources Bibliography Index