Hell in the Byzantine World. A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries since the emergence of the Christian faith. These landmark volumes provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. Particular emphasis is placed on images from churches across Venetian Crete, which are comprehensively collected and published for the first time. Crete was at the centre of artistic production in the late Byzantine world and beyond and its imagery was highly influential on traditions in other regions. The Cretan examples accompany rich comparative material from the wider Mediterranean – Cappadocia, Macedonia, the Peloponnese and Cyprus. The large amount of data presented in this publication highlight Hell's emergence in monumental painting not as a concrete array of images, but as a diversified mirroring of social perceptions of sin. 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 Introduction 010 011 012 Outline placeholder 2 Venetian Crete: Τhe Historical Context 013 Outline placeholder 3 Hell on Crete Appendix 1 The Structural Diversity of Cretan Hell Appendix 2 Church Dedication Appendix 3 Greek Spelling and Transliteration of Inscriptions Featuring in the Text 016 Outline placeholder 4 Hell from West to East: Western Resonances in Cretan Wall Painting 017 018 019 Outline placeholder 6 Damned in Hell, Damned in the Church: Imagery and Space in Byzantium 020 Outline placeholder 7 Images of Hell and the Afterlife in the Churches of Lakonia 021 Outline placeholder 8 Hell in the ‘Sweet Land’: Hell’s Place in the Last Judgements of Byzantine and Medieval Cyprus 022 Introduction 023 Outline placeholder I Chania Outline placeholder 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