Christopher Walter

The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this study of the cult and iconography of Byzantine warrior saints, Christopher Walter delineates their origins and development as a distinctive category of saint, showing that in its definitive form this coincides with the apogee of the Byzantine empire in the 10th-11th centuries. With a repertory of their commemorations and representations, he sets out their iconographical types and the functions ascribed to them in the celestial army, supporting the terrestrial army on the offensive, and gaining a new protective role when it moved to the defensive. Features noted are the development of an echelon of military saints, notably in church decoration, which provides the surest basis for defining their specificity; and that their depiction, besides showing them as young, handsome and robust, resorted to 'twinning' them in pairs, calling attention to the camaraderie of soldiers. The work also opens a new perspective on the military history of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine ideology of war is seen consistently to follow that of the Israelites; protected and favoured by divine intervention, there was no need to discuss the morality of a 'just war'; and when considering Byzantine methods of warfare, due attention should be given to the important role they attributed to celestial help in their campaigns.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351880527
• Artikelnr.: 47392254

Autorenporträt

Long part of the Institut français d'études byzantines, and a member of the Assumptionist congregation in Paris, Christopher Walter is well-known for his work on the art and iconography of the Byzantine world. In addition to a great number of articles, many now collected in three selections, he is the author of Iconographie des conciles dans la tradition byzantine and Art and Ritual of the Byzantine Church.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword, George Huxley
Introduction
History and Antecedents: The Christian and Antique Background: The Old Testament
The New Testament
Pagan antiquity
The early Patristic period
The contribution of popular piety to the conception of the warrior saint
The Byzantine Warrior Saints: The Major Warrior Saints: The Etat Major: St Theodore Tiron and St Theodore Stratelates
St Demetrius
St Procopius
St Mercurius
St George
Other Major Warrior Saints: Sts Sergius and Bacchus
St Eustathius
St Kyrion and the XL Martyr of Sebasteia
St Hieron and the Martyrs of Melitene
St Menas of Egypt
St Artemius
St Arethas
St Martin of Tours
St Phanourios
The Minor Warrior Saints: St Christopher
St Cornelius the Centurion
The Holy Five of Sebasteia with Saints Orestes and Eustratius
Saint Joannicius
Saints Juventinus and Maximinus
Saint Longinus
Saints Nestor and Lupus
Saint Nicetas (Nikita)
Saint Philotheus of Antioch
Saint Phoibammon
Saints Polyeuctus and Nearchus
Saint Sabbas Stratelates
Saint Sissinius of Antioch
Saint Speusippus and companions
Saint Zosimus
Appendix
Towards a Characterisation of the Warrior Saint: The terrestrial career of Warrior Saints
The beginnings of the cult of Warrior Saints
The early iconography of Warrior Saints
The emergence of an echelon of Warrior Saints
The function of Warrior Saints in the lives of terrestrial men
The aesthetics of Warrior Saints
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.