9 Icon, Eucharist, Relic: Negotiating the Division of Sacred Matter in Byzantium

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Preface VII
4. Contents IX
5. Contributors XI
6. List of Figures XIII
7. List of Abbreviations XIX
8. Introduction 1
9. 1 The Materiality of Charis in Early Byzantium 19
10. 2 The Animate Floor in Early Byzantium: Glass and Gold 61
11. 3 Early Christian and Byzantine Bread Stamps: An Ecology of Matter and Form 85
12. 4 Whence Agency? 103
13. 5 Miniature Materials, Major Monuments: Concrete Connections and Concrete Histories 121
14. 6 Materiality and Metonymy: Seeing the Eucharist through Stone and Glass in the Middle Byzantine Liturgy 137
15. 7 Being Material, Material Being: Ivory and Ontology 159
16. 8 The Place of Materiality in Byzantine Thought 177
17. 9 Icon, Eucharist, Relic: Negotiating the Division of Sacred Matter in Byzantium 193
18. 10 Icons, Relics, and the Substance of Things Half Seen 235
19. Afterword 257
20. Bibliography 263
21. Index 291