The Historia Ekklesiastike kai Mystike Theoria: a symbolic understanding of the Byzantine church building
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Vasileios Marinis
Abstract
This paper offers a close reading of the passages in the Historia Ekklesiastike kai Mystike Theoria, a liturgical commentary attributed to Germanos I, patriarch of Constantinople (d. 730), that pertain to the church building. The Historia’s interpretation is highly symbolic, steeped in scripture and dependent on earlier and contemporary theological thought. On occasion, the text sheds light on actual architectural developments, as in the case of the skeuophylakion. On the whole, however, the discussion of architecture is rather vague. I argue that the Historia is part of a long exegetical tradition on the liturgy that disregards the functional aspects of church buildings, a disconnect enabled by the adaptability of Byzantine liturgical rites.
© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Siglenverzeichnis
- I. Abteilung
- East Central Europe: the gate to Byzantium
- The invocation of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel attributed to Metrophanes metropolitan of Smyrna (BHG 1292)
- The Church of St. Catherine in Thessalonike: its topographical setting and the current state of scholarship
- Zwischen Wüste und Welt: die Konstruktion des Raumes in den byzantinischen erbaulichen Erzählungen
- Nature and deliberation in Bessarion’s De natura et arte
- The Historia Ekklesiastike kai Mystike Theoria: a symbolic understanding of the Byzantine church building
- The pleasure of mudslinging: an invective dialogue in verse from 10th century Byzantium
- An unedited antirrhetic discourse by the patriarch of Constantinople Kallistos I
- Barbarians and brothers-in-arms
- Kaiser Justin II. (565–578) als Konsul auf Folles der Münzstätte Kyzikos
- La ‹monnaie› présumée et perdue de l’impératrice Théophano (959–969)
- II. Abteilung
- III. Abteilung
- Bibliographische Notizen Und Mitteilungen
- Totentafel
- Autoren- Und Herausgeberverzeichnis Zu Band 108, Heft 1 Und 2
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Siglenverzeichnis
- I. Abteilung
- East Central Europe: the gate to Byzantium
- The invocation of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel attributed to Metrophanes metropolitan of Smyrna (BHG 1292)
- The Church of St. Catherine in Thessalonike: its topographical setting and the current state of scholarship
- Zwischen Wüste und Welt: die Konstruktion des Raumes in den byzantinischen erbaulichen Erzählungen
- Nature and deliberation in Bessarion’s De natura et arte
- The Historia Ekklesiastike kai Mystike Theoria: a symbolic understanding of the Byzantine church building
- The pleasure of mudslinging: an invective dialogue in verse from 10th century Byzantium
- An unedited antirrhetic discourse by the patriarch of Constantinople Kallistos I
- Barbarians and brothers-in-arms
- Kaiser Justin II. (565–578) als Konsul auf Folles der Münzstätte Kyzikos
- La ‹monnaie› présumée et perdue de l’impératrice Théophano (959–969)
- II. Abteilung
- III. Abteilung
- Bibliographische Notizen Und Mitteilungen
- Totentafel
- Autoren- Und Herausgeberverzeichnis Zu Band 108, Heft 1 Und 2
