Autorentext
ANDREW MELLAS is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at St Andrew's Theological College and Honorary Associate in the Medieval and Early Modern Centre at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the history of emotions in Byzantium and the liturgical intersections of hymnody and hagiography. He is the author of Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: Compunction and Hymnody (Cambridge, 2020). BRONWEN NEIL FAHA is Professor of Ancient History in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University, Sydney, and head of the Religion section of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Her research focuses on eastern Roman cultural history from the fourth to tenth centuries, with an emphasis on east-west church relations, letters, gender and hagiography. She is the author of Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad (4001000 CE) (2021), and co-author with Pauline Allen of Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity: The Christianisation of a Literary Form (Cambridge, 2020) and Conflict and Negotiation in the Early Church (2020).

Klappentext
The Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church explores the intricate dimensions of the Church in Byzantium-its emergence, theology, art, liturgy and histories-and its afterlife, in captivity and in the modern world. Thirty leading theologians and historians of eastern Rome examine how people from Greece to Russia lived out their faith in liturgies, veneration of the saints, and other dimensions of church life, including its iconic art and architecture. The authors provide a rich overview and insights from the latest scholarship on the lives and beliefs of emperors and subjects across the Byzantine empire. The volume thereby fills a prominent gap in current offerings on the development and continuing impacts of the Byzantine church from the fourth to fifteenth centuries, and will serve as a valuable resource for scholars, a companion for students and an introduction for the wider community to this fascinating chapter in the history of Christianity.

Inhalt

Contributors; Abbreviations; Foreword Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew; Introduction Andrew Mellas and Bronwen Neil; Part I. Outlines of the Byzantine Church: 1. Emergence of the Byzantine church Brian Croke; 2. Hellenism, philosophy and the church David Bradshaw; 3. The church in the desert and the city John Chryssavgis and Andrew Mellas; 4. Women in the Byzantine church Sarah Gador-Whyte; 5. Emperors and Bishops Justin Pigott; 6. Dissidence and persecution Ryan Strickler; 7. Schism in the Byzantine church George Demacopoulos; Part II. Theology: 8. Defining the faith in councils Richard Price; 9. Christology Bogdan Bucur; 10. Mariology Mary Cunningham; 11. Pneumatology Doru Costache; 12. Anthropology Ashley Purpura; 13. Eschatology Bronwen Neil; 14. The Byzantine church and the west Edward Siecienski; Part III. Experiencing the Liturgy: 15. Liturgy at the great church after Iconoclasm Daniel Galadza; 16. Experiencing scripture Roland Betancourt; 17. Hymnology Damaskinos Olkinuora; 18. Iconic subjects Rossitza Schroeder; 19. Hagiography Albrecht Berger; 20. Architecture Vasileios Marinis; Part IV. Living the Faith: 21. Monasticism Olympia Nelson; 22. Charity and almsgiving Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen; 23. Pilgrimage Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos; 24. Singing and emotion Georgia Frank; 25. Heaven and hell Angeliki Lymberopoulou; Part V. The Late Byzantine Church and its Afterlife: 26. The Late Byzantine church Daniel Stauffer and Alexis Torrance; 27. The holy mountain Kosta Simic and Leonela Fundic; 28. Nationalism Vasilios Makrides; 29. The Byzantine rite today Stefanos Alexopoulos; 30. Orthodoxy, the church and the reception of Byzantium Przemys aw Marciniak.