[PDF.27hp] The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium (Oxford Studies in Byzantium)

The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium (Oxford Studies in Byzantium)

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||3 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A Byzantine Religious Treasure|By Edward J. Stack|A scholarly treasure this book. My wife is a museum textile Curator !! and her head is buried in this book with glee. She missed the shows at the MET that this related to so well but the illustrations are fantastic here. I bought this for myself as I collect Russian Icons but am having to wait my turn. It is certainly not too ex| ||"The Embodied Icon is an essential study of the liturgical (and imperial) vestments that were used in the Byzantine Empire and by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Woodfin lays out, in a clear and concise manner, the types, decoration, and function of sacred clot

In spite of the Orthodox liturgy's reputation for resistance to change, Byzantine liturgical dress underwent a period of extraordinary elaboration from the end of the eleventh century onwards. As part of this development, embroideries depicting holy figures and scenes began to appear on the vestments of the clergy. Examining the surviving Byzantine vestments in conjunction with contemporary visual and textual evidence, Woodfin relates their embroidered imagery both to ...

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