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11: - Sacred Dimensions: Church Building and Ecclesiastical Practice

from Part III - Urban Experiences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2022

By
Vasileios Marinis
Edited by
Sarah Bassett
Sarah Bassett
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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Chapter 11, “Sacred Dimensions: Church Building and Ecclesiastical Practice,” examines the relationship between church building and ecclesiastical practice in Byzantine Constantinople. It outlines the ways in which architecture accommodates and responds to the exigencies of ritual both on a practical, and on a symbolic level to reveal how church buildings were understood symbolically as worship spaces, manifestations of piety, wealth, power, and prestige, and places of perpetual commemoration.

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architectural planningarchitectural symbolismchurchmonasteryburialliturgy
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The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople , pp. 180 - 199
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Janin, R., La géographie ecclésiastique de l’empire byzantin, I: Le siège Constantinople et le patriarcat oecuménique, 3: Les églises et les monastères, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1969).Google Scholar
Marinis, V., Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople: Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries (Cambridge and New York, 2014).Google Scholar
Mathews, T. F., The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy (University Park, 1971).Google Scholar
Ousterhout, R., Eastern Medieval Architecture: The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands (Oxford, 2019).Google Scholar
Taft, R. F., The Byzantine Rite: A Short History (Collegeville, 1992).Google Scholar

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