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The embodied icon : liturgical vestments and sacramental power in Byzantium / Warren T. Woodfin.

By: Woodfin, Warren T. (Warren Theriot), 1974-
Series: : Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: xxxv, 339 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780199592098; 0199592098Other title: Liturgical vestments and sacramental power in ByzantiumSubject(s): Church vestments -- Orthodox Eastern Church | Ecclesiastical embroidery, Byzantine | Christian art and symbolism -- Byzantine Empire
Contents:
Pt. 1. Liturgical vestments in the Orthodox Church. The vestments of the Byzantine Rite described -- Moving pictures : embroidered vestments and the iconography of the church interior -- Liturgical mystagogy and the embodied image -- Pt. 2. Liturgical vestments in Byzantine society. Earthly rivalry : imperial and ecclesiastical dress -- As it is in heaven : vesture and the unseen world -- Conclusions -- Appendix A. Handlist of embroidered vestments to c.1500 -- Appendix B. Embroidered vestments described in Byzantine texts -- Appendix C. Vesting prayers according to the Textus receptus of the Greek Rite.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-325) and index.

Pt. 1. Liturgical vestments in the Orthodox Church. The vestments of the Byzantine Rite described -- Moving pictures : embroidered vestments and the iconography of the church interior -- Liturgical mystagogy and the embodied image -- Pt. 2. Liturgical vestments in Byzantine society. Earthly rivalry : imperial and ecclesiastical dress -- As it is in heaven : vesture and the unseen world -- Conclusions -- Appendix A. Handlist of embroidered vestments to c.1500 -- Appendix B. Embroidered vestments described in Byzantine texts -- Appendix C. Vesting prayers according to the Textus receptus of the Greek Rite.