Hell in the Byzantine World 2 Volume Hardback Set: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean

2020 Cambridge University Press 2-volume hardcover set. Unread copies still shrinkwrapped. From the summary: The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries since the emergence of the Christian faith. These landmark volumes provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. Particular emphasis is placed on images from churches across Venetian Crete, which are comprehensively collected and published for the first time. Crete was at the centre of artistic production in the late Byzantine world and beyond and its imagery was highly influential on traditions in other regions. The Cretan examples accompany rich comparative material from the wider Mediterranean - Cappadocia, Macedonia, the Peloponnese and Cyprus. The large amount of data presented in this publication highlight Hell's emergence in monumental painting not as a concrete array of images, but as a diversified mirroring of social perceptions of sin. Volume 1: Essays Introduction - Angeliki Lymberopoulou & Eirini Panou Part I: Crete Chapter 1: From Crete to Hell: The Textual Tradition on Punishments in the Afterlife and the Writings of Joseph Bryennios on Crete - Dionysios Stathakopoulos Chapter 2: Venetian Crete: The Historical Context - Charalambos Gasparis Chapter 3: Hell on Crete - Angeliki Lymberopoulou Chapter 4: Hell from West to East - Vassiliki Tsamakda Part II: Eastern Mediterranean Chapter 5: When the Visual Order Was Established (Cappadocia) - Vassiliki Tsamakda Chapter 6: Damned in Hell, Damned in the Church: Imagery and Space in Byzantium (Macedonia) - Athanasios Semoglou Chapter 7: Images of Hell and the Afterlife in the Churches of Lakonia - Sharon E. J. Gerstel & Panayotis S. Katsafados Chapter 8: Hell in the 'Sweet Land' (Cyprus) - Annemarie Weyl Carr Volume 2: A Catalogue of the Cretan Material (Co-authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou & Rembrandt Duits) Introduction to the Catalogue Geographical Catalogue Units (The Prefectures of Crete): I. Chania II. Rethymnon III. Herakleion IV. Lassithi V. Chronological Arrangement of the Cretan Churches.…