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

Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Vassiliki Tsamakda, Rembrandt Duits, Dionysios Stathakopoulos, Charalambos Gasparis, Athanasios Semoglou, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Panayotis S. Katsafados, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Eirini Panou

ISBN 10: 110869070X / ISBN 13: 9781108690706

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2020

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hell in the Byzantine World 2 Volume Hardback Set: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110869070X
• ISBN 13: 9781108690706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medieval Studies

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

ANGELIKI LYMBEROPOULOU is Senior Lecturer in Art History at The Open University. She is the editor, with Rembrandt Duits, of Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe (2013) and of Cross-Cultural Interaction between Byzantium and the West 1204-1669. Whose Mediterranean is it Anyway? (2018).