Byzantine Hymnology
Author: Christos Vrionides
Publisher:
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781258017255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christos Vrionides
Publisher:
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781258017255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrew Mellas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-09
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 110880067X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during Great Lent and Holy Week in Constantinople. In doing so, it understands compunction as a liturgical emotion, intertwined with paradisal nostalgia, a desire for repentance and a wellspring of tears. For the faithful, liturgical emotions were embodied experiences that were enacted through sacred song and mystagogy. The three hymnographers chosen for this study span a period of nearly four centuries and had an important connection to Constantinople, which forms the topographical and liturgical nexus of the study. Their work also covers three distinct genres of hymnography: kontakion, kanon and sticheron idiomelon. Through these lenses of period, place and genre this study examines the affective performativity hymns and the Byzantine experience of compunction.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-11-09
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9004439579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics the authors explore the sacred stories, affective scripts and salvific songs which were the literature of Byzantine liturgical communities and provide a window into lived Christianity in this period.
Author: Benjamin K. Forrest
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0227907213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hymns and the music the church sings are tangible means of expressing worship. As worship is one of the central functions of the church and it occupies a prime focus, a renewed sense of awareness to our theological presuppositions and cultural cues must be maintained to ensure a proper focus in worship. Hymns and Hymnody is an introductory textbook in three volumes describing the most influential hymnists, liturgists, and musical movements of the church. This academically grounded resource evaluates both the historical and theological perspectives of the major hymnists and composers that have impacted the church over the course of twenty centuries. Volume 1 explores the early church and concludes with the Renaissance era hymnists. Each chapter contains five elements: historical background, theological perspectives communicated in their hymns/compositions, contribution to liturgy and worship, notable hymns, and bibliography. The missions of Hymns and Hymnody are to provide biographical data on influential hymn writers for students and interested laypeople, and to provide a theological analysis of what the cited composers have communicated in the theology of their hymns. It is vital for those involved in leading the worship of the church to recognize that what they communicate is in fact theology. This latter aspect is missing in accessible formats for the current literature.
Author: Mark A. Lamport
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-02-21
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1498299806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hymns and the music the church sings are tangible means of expressing worship. And while worship is one of, if not the, central functions of the church along with mission, service, education, justice, and compassion, and occupies a prime focus of our churches, a renewed sense of awareness to our theological presuppositions and cultural cues must be maintained to ensure a proper focus in worship. Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions is a 60-chapter, three-volume introductory textbook describing the most influential hymnists, liturgists, and musical movements of the church. This academically grounded resource evaluates both the historical and theological perspectives of the major hymnists and composers that have impacted the church over the course of twenty centuries. Volume 1 explores the early church and concludes with the Renaissance era hymnists. Volume 2 begins with the Reformation and extends to the eighteenth-century hymnists and liturgists. Volume 3 engages nineteenth century hymnists to the contemporary movements of the twenty-first century. Each chapter contains these five elements: historical background, theological perspectives communicated in their hymns/compositions, contribution to liturgy and worship, notable hymns, and bibliography. The mission of Hymns and Hymnody is (1) to provide biographical data on influential hymn writers for students and interested laypeople, and (2) to provide a theological analysis of what these composers have communicated in the theology of their hymns. We believe it is vital for those involved in leading the worship of the church to recognize that what they communicate is in fact theology. This latter aspect, we contend, is missing—yet important—in accessible formats for the current literature.
Author: Thomas Arentzen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08-15
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1108476287
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Images and texts tell various stories about the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, reflecting an important cult with strong doctrinal foundations.
Author: Savas J. Savas
Publisher:
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780819101617
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stratis Papaioannou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0199351767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In twenty-five chapters by leading scholars, this volume propagates a nuanced understanding of Byzantine "literature", highlighting key problems, and presenting basic research tools for an audience of specialists and non-specialists.