The warrior saints in Byzantine art and tradition
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The warrior saints in Byzantine art and tradition
Ashgate, c2003
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注記
Bibliography: p. 295-306
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Christopher Walter's study of the cult and iconography of Byzantine warrior saints - George, Demetrius, the two Theodores, and dozens more - is at once encyclopaedic and interpretative, and the first comprehensive study of the subject. The author delineates their origins and development as a distinctive category of saint, showing that in its definitive form this coincides with the apogee of the Byzantine empire in the 10th-11th centuries. He establishes a repertory, particularly of their commemorations in synaxaries and their representations in art, and describes their iconographical types and the functions ascribed to them once enrolled in the celestial army: support for the terrestrial army in its offensive campaigns, and a new protective role when the Byzantine Empire passed to the defensive. The survey highlights the lack of historicity among the Byzantines in their approach to the lives of these saints and their terrestrial careers. An epilogue briefly treats the analogous traditions in the cultures of neighbouring peoples. Walter draws attention to the development of an echelon of military saints, notably in church decoration, which provides the surest basis for defining their specificity; also to the way in which they were depicted, generally young, handsome and robust, and frequently 'twinned' in pairs, so calling attention to the importance of camaraderie among soldiers. At the same time, this work opens a new perspective on the military history of the Byzantine Empire. Its ideology of war consistently followed that of the Israelites; protected and favoured by divine intervention, there was no occasion to discuss the morality of a 'just war'. Consequently, when considering Byzantine methods of warfare, due attention should be given to the important role which they attributed to celestial help in their military campaigns.
目次
- Contents: Foreword, George Huxley
- Introduction
- History and Antecedents: The Christian and Antique Background: The Old Testament
- The New Testament
- Pagan antiquity
- The early Patristic period
- The contribution of popular piety to the conception of the warrior saint
- The Byzantine Warrior Saints: The Major Warrior Saints: The Etat Major: St Theodore Tiron and St Theodore Stratelates
- St Demetrius
- St Procopius
- St Mercurius
- St George
- Other Major Warrior Saints: Sts Sergius and Bacchus
- St Eustathius
- St Kyrion and the XL Martyr of Sebasteia
- St Hieron and the Martyrs of Melitene
- St Menas of Egypt
- St Artemius
- St Arethas
- St Martin of Tours
- St Phanourios
- The Minor Warrior Saints: St Christopher
- St Cornelius the Centurion
- The Holy Five of Sebasteia with Saints Orestes and Eustratius
- Saint Joannicius
- Saints Juventinus and Maximinus
- Saint Longinus
- Saints Nestor and Lupus
- Saint Nicetas (Nikita)
- Saint Philotheus of Antioch
- Saint Phoibammon
- Saints Polyeuctus and Nearchus
- Saint Sabbas Stratelates
- Saint Sissinius of Antioch
- Saint Speusippus and companions
- Saint Zosimus
- Appendix
- Towards a Characterisation of the Warrior Saint: The terrestrial career of Warrior Saints
- The beginnings of the cult of Warrior Saints
- The early iconography of Warrior Saints
- The emergence of an echelon of Warrior Saints
- The function of Warrior Saints in the lives of terrestrial men
- The aesthetics of Warrior Saints
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
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