Ritual and Art

Byzantine Essays for Christopher Walter

edited by Pamela Armstrong

Book cover: Ritual and Art

Extent: 324 pages

Publisher: Pindar Press

Subjects: Art & Art History, Medieval Studies

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(April 2006)

ISBN: 9781899828623

Price: $69.00

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A Festschrift for Christopher Walter featuring studies on Byzantine church ritual and art by contributors including Jeffrey Anderson, David Buckton, Suzy Dufrenne, Tania Velmans, Panayotis Vokotopoulos, Albert Failler and Robert Taft. Includes a complete bibliography of Walter’s publications and an introduction by Pamela Armstrong.


This Festschrift for Christopher Walter features a number of studies on the ritual and art of the Byzantine church. Contributors include Jeffrey Anderson, David Buckton, Suzy Dufrenne, Tania Velmans, and Panayotis Vokotopoulos on Byzantine art, Albert Failler and Joseph Munitiz on texts, and Robert Taft on the liturgy. There is a complete bibliography of Christopher Walter’s publications, and an introduction by Pamela Armstrong.

Foreword Christopher Walter: The Scholar Christopher Walter: Bibliography
Tabula Gratulatoria The Byzantine Imperial Communion Ritual, Robert Taft
An Exhortation by Manuel Philes to Pay Attention, J. A. Muniti The Creation of the Marginal Psalter, Jeffrey C. Anderson Les divers emplois du mot harmoste dans l'uvre de Georges Pachymeres, Albert Failler Simples remarques sur deux manuscrits byzantins des IXe et Xe siecles, Suzy Dufrenne Iconographic Observations of Figural Representation on Zeuxippus Ware, Pamela Armstrong
'Early Byzantine' Enamel in France, David Buckton The Miniatures of a Palaeologan New Testament at the Hagia Lavra Monastery near Kalavryta, Panayotis L. Vocotopoulos People Get the Heroes and Martyrs they Deserve, Anthony Bryer
St. Catherine of Alexandria and Mount Sinai , Nancy Patterson Sev c enko The Narthex as Desert: The Symbolism of the Entrance Space in Orthodox Church Buildings
Georgi Gerov Autour d'une inscription metrique et de la representation des apotres Pierre et Paul dans une eglise en Elide, Victoria Kepetzi Le role de l'hesychasme dans la peinture murale Byzantine du XIVe et XVe siecles, Tania Velmans Emperors or Saints? A Note on the Iconography of a Late-Antique Weight, Christopher Entwistle Enemy at the Gates: An Alliance Ridiculed. A Contribution to the History of Mentalite of the South Slavs in the Middle Ages, Duan Kora c and Radivoj Radi c Hymnography and Iconography: Images of Hymnographers in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-century Church Paintings in Bulgaria , Elka Balalova List of Contributors Index

  • Edited by Pamela Armstrong