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Manipulating Theophany: Light and Ritual in North Adriatic Architecture (Ca. 400-Ca. 800)

Manipulating Theophany: Light and Ritual in North Adriatic Architecture (Ca. 400-Ca. 800)

Hardcover

Series: Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle, Book 6

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 3110376326
ISBN13: 9783110376326
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Jul 25 2016
Pages: 271
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Using light as fil rouge reuniting theology and ritual with the architecture, decoration, and iconography of cultic spaces, the present study argues that the mise-en-scène of fifth-century baptism and sixth-century episcopal liturgy was meant to reproduce the luminous atmosphere of heaven. Analysing the material culture of the two sacraments against common ritual expectations and Christian theology, we evince the manner

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