Oxford Studies In Byzantium
Oxford Studies in Byzantium consists of scholarly monographs and editions on the history, literature, thought, and material culture of the Byzantine world.
Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia
Elif Keser Kayaalp
Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy
James Morton
Caliphs and Merchants
Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700950)
Fanny Bessard
Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
James Howard-Johnston
Innovation in Byzantine Medicine
The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275c.1330)
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire
Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy
Adrastos Omissi
The Universal History of Stepanos Tarneci
Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Tim Greenwood
The Letters of Psellos
Cultural Networks and Historical Realities
Edited by Michael Jeffreys and Marc D. Lauxtermann
Holy Sites Encircled
The Early Byzantine Concentric Churches of Jerusalem
Vered Shalev-Hurvitz
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Foreword
The four main parts (WORD, IMAGE, IDENTITY, and HISTORY) of this volume are supplemented with an Appendix, which constitutes an organic part of the book. The Appendix contains a Critical edition of the Sophia commentary with an English translation, as well as a Catalogue of the fifteenth-sixteenth-century Sophia images. Apart from bibliographical and other factual references, this Catalogue provides a short iconographic description of the images. Based on the available information, the Catalogue also presents an iconographic classification of the early Sophia images and a survey of the development of the Novgorod Wisdom iconography. In order to avoid repeated descriptions of and bibliographical references to Sophia images, I refer to this Catalogue and its items (as Cat. number) throughout the book.
Translations are my own unless indicated otherwise. Biblical quotations are from the English translation of the Orthodox Study Bible, in which the Old Testament is a translation made from the Septuagint and the New Testament is that of the New King James Version. Accordingly, the numbering of Old Testament biblical (including psalm) verses follows the Septuagint.
I use the simplified Library of Congress system of transliterating Russian Cyrillic into the Latin alphabet, as well as the BukyVede Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic font with the kind permission of Sebastian Kempgen.
This volume is an updated and extended version of my doctoral dissertation defended in 2017 at the University of Cambridge.
Acknowledgements
This book could not have been completed without the support that I have received from a number of people. First of all, I want to extend my gratitude to my supervisor at the University of Cambridge, Richard Marks for his scholarly guidance, patience, support, and for showing perpetual confidence in this research. I am likewise grateful to the reviewers of my dissertation, Antony Eastmond and Rowan Williams, as well as the anonymous reviewers of this book. For their advice and the helpful consultations, I am indebted to Donal Cooper, Michael S. Flier, Simon Franklin, Anna Jouravel, Nazar Kozak, Victoria Legkikh, Alexei Lidov, Basil Louri, Istvn Perczel, Tatiana Popova, Aleksandr Preobrazhensky, Ludmila Shchennikova, Jonathan Shepard, Engelina Smirnova, Oleksiy Tolochko, Tatiana Tsarevskaya, and Konstantin Vershinin. My endeavour to obtain images for this book and the permissions to publish them was generously supported by Aleksey Alekseev, Andrey Borodikhin, Nazar Kozak, Alexei Lidov, Gspr Parlagi, Aleksandr Preobrazhensky, Alexei Rastorguev, Irina Shalina, Anna Zakharova, and Vera Zavaritskaya. For their help with the acquisition of the copies of manuscripts, I am grateful to Andrey Borodikhin and Olga Grinchenko. A special debt of gratitude is owed to Richard Marks, Alexandre Deniz, and Luke Saville for their assistance in language editing. The greatest thanks, though, must go to my husband, Pter Tth, who motivated and helped this research in every possible way.
The publication of this volume was supported by the Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture.
Contents
Andrew of Crete: Sermon on Lazarus SaturdayBHG 2218, CPG 8177
Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, 10 vols, ed. A. Cleveland Coxe, BuffaloNew York, 188596.
Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca, 3 vols, ed. F. Halkin, Bruxelles, 1957; Auctarium Bibliothecae hagiographicae graecae. Bruxelles, 1969; Novum auctarium Bibliothecae hagiographicae graecae, Bruxelles, 1984.
Biblioteka literatury Drevnei Rusi, 20 vols, St Petersburg, 1997.
Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, Turnhout, 1953.
Chteniia v Obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh
John Chrysostom, On VirginityCPG 4313
Chudovskoe sobranie = Collection of the Chudov Monastery, GIM, Moscow
Clavis patrum graecorum, 3 vols, ed. M. Geerard, Brepols: Turnhout, 1983 ( 10001924); 1974 ( 20005197); 1979 ( 52008228);