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1 online resource (382 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Plates; Foreword; Introduction; Part One History and Antecedents; 1 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; Part Two the Byzantine Warrior Saints; 2 The Major Warrior Saints: The Etat-Major; I St Theodore Tiron and St Theodore Stratelates; II St Demetrius; III St Procopius; IV St Mercurius; V St George; 3 Other Major Warrior Saints |
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VI Sts Sergius and BacchusVII St Eustathius; VIII St Kyrion and the XL Martyrs of Sebasteia; IX St Hieron and the Martyrs of Melitene; X St Menas of Egypt; XI St Artemius; XII St Arethas; XIII St Martin of Tours; XIV St Phanourios; 4 The Minor Warrior Saints; XV St Christopher; XVI St Cornelius the Centurion; XVII The Holy Five of Sebasteia with Sts Orestes and Eustratius; XVIII St Joannicius; XIX Sts Juventinus and Maximinus; XX St Longinus of Caesarea; XXI Sts Nestor and Lupus; XXII St Nicetas (Nikita) the Goth; XXIII St Philotheus of Antioch; XXIV St Phoibammon |
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XXV Sts Polyeuctus of Melitene and NearchusXXVI St Sabbas Stratelates; XXVII St Sisinnius of Antioch; XXVIII Sts Speusippus, Elasippus and Melesippus; XXIX St Zosimus of Apollonia; Appendix: Additional Minor Warrior Saints; XXX St Alexander; XXXI St Andrew Stratelates; XXXII St Anicetus; XXXIII St Athanasius of Clysma; XXXIV Sts Basiliscus, Cleonicus and Eutropius; XXXV Sts Bonosus and Maximilianus; XXXVI St Callinicus; XXXVII St Callistratus; XXXVIII Dasius; XXXIX Sts Emeterius and Chelidonius; XL St Eudocimus; XLI St Eusignius; XLII Gaza, The XL Defenders of; XLIII St Gordius of Caesarea |
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XLIV Sts John and PaulXLV St Justus; XLVI Marcellus of Tangier; XLVII St Maurice of Agaunum and companions; XLVIII Sts Probus, Tarachos and Andronicus; XLIX St Sebastian; L Sts Trophimus, Dorymedon and Sabbatius; LI St Typasius; LII St Varus of Egypt; LIII Sts Victor and Vicentius; Part Three Conclusion; 5 Towards a Characterization 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 |
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The aesthetics of warrior saintsEpilogue; Bibliography; Index; Untitled |
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Annotation In this study of the cult and iconography of Byzantine warrior saints, Christopher Walter 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. With a repertory of their commemorations and representations, he sets out their iconographical types and the functions ascribed to them in the celestial army, supporting the terrestrial army on the offensive, and gaining a new protective role when it moved to the defensive. Features noted are the development of an echelon of military saints, notably in church decoration, which provides the surest basis for defining their specificity; and that their depiction, besides showing them as young, handsome and robust, resorted to 'twinning' them in pairs, calling attention to the camaraderie of soldiers. The work also opens a new perspective on the military history of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine ideology of war is seen consistently to follow that of the Israelites; protected and favoured by divine intervention, there was no need to discuss the morality of a 'just war'; and when considering Byzantine methods of warfare, due attention should be given to the important role they attributed to celestial help in their campaigns |
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Print version record |
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Christian saints in art.
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Art, Byzantine.
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Art, Byzantine
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Christian saints in art
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Electronic book
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Huxley, George
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| ISBN |
9781351880527 |
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1351880527 |
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