Title Liturgy and the emotions in Byzantium : compunction and hymnody / Andrew Mellas

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations Summary "This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during Great Lent and Holy Week in Constantinople. In doing so, it understands compunction as a liturgical emotion, intertwined with paradisal nostalgia, a desire for repentance and a wellspring of tears. For the faithful, liturgical emotions were embodied experiences that were enacted through sacred song and mystagogy. The three hymnographers chosen for this study span a period of nearly four centuries and had an important connection to Constantinople, which forms the topographical and liturgical nexus of the study. Their work also covers three distinct genres of hymnography: kontakion, kanon and sticheron idiomelon. Through these lenses of period, place and genre this study examines the affective performativity hymns and the Byzantine experience of compunction"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 15, 2020) Subject Romanus, Melodus, Saint, active 6th century. Andrew, of Crete, Saint, approximately 660-740. Kassianē, approximately 810- SUBJECT Andrew, of Crete, Saint, approximately 660-740 fast Kassianē, approximately 810- fast Romanus, Melodus, Saint, active 6th century fast Subject Orthodox Eastern Church -- Liturgy -- History SUBJECT Orthodox Eastern Church fast Subject Hymns, Greek -- History and criticism Lenten hymns -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History and criticism Repentance -- Orthodox Eastern Church. Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church. Repentance -- Orthodox Eastern Church Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church Hymns, Greek Lenten hymns Liturgics Turkey -- Istanbul Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019060135 ISBN 9781108767361 1108767362

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