Acknowledgements
Notes on sources, translations, and illustrations
List of abbreviations
List of tables
List of illustrations
Maps
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ciborium or Canopy? Textual Evidence on Canopies in the
Byzantine Church
Chapter 2: Canopies in the Byzantine Church: Archaeological and
Architectural Evidence
Chapter 3: Place-Making: The Place of the Canopy within the
Church
Chapter 4: The Micro-Architectural Framing of Sacred Space
Chapter 5: Nested in its Own Shape: The Canopy and the Byzantine
Church
Conclusions
Appendices
Tables
Bibliography
Index
Jelena Bogdanovic is Associate Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University. Trained as an architect and an historian of art and architecture, she specializes in the architectural history of Byzantine, Slavic, Western European, and Islamic cultures in the Balkans and the Mediterranean.
"For the first time a thorough investigation examines the
symbolism, cultural and religious value, and fortune of the canopy
as a basic element of church architecture in Byzantium and related
cultures (300-1500)...This book, which receives an elegant
treatment from Oxford University Press, is furnished with rare
illustrations and a number of charts and drawings that clarify the
author's points and provide the nonexpert reader with precious
help. Indeed, this is
an invaluable scholarly contribution that helps us to understand
the complexity of thoughts and beliefs behind what may appear to be
a small architectural element, the canopy." -- Maria Cristina
Carile, University of Bolog, Speculum
"Jelena Bogdanovic's monograph offers the first comprehensive study
of a microarchitectural unit of generic form and basic tectonic
integrity with a vast geographical and chronological span ... the
book's major contribution is the re-assessment of the canopy as a
powerful signifier, which provided dominant performance frameworks
for liturgical and paraliturgical services." -- Dimitra Kotoula,
Medieval Archaeology
"[A] welcome addition to the study of medieval art and
architecture, as well as the framing devices, both physical and
rhetorical, that were used to make the divine manifest in
ecclesiastical space ... This monograph should be a standard
reference and starting-point for future discussions of spatial
archetypes in Byzantium and the medieval world." -- Nathan S.
Dennis, Sacred Architecture
"The book is beautifully produced with many good-quality color
photographs and fine drawings. It also collects and discusses an
immense amount of material ranging from Syria to Italy, and from
the third century to the post-Byzantine period. ... this book will
likely become a useful reference for the archaeological material it
assembles." --Vasileios Marinis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers only." --W. Cahn, CHOICE
"Bogdanovic's study of Byzantine ciboria is an impressive example
of scholarship. The research and documentation of the large corpus
of ciboria is meticulous and will be the starting place for all
future scholarship on this particular type of church furnishing. In
addition, her interpretation of the ciboria as a type of
micro-architecture raises our level of understanding about their
form and function within the broader contexts of church design and
its
symbolism as well as the liturgy performed under their canopies."
-- Mark J. Johnson, Brigham Young University
"The Framing of Sacred Space is a major contribution to the field
of Byzantine studies. Having devoted over a decade to studying
churches of the Byzantine rite and earning both a master's as well
as a PhD., Bogdanovic's book is impeccably researched...This
author's scholarly study serves to further knowledge in
architecture, fine arts, and religion. The book is highly
recommended for research level library collections in these
areas."--ARLIS
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