Sacred Mobilities in Byzantium and Beyond

Veronica della Dora, Ph.D. (2005), UCLA, is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her publications span cultural geography, the history of cartography and Byzantine studies. Her books include Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Charalambos Dendrinos, Ph.D. (1996), Royal Holloway, University of London, is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine Literature and Greek Palaeography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research covers the sacred in different religions, and editions of Byzantine texts. He recently coedited Bibliophilos (de Gruyter, 2021). Mark Guscin, Ph.D. (2015), Royal Holloway, University of London, is a Research Associate of the Hellenic Institute of that university and a freelance writer. He is the author of The Tradition of the Image of Edessa (Cambridge Scholars, 2016) and The Image of Edessa (Brill, 2009). Revd David John Williams is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests focus on Byzantine spirituality, sacred materialities, cross religious dialogue, shared sacred spaces and syncretism.

Preface


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Notes on Contributors





1 Introducing Sacred Mobilities


 Veronica della Dora





2 The Monastery of Hosios Loukas as a Bilderfahrzeug of the Constantinopolitan Liturgy


 Bissera V. Pentcheva





3 Mobility of Text: a Key to Understanding the Murals of the Svip‘i Façade Painting


 Ekaterine Gedevanishvili





4 The Translation of the Image of Edessa to Constantinople: Politics, Religion and Dynastic Ambition


 Mark Guscin





5 Running to the Saints with the Wings of Faith: Mobility and Legitimacy in Late Byzantine Miracle Collections


 Mihail Mitrea





6 Memory, Translating Sacra, and the Making of Shared Sacred Spaces: Hagia Sophia and the Church of St John in Damascus (5th–17th c.)


 David Williams





7 Sacred Mobilities and Multiple Identities: Early Modern Christians from Cyprus and the Shadow of Byzantium


 Chrysovalantis Kyriacou





8 Mountain Mobilities: the Monastic Landscape of Pindos


 Molly Greene





9 Sacred Mobilities and the Metochia of the Holy Sepulchre in the Balkans (1845–1900)


 Maria Litina





10 Sacred Topographies and Travelling Memorabilia: the Proskynētaria of the Holy Land


 Rehav (Buni) Rubin





11 Assembling a Limen: the Biography of an Iconostasis


 Christos Antonios Kakalis





12 Sacred Mobilities: Afterword


 Andrew Louth