The embodied icon
Subtitle: liturgical vestments and sacramental power in Byzantium
By: Warren T. Woodfin
Series: Oxford studies in Byzantium; Oxford studies in Byzantium
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford [Great Britain]; New York
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780199592098
Subjects: Church vestments; Orthodox Eastern Church; Byzantine Ecclesiastical embroidery; Christian art and symbolism
Other titles: Liturgical vestments and sacramental power in Byzantium
Description: In spite of the Orthodox liturgy's reputation for resistance to change, Byzantine liturgical dress underwent a period of extraordinary elaboration from the end of the eleventh century onwards. As part of this development, embroideries depicting holy figures and scenes began to appear on the vestments of the clergy. Examining the surviving Byzantine vestments in conjunction with contemporary visual and textual evidence, this book relates their embroidered imagery both to the programme of images used in churches, and to the hierarchical code of dress prevailing in the imperial court.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-325) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.  Liturgical vestments in the Orthodox Church.  The vestments of the Byzantine Rite described; title: Moving pictures : embroidered vestments and the iconography of the church interior; title: Liturgical mystagogy and the embodied image; title: Pt. 2. Liturgical vestments in Byzantine society.  Earthly rivalry : imperial and ecclesiastical dress; title: As it is in heaven : vesture and the unseen world; title: Conclusions; title: Appendix A. Handlist of embroidered vestments to c.1500; title: Appendix B. Embroidered vestments described in Byzantine texts; title: Appendix C. Vesting prayers according to the Textus receptus of the Greek Rite.