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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Cecily J.HilsdaleArs Sacra in the East and after Byzantiumhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/9ICE75B9https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/9ICE75B9https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/9ICE75B9Elizabeth S.BolmanScott FitzgeraldJohnsonJackTannousWorlds of Byzantium: Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near EastCambridgeCambridge University Press2024252-279Through the analysis two liturgical artworks–rhipidia or liturgical fans–this chapter considers two worlds beyond the traditional geographical and chronological borders of Byzantium. First, it addresses a set of early thirteenth-century liturgical fans today in Paris and Marienmont that speak to Syrian Orthodox identity and the cultural networks forged among local Christian communities between Mosul and the Wadi al-Natrun. Then it turns to the mid-sixteenth century liturgical fan commissioned by Patriarch Makarije Sokolovic for the church of St. Nicholas in Banja, Serbia, that triangulates Orthodox-Ottoman networks and rivalries after Byzantium ceased to be a political entity. In attending to both these precious liturgical objects and the communities that they triangulated the chapter exposes a temporal dialectic between, on the one hand, a sense of venerable timelessness associated with <i>ars sacra</i> and, on the other, the timely politics and formal strategies in worlds beyond Byzantium’s ever-shifting borders.
Hilsdale, Cecily J. “Ars Sacra in the East and after Byzantium.” In Worlds of Byzantium: Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East, edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, and Jack Tannous, 252–79. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Cecily J. Hilsdale, Ars Sacra in the East and after Byzantium, in Worlds of Byzantium: Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East, ed. Elizabeth S. Bolman, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, and Jack Tannous (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 252–79.