Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Alexei Lidov: Biography
Introduction
PART I: Sacred spaces: their traces and representations
	1 Sacred spaces versus holy sites: on the limits and advantages of a hierotopic approach
	2 Image-paradigms: the aesthetics of the invisible
	3 Dazzling radiance: a paradigm and a quiz in Byzantine chorography and hierotopy
	4 The concept of temenos and the sectioning of light
	5 Byzantine architectural form between iconicity and chôra
	6 Hierochronotopy: stepping into timeful space through Bonanno’s twelfth-century door for the Pisa cathedral
PART II: Icons and holy objects in sacred space
	7 The marvellous Hierotopy of the golden altar in Milan: a visual Constantinopolitan fascination?
	8 The patriarchal quarters in the south gallery of Hagia Sophia: where was the patriarch’s throne?
	9 Seeing toponymic icons hierotopically
	10 Virgin Mary and the Adoration of the Magi: from iconic space to icon in space
	11 Encountering presence: icon/relic/viewer
PART III: Embodied experiences of sacred space
	12 The shrines of the Holy King Stefan the First-Crowned in the sacral topography of Serbian lands
	13 Travelling objects and topographies of salvation: agencies and afterlives of two post-Byzantine proskynētaria
	14 The sacred space of the state and its direction
	15 Back to the top of the Mountain. A Syrian protological theme in the late antique and medieval representations of the world to come
	16 Rapture, ecstasy, and the construction of sacred space: hierotopy in the life of Symeon the New Theologian
Tabula Gratulatoria
Bibliography. Alexei Lidov. Selected list of publications
Bibliography – dictionaries – primary sources
Bibliography
Index