RT Book
T1 Performing Orthodox ritual in Byzantium
A1 White, Andrew Walker 1958-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1655745700
AB In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthodox Church - and its unique relationship with traditional theatre. Tracing the secularization of pagan theatre, the rise of rhetoric as an alternative to acting, as well as the transmission of ancient methods of musical composition into the Byzantine era, White demonstrates how Christian ritual was in effect a post-theatrical performing art, created by intellectuals who were fully aware of traditional theatre but who endeavoured to avoid it. The book explores how Orthodox rites avoid the aesthetic appreciation associated with secular art, and conducts an in-depth study (and reconstruction) of the late Byzantine Service of the Furnace. Often treated as a liturgical drama, White translates and delineates the features of five extant versions, to show how and why it generated widely diverse audience reactions in both medieval times and our own.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BX350
SN 9781139683654
K1 Orthodox Eastern Church : Liturgy : History
K1 Orthodox Eastern Church
K1 Liturgics : History.
K1 Liturgy and drama : History.
K1 Theater : Religious aspects : Christianity : History.
K1 Aesthetics, Byzantine
K1 Theater : Religious aspects : Christianity : History
K1 Liturgics : History
K1 Liturgy and drama : History
K1 Orthodox Eastern Church ; Liturgy ; History
K1 Liturgics ; History
K1 Liturgy and drama ; History
K1 Theater ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; History
K1 Byzantine Empire ; Church history
K1 Byzantine Empire : Church history.
K1 Byzantine Empire : Church history
K1 Electronic books
DO 10.1017/CBO9781139683654