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adoration
In strict terminology ‘adoration’ denotes an act of worship due to God alone. In early times the word was sometimes used loosely to include the veneration paid to persons and objects of a sacred ...
Adrian I, pope
(died 795)A Roman, Adrian I was consecrated on 9 Feb 772 and died on Christmas day 795. His was certainly one of the most important pontificates, from a politico-religious ...
Albanians
A nation of Thraco-Illyrian origin, in the Middle Ages the Albanians were ruled by the Byzantines (6th-14th cc.) and Bulgars (9th-10th cc.) before succumbing to the Turks (1479). The fourth ...
Amalarius of Metz
(died after 850)The Carolingian liturgist and theologian Amalarius of Metz was a pupil of Alcuin at Tours before being appointed archbishop of Trier in 811. During Agobard's exile (c.834), he was ...
Amorian or Phrygian Dynasty
Family that ruled from 820 to 867 and included Michael II, Theophilos, Theodora, and Michael III; it was so called because its founder, Michael II, was born in Amorion (see ...
Anastasius I
(d. 598), Patr. of Antioch 559–70 and 593–8. A critic of Justinian I's aphthartodocetism, he was deposed by Justinian II and spent 23 years in exile. A key figure in the dogmatic discussions of the ...
Andrea Orcagna
(b Florence, ?c.1320; d Florence, ?1368).The leading Florentine artist of the third quarter of the 14th century, a painter, sculptor, architect, and administrator. His nickname ‘Orcagna’ was ...
Antony I Kassymatas
(Κασ〈σ〉υματα̑ς), patriarch of Constantinople (ca.Jan. 821–Jan. 837?); baptismal name Constantine.Of low birth, he received a good education and became a lawyer (nomikos) in the Sphorakiou district of ...
art
It has been said that while the Greeks taught the holiness of beauty, the Hebrews taught the beauty of holiness. This is an unfortunate generalization, although it is true to say that the ancient. ...
art and architecture: Byzantine
1. Early Byzantine (c.500–843)2. Middle Byzantine (843–1261)3. Late Byzantine (1261–1453)1. Early Byzantine (c.500–843)2. Middle Byzantine (843–1261)3. Late Byzantine (1261–1453)1. Early ...
art and architecture: Georgian
The roots of ecclesiastical building activity in art and architecture in Georgia may be traced to the declaration of Christianity as the official religion in the 320s during the reign ...
art and architecture: Mosan
A regional ‘school’ of medieval art centred in the diocese of Liège on the Meuse river in eastern Belgium. Between the 11th and 13th centuries this French-speaking part of the ...
art and architecture: Ottonian
As befits a term derived from the political sphere, Ottonian art and architecture refers to those buildings and works of art produced in the Germanic lands (and surrounding areas) that ...
Art and the West
While the dedication of Constantinople as the new Rome symbolized imperial and artistic unity and Constantinople was patterned after old Rome in its topography and monuments, their shared traditions ...
art, Umayyad
Art produced during the Umayyad caliphate developed diverse late antique tendencies: Byzantine, Sasanian, Jewish, Palmyrene, central Asian. Major surviving monuments include the public-religious (the ...
Artabasdos
(᾽Αρταύασδος, ᾽Αρτάβαζος), usurper (742–43).An Armenian (Toumanoff, “Caucasia” 135), Artabasdos was appointed strategos of the Armeniakon by Anastasios II (713–15). He supported the revolt of Leo III ...
artist
In the MA the artist, or better artifex (‘artificer’), was most frequently considered a practitioner of the mechanical arts. Inextricably linked to his manual activities, he was viewed as a ...
Basilian monks and nuns
Those following the Rule of St Basil. Basilian life is cenobitic, with common meals, prayers, and work, the last being an innovation on the earlier eremitical model. The most important ...
Byzantine Aesthetics
One of the trends in medieval aesthetics within the Greek-speaking culture of Byzantium (fourth to fifteenth century), Byzantine aesthetics was based on the aesthetic ideas of antiquity (first of all ...
Byzantine art
Art produced in or under the influence of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire; the empire was founded in ad 330 by Constantine (the first Christian emperor of Rome) and ended in 1453 when the ...
