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Kassia the Nun offers a unique glimpse into ninth-century Byzantium as the only woman whose works were included in the corpus of liturgical hymns. This volume explores Kassia’s thought on Christology, on gender, and on monasticism itself. Kurt Sherry’s analysis provides readers with an opportunity to know this woman of remarkable intellect, wit, and piety by drawing primarily on her own words. He critically examines the most famous vignette of her life: a heated exchange of wits with the Emperor Theophilos, whereupon he married a rival. Sherry examines the way Kassia articulated the partisan theology of the iconophiles. Kassia’s is one of the only female voices from ninth-century Byzantium and this volume accordingly examines her reflections on gender in the context of her society and concludes that she represents a perspective that might be described as feminist. The last chapter evaluates Kassia’s philosophy of monasticism and puts her forward as a true "Mother of the Church". This volume also contains appendices helpful for both the scholar and layperson alike, including new English translations of certain relevant texts.
Kassianē, --- Cassia, --- Eikasia, --- Ikasia, --- Kasia, --- Kasianē, --- Kasija, --- Kassia, --- Касија, --- 271 <1-11> --- 271 <1-11> Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--Oosten --- 271 <1-11> Ordres religieux. Congregations religieuses. Monachisme--Oosten --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--Oosten --- Ordres religieux. Congregations religieuses. Monachisme--Oosten --- Kassianē, --- Cassia (ou Cassiana) mon. hymnogr. --- Kassianē, - approximately 810 --- -271 <1-11> --- -Kassianē, --- -Kassianē,
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This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during Great Lent and Holy Week in Constantinople. In doing so, it understands compunction as a liturgical emotion, intertwined with paradisal nostalgia, a desire for repentance and a wellspring of tears. For the faithful, liturgical emotions were embodied experiences that were enacted through sacred song and mystagogy. The three hymnographers chosen for this study span a period of nearly four centuries and had an important connection to Constantinople, which forms the topographical and liturgical nexus of the study. Their work also covers three distinct genres of hymnography: kontakion, kanon and sticheron idiomelon. Through these lenses of period, place and genre this study examines the affective performativity hymns and the Byzantine experience of compunction.
Emotions --- Hymns, Greek --- Hymns, Greek. --- Lenten hymns --- Lenten hymns. --- Liturgics. --- Repentance --- Religious aspects --- Orthodox Eastern Church. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Andrew, --- Kassianē, --- Romanus, --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Liturgy --- History. --- Turkey --- Lent --- Hymns --- Lenten music --- Kassianē, --- Cassia, --- Eikasia, --- Ikasia, --- Kasia, --- Kasianē, --- Kasija, --- Kassia, --- Касија, --- André, --- Andreas Cretensis, --- Andreas Hierosolymitanus, --- Andreas Krētēs, --- Andreĭ Kritski, --- Andreĭ Kritskiĭ, --- Andriĭ Krytsʹkyĭ, --- Andrea, --- Andreas, --- Crete, Andrew, --- Romain, --- Roman, --- Romano, --- Rōmanos, --- Romanos, --- Romanus Melodus, --- Роман,
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