Hell in the Byzantine World 2 Volume Hardback Set
A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean

The first in-depth presentation and analysis of the imagery for Hell from the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world.

Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Edited by)

9781108690706, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 17 September 2020

936 pages, 119 b/w illus. 137 colour illus. 7 maps
25.5 x 17.8 x 5.5 cm, 2.32 kg

The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries since the emergence of the Christian faith. These landmark volumes provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. Particular emphasis is placed on images from churches across Venetian Crete, which are comprehensively collected and published for the first time. Crete was at the centre of artistic production in the late Byzantine world and beyond and its imagery was highly influential on traditions in other regions. The Cretan examples accompany rich comparative material from the wider Mediterranean – Cappadocia, Macedonia, the Peloponnese and Cyprus. The large amount of data presented in this publication highlight Hell's emergence in monumental painting not as a concrete array of images, but as a diversified mirroring of social perceptions of sin.

Volume 1: Introduction Angeliki Lymberopoulou and Eirini Panou
Part I: Crete
1. From Crete to Hell: The Textual Tradition on Punishments in the Afterlife and the Writings of Joseph Bryennios on Crete Dionysios Stathakopoulos
2. Venetian Crete: The Historical Context Charalambos Gasparis
3. Hell on Crete Angeliki Lymberopoulou
4. Hell from West to East: Western Resonances in Cretan Wall Painting Rembrandt Duits
Part II: Eastern Mediterranean
5. 'When the visual order was established': The Last Judgement and Punishments in Hell in Byzantine Cappadocia Rainer Warland
6. Damned in Hell, damned in the Church: Imagery and Space in Byzantium Athanasios Semoglou
7. Images of Hell and the Afterlife in the Churches of Lakonia Sharon Gerstel and Panayiotis S. Katsafados
8. Hell in the Sweet Land: Hell's Place in the Last Judgements of Byzantine and Medieval Cyprus Annemarie Weyl Carr. Volume 2: Introduction Rembrandt Duits
I. Chania (nos 1-47)
II. Rethymnon (nos 48-73)
III. Herakleion (nos 74-92)
IV
Lassithi (nos 93-107)
V. Chronological Arrangement of Cretan Churches.

Subject Areas: History of religion [HRAX], Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], European history [HBJD], Religious subjects depicted in art [AGR], History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400 [ACK]