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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 p

Emotions in Byzantium came to life through hymnody, which invited the faithful to step into a liturgical world of compunction.

Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire’s ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977. Since then, classicists and western medie

This work examines the Byzantine liturgy. It encompasses the liturgy of the Great Church; a 12th-century diataxis in codex; paradigms in the formation of the By

"The essays in Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics explore the literature of Byzantine liturgical communities and provide a window into lived Christianity in this