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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49139-6 — Performing the Gospels in Byzantium Roland Betancourt Index More Information Ww Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49139-6 — Performing the Gospels in Byzantium Roland Betancourt Index More Information Index Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. Manuscripts and objects will be found under city and institution (e.g. New York, Morgan Library); they are also indexed by name (Dionysiou Lectionary) and specific object type (chancel barrier). Buildings are listed by name, if well-known, and by location. acoustemology, 230n48, 230–32 Athanasios of Alexandria, On the acoustics, 231 Incarnation, 189, 230 Akathistos Hymn, 186, 189 Athens, National Library of Greece. See also Alexios I Komnenos (emperor), 112–13 Athens Lectionary Alpers, Svetlana, 7n13 Cod. 59, 72–73,72 ambos, 221–23, 232, 250n16, 252, 255–61 Cod. 163, 228 Ancient of Days, Godhead represented as, 22, Cod. 190, 2n7 123–34, 149, 155 Cod. 2645, 228 Anderson, Jeffrey, 85, 113 Athens Lectionary (Athens, National Library Anthony of Novgorod, 265 of Greece, Cod. 68) Aphthonios, Progymnasmata,13 “E” initial, visual grammar and syntax of, apostrophoi, 208–16 70,72 Appadurai, Arjun, 16n32 Godhead, representation of, 126, 128 apse, Hagia Sophia illuminated initials and evangelist images of, c5f91, 202 portraits in, 51, 52 Justinianic apse and opus sectile panel, as one of affiliated group of manuscripts 258–60 studied, 2n7 relief plaque/Paris Gregory image invoking, Auzépy, Marie-France, 270 197–203, 199, 298 Theotokos image in, 31, 33–34, 37–40 baptism of Christ, 204–5, 250, 252 architecture and sound, 4–5, 15–22, 25. See Barber, Charles, 112 also liturgical space; reading the Barberini Psalter (Vatican City, Biblioteca lectionary; specific structures Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Barb. acoustemology, 230n48, 230–32 Gr. 372B), 44, 113 acoustics, of churches and monasteries, bareiai, 208–15 231 Barlaam and Joasaph, 124 chanters as primary users and viewers of Barry, Fabio, 251 lectionaries, 12 Basil I (emperor), 34–45 fountains, as sonic instruments, 254 Basil II (emperor), 193 opus sectile panel, Imperial Doorway, Basil the Great, 132, 181, 183 Hagia Sophia generatively responding Basil the Great, liturgy of, 74 to sonic associations, 235–36 St. Basiliskos, 239, 242 Photios speaking on silence under Belting, Hans, 7n13 resonant domes of Hagia Sophia, 31–32 Bennett, Jill, 16n32 reconstructions of Byzantine chant, 216 Bergson, Henri, 16n32 water and speech, association of, 255 Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Coptic grave stele of Arius, 132 Theodote depicting Holy Sepulcher, Ascension, 91, 93, 108 246, 249 319 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49139-6 — Performing the Gospels in Byzantium Roland Betancourt Index More Information 320 Index Berlin Psalter (now at Hermitage; formerly Capella Romana, reconstructions of Byzantine Berlin University, Christian Museum, chant by, 216 3807), 181–83, 182 Carile, Maria Cristina, 237 Bernard of Clairvaux, 119 Chalcedonian Decree (1451), 122 Blachernai Church, Constantinople, 277–78 Chalke Gate, Constantinople blessing hand in initial epsilon, 37, 39, 42, icon of Christ, 262–71, 275, 278, 280 72–74 iconoclastic epigram, 38 Bogost, Ian, 5, 20, 121 Sunday of Orthodoxy procession passing Bolter, Jay David, 21 through, 278–79 Book of Ceremonies (Constantine VII Chalkoprateia neighborhood, Constantinople Porphyrogennetos), 169, 196, 271, church of Christ the Savior in, 113 275–80 church of the Virgin Chalkoprateia, Bourbouhakis, Emmanuel, 20 113 Bristol Psalter, 44 chancel barrier fragment (Washington, DC, Brown, Bill, 16n32 Dumbarton Oaks) depicting Holy Brubaker, Leslie, 34, 44 Sepulcher, 246, 247 Byzantine chant. See also ekphonetic notation chant. See Byzantine chant primary users and viewers of lectionaries, chant marks. See ekphonetic notation chanters as, 12 chanters as primary users and viewers of reconstructions of, 216 lectionaries, 12 sound of water and, 255 Charlemagne, 246n14 Byzantine lectionaries, 1–28, 285–86 cheironomia (hand gestures), 211n20 affiliated group of manuscripts studied, 2 Cherubic Hymn, 172 (See also specific manuscripts) Chora Monastery architecture and sound, 4–5, 15–22, 25 (See mosaic icon of Christ, narthex, 265, 266 also architecture and sound; liturgical mosaic icon of Christ, nave, 267, 268 space; reading the lectionary) Christ as artistic versus functional objects, 5–11 baptism of, 204–5, 250, 252 audience, reception of oral transmission of Chalke Gate icon of, 262–71, 275, 278, 280 images by, 11–15 Chora Monastery mosaic icons of, 265, 266, chanters, as primary users and viewers, 12 267, 268 defined, 1 Imperial Doorway, Hagia Sophia, icon of interplay of image/text/sound, 1–4, 11–15, Christ over, 257, 262–70, 275, 280 23, 285–86 (See also error, confusion, as living book, in Romanos the Melodist’s and misdirection; interplay of text, Hymn on Peter’s Denial, 189 image, and sound; visual grammar and as “new song,” 230 syntax) reading Gospel lectionary as theophanic as “media,” 21 manifestation of, 188–90 methodological approach to, 285 representations of Godhead and, 22, 125–34, minor changes to text of lection, 194 149, 155 oral transmission of images, 11–15 Christ Pantokrator, manuscripts in polyvalent images, 3, 27, 281–82, 285–86 representations of, 196 (See also opus sectile panel over Christian Topography (Kosmas Imperial Doorway; relief plaque over Indikopleustes), 251 Imperial Doorway) Church Fathers. See also specific Fathers procedural unfolding of, 1–28 (See also on acoustemology, 230 procedural rhetoric of Byzantine as ἔνθεος, 181–83 lectionaries) Clement of Alexandria, Protreptikos, 230 cock’s crow in Peter’s betrayal, depiction of, Camille, Michael, 9, 11n23, 11, 119–20 57–66 Image on the Edge,8 Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (emperor), Canon Tables, Fountain of Life motif in, Book of Ceremonies, 169, 196, 271, 246n14 275–80 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49139-6 — Performing the Gospels in Byzantium Roland Betancourt Index More Information Index 321 Constantinople. See also Chalke Gate; Hagia nomina sacra and glosses, absence of, 115, Sophia 117 Blachernai Church, 277–78 as one of affiliated group of manuscripts church of Christ the Savior in Chalkoprateia, studied, 2n7 113 reparative engagement with actual error in, church of the Virgin Chalkoprateia, 173 159–63, 160, 162, 164 Hagia Eirene, 220, 235 “T” initial, formula for, 80, 81,96 Monastery of Theotokos Evergetis, usage, signs of, 6 synaxarion of, 269 Dioscurides, De materia medica,36 monuments of city and opus sectile panel, Divine Antiphons, 170 spatial associations between, 278 “Divine Apostles” (reading of Epistles), 171 Pharos Chapel, 237 Dolezal, Mary-Lyon, 11, 112 Constantinople, Council of (381), image of dolphins, imperial associations of, 271–74, enthroned Gospels at (in Paris 272–73, 276–77 Gregory), 188n54, 197–203, 298 doors, Hagia Sophia. See also Imperial Coptic grave stele of Theodote (Berlin, Doorway Staatliche Museen) depicting Holy marble doors, southeast gallery, 274, 276–77 Sepulcher, 246, 249 narthex doors, 253, 279 Corrigan, Kathleen, 130 Doubting Thomas, 104 Councils of the Church Dresden Praxapostolos (Dresden, Sächsische Chalcedon (1451), 122 Landesbibliothek, cod. A 104), 276–80 Constantinople (381), 188n54, 197–203, 298 Dumbarton Oaks Lectionary (Washington, Ephesus (431), 188 DC, Dumbarton Oaks, Cod. 1) crucifix, as verse representation, in Paris cock’s crow in Peter’s betrayal, depiction of, Lectionary, 139, 141 63,63–65 cruciform halo, use of, 126–34 Godhead, representations of, 125, 125 Cutler, Anthony, 44 illuminated initials and evangelist portraits Cyril of Alexandria, 188 in, 55 marginalia and miniatures, visual grammar Dale, Thomas, 11 and syntax of, 91, 92, 108 Damascus, Great Mosque of, courtyard as one of affiliated group of manuscripts mosaics, 236, 238 studied, 2n7 Sts. David, Symeon, and George, Vita of, 277 De materia medica (Dioscurides), 36 Ecclesiastical History (Sokrates Scholastikos), Derrida, Jacques, 22 221 Dionysiou Homilies (Mount Athos, Dionysiou Ecclesiastical History (Sozomenos), 223 Monastery, Cod. 61), 98, 115 Eirene (empress), 271 Dionysiou Lectionary (Mount Athos, ekphonetic notation (chant marks) Dionysiou Monastery, Cod. 587) cheironomia (hand gestures), indicating, ambo, representation of, 257, 258 211n20 audience and reception, 11 defined, 2 dating of, 112 ink used for, 115, 117 Godhead, representation of, 24, 126, 127, miniatures/marginalia compared to, 13 130–34, 131, 133 reader’s use of, 173, 177 habitus of Byzantine liturgical viewers/ for reading John 10:7 text, 208–17 hearers and, 112 ekphrasis, 13 headpieces in, 88 Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia (Michael the illuminated initials and evangelist portraits, Deacon), 205, 252 45–47, 46, 56, 57 Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia (Paul the Silentiary), John, mistaken identities of, 145–59, 147–48, 220, 223, 252–54, 257, 274 153 Ektene (Litany of Supplication), 172 miniatures/marginalia, visual grammar and emperors. See imperial family/emperor; specific syntax o, 88, 96, 102 emperors by name © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49139-6 — Performing the Gospels in Byzantium Roland Betancourt Index More Information 322 Index empty tomb, depictions of discovery of, 135 Fountain of Life motif, 184, 186n46, 225–29, ἐν- terms suggesting artistic representation as 226–28, 246–54 hypostatic condition, 190n60 fountains, as sonic instruments, 254 Engberg, Sysse, 208 Franses, Rico, 190 enthroned Gospels. See also relief plaque over
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