Byzantine Religious Culture

526 Pages·2011·13.79 MB·English

by  Elizabeth Fisher and Stratis Papaioannou Edited by Denis Sullivan

Byzantine Religious Culture
The Medieval Mediterranean
Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500
Managing Editor
Hugh Kennedy
SOAS, London
Editors
Paul Magdalino, St. Andrews
David Abulafia, Cambridge
Benjamin Arbel, Tel Aviv
Larry J. Simon, Western Michigan University
Olivia Remie Constable, Notre Dame
Frances Andrews, St. Andrews
VOLUME 92
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Byzantine Religious Culture
Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot
Edited by
Denis Sullivan
Elizabeth Fisher
Stratis Papaioannou

LEIDEN • BOSTON
2012
Cover illustration: Detail from a miniature in the mid-12th c. manuscript known as the
Madrid Skylitzes (Madrid Biblioteca Nacional vitr. 26–2, fol. 84r). It bears the caption
“the mother of Basil narrates her vision to the woman.” With kind permission of the
Biblioteca Nacional de España.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Byzantine religious culture : studies in honor of Alice-Mary Talbot / edited by Denis Sullivan,
Elizabeth Fisher, Stratis Papaioannou.
p. cm. — (The medieval Mediterranean, ISSN 0928-5520 ; v. 92)
English, French, and German.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-90-04-21244-2 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Byzantine Empire—Religious life
and customs. I. Talbot, Alice-Mary Maffry. II. Sullivan, Denis. III. Fisher, Elizabeth A.
IV. Papaioannou, Stratis.
BX300.B995 2012
274.95'04—dc23
2011036378
ISSN 0928-5520
ISBN 978 90 04 21244 2
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ............................................................................ xi
List of Contributors ........................................................................... xvii
Introduction ........................................................................................ xxi
Publications of Alice-Mary Talbot ................................................. xxvii
List of Abbreviations ......................................................................... xxxv
WOMEN
Including the ‘Despised Woman’: Jacob of Serug at the Nativity
Feast ................................................................................................. 3
Susan Ashbrook Harvey
A Meeting of Hypatia of Alexandria with St. Febronia of
Nisibis in the Life of Sts. David, Symeon and George of
Lesbos .............................................................................................. 19
Alexander Alexakis
Une hôtesse importante de l’église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de
l’Oxeia à Constantinople : Fébronie ........................................... 31
Michel Kaplan
Learned Women of Byzantium and the Surviving Record ........ 53
Maria Mavroudi
Women in Byzantine History in the Tenth and Eleventh
Centuries: Some Theoretical Considerations ............................ 85
Stamatina McGrath
Anna Komnene’s Will ...................................................................... 99
Stratis Papaioannou
viii contents
ICONS AND IMAGES
The Matter of the Word in an Icon in Houston .......................... 125
Annemarie Weyl Carr
The Other Image at the Palace Gate and the Visual Propaganda
of Leo III ......................................................................................... 139
Paul Magdalino
Sacred Objects with Holy Light: Byzantine Icons with
Chrysography ................................................................................. 155
Jaroslav Folda
‘Tiles of Nicomedia’ and the Cult of Saint Panteleimon ........... 173
Sharon E. J. Gerstel
Michael Psellos on the ‘Usual’ Miracle at Blachernae, the Law,
and Neoplatonism ......................................................................... 187
Elizabeth A. Fisher
“Pangs of Labor without Pain”: Observations on the
Iconography of the Nativity in Byzantium ............................... 205
Henry Maguire
Byzantine ‘Medals’: Coins, Amulets and Piety ............................. 217
Cécile Morrisson and Simon Bendall
New Evidence on Lead Flasks and Devotional Patterns: From
Crusader Jerusalem to Byzantium .............................................. 239
Brigitte Pitarakis
The Posthumous Miracles of St. Eustratios on a Sinai Templon
Beam ................................................................................................ 267
Nancy Patterson Ševčenko
contents ix
TEXTS, PRACTICES, SPACES
Hagiography and the Cult of Saints in the Light of Epigraphy
and Acclamations .......................................................................... 291
Claudia Rapp
The Jewish Boy Legend and the ‘Western Twist’ ......................... 313
John Duffy
Saints and Saracens: On Some Miracle Accounts of the Early
Arab Period .................................................................................... 323
Arietta Papaconstantinou
The Monastery of Diomedes ............................................................ 339
John W. Nesbitt
Les saints d’Italie méridionale (IXe–XIIe s.) et leur rôle dans la
société locale ................................................................................... 347
Stéphanos Efthymiades
Zur Memorialkultur im byzantinischen Mittelalter .................... 373
Michael Grünbart
Siege Warfare, Nikephoros II Phokas, Relics and Personal
Piety ................................................................................................. 395
Denis F. Sullivan
An Anonymous Narrative of the Martyrdom of the Anchorites
of Mount Sinai (BHG 307d) ........................................................ 411
Angela Constantinides Hero
Nicholas the Monk and Former Soldier ........................................ 421
Paul Stephenson and Brooke Shilling
The Testament of the Patriarch Athanasios I of Constantinople
(1289–93, 1303–09) ....................................................................... 439
Manolis S. Patedakis
Index .................................................................................................... 465