Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, by Lafayette Photo, London. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, by Lafayette Photo, London. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
The saint, renowned for his discipline over the body, shows tenderness. These verses speak to genuine human fears about the finality of death and the chasm between the living and the dead. Just as Hamlet famously considers Yorick’s skull, a prop to invoke memento mori, Jacob depicts Symeon as holding out his foot for all to behold as we listen.
Read MoreNikos Engonopoulos, Poet and Muse (1938) [Wikimedia].
Beginning of Luke’s Gospel from the 11th c. (Wikimedia Commons)
Beginning of Luke’s Gospel from the 11th c. (Wikimedia Commons)
This volume, replete with color images and detailed charts, is both a resource and an invitation for further research. The range of expertise offered by the volume’s contributors testifies to the interdisciplinarity that animates Byzantine Studies.
Read MoreIn The Virgin in Song, Thomas Arentzen demonstrates the centrality of Mary within the “civic imaginary” of sixth-century Constantinople through an examination of Romanos’s characterization of the Virgin Mother in his kontakia.
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