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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Late Byzantine Liturgical Vestments and the Iconography of Sacerdotal Power
Abstract
dc:descriptionPrevious scholars have argued that the Orthodox clergy actively borrowed elements from the dress of the emperor and his court in the late Byzantine period. I argue that, in addition, the decoration of liturgical vestments adapts the hierarchical code of imperial imagery used on court costume. Byzantine court officials wore garments bearing imperial portraits, symbolic emblems, and particular colors to signify the power vested in them by the emperor. Without exactly paralleling the court garments, late Byzantine liturgical vestments bore analogous decoration that established a symbolic hierarchy dependent on Christ rather than the emperor as its head.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Art History
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Woodfin, Warren Theriot
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Maguire, Henry
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3044262
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87365