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By Veronica della Dora

Nature is as a lot an idea as a actual fact. through 'placing' nature inside Byzantine tradition and in the discourse of Orthodox Christian suggestion and perform, panorama, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes in the direction of construction which are totally and fascinatingly diversified from the trendy. Drawing on Patristic writing and on Byzantine literature and artwork, the publication develops a clean conceptual framework for coming near near Byzantine perceptions of house and the surroundings. It takes readers on an imaginary flight over the Earth and its diversified topographies of gardens and desert, mountains and caves, rivers and seas, and invitations them to shift from the linear time of heritage to the cyclical time and areas of the sacred - the time and areas of everlasting returns and revelations.

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