The Byzantines and Nature in the Christian Worldview

Henry Maguire

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Page Range:: 181–202

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689350_009

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This chapter is concerned with Byzantine attitudes toward nature and its place in the Christian worldview. Through a review of literary and artistic sources it covers: the initial Christian opposition to pagan nature worship; the rehabilitation of nature and its incorporation into early Byzantine thinking and art; the rising opposition to portrayals of nature in Christian art, especially in the form of personifications; the impact of environmental change, such as drought, on early Byzantine church art; and finally the later medieval view of the wealth of the land, as illustrated by the carvings of tenth- and eleventh-century ivory boxes on which agricultural plenty was shown to be assured only through the mindfulness of the Christian God and through penance for sin.

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A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium

丛编： Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World, 卷： 13

ISBN:: 9789004689350

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 23 Feb 2024

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Part 1 The Basics: Methods and Evidence

Part 2 Case Studies: Environmental History at Work

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