This article evaluates the significance of processions in Byzantine Constantinople and the role of dancing within them. Evidence is drawn from literary sources concerning imperial, church-sponsored, guild, hippodrome and more spontaneous urban processions, as well as from material culture. Medieval Constantinople saw a large number of processions, perhaps two a week, and they traversed all areas of the city. They were noisy affairs, accompanied by chanting, acclamations and, often, musical noise, so that even when they were not directly visible, they were audible more or less everywhere in the city. Dancing was incorporated in all but liturgical processions (though it may also have been part of these, on occasion). Processions could create ...
Coronations in Byzantium were an extraordinary testing ground rich in ritual and ceremonial signific...
With the foundation of Constantinople, Constantine the Great created a cuty highly successful in mee...
The following article tries to deal with the different meanings that the Fall of Constantinople had ...
This paper discusses supplicatory liturgical processions (litae) and their routes in eleventh-centur...
Starting in the ninth century but gaining momentum the late tenth century Byzantium reclaimed its te...
he purpose of this article is to comment on three dance-related passages from the Χρονικὴ διήγησις...
This paper attempts to highlight the significant role of Constantinopolitan chanters in the developm...
Some of the Byzantine liturgical celebrations devoted to the city of Constantinople were (partially)...
This study concerns the representation of the movement of dance in various fields of Byzantine art :...
Processions were an integral part of Venetian religious and civic life. State and church were inextr...
pp. 52-63 of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, Issue 4 (2016). The complete issue can be...
It is the purpose of this article to examine the emergence of the Christian rituals of power and his...
Analysis of various sources from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages, with a focus on texts by C...
Translated by Katarzyna GucioThe complicated fates of the Porphyry Column of emperor Constantine res...
Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Entstehung von Prozessionen und Pilgerfahrten im antiken Gri...
Coronations in Byzantium were an extraordinary testing ground rich in ritual and ceremonial signific...
With the foundation of Constantinople, Constantine the Great created a cuty highly successful in mee...
The following article tries to deal with the different meanings that the Fall of Constantinople had ...
This paper discusses supplicatory liturgical processions (litae) and their routes in eleventh-centur...
Starting in the ninth century but gaining momentum the late tenth century Byzantium reclaimed its te...
he purpose of this article is to comment on three dance-related passages from the Χρονικὴ διήγησις...
This paper attempts to highlight the significant role of Constantinopolitan chanters in the developm...
Some of the Byzantine liturgical celebrations devoted to the city of Constantinople were (partially)...
This study concerns the representation of the movement of dance in various fields of Byzantine art :...
Processions were an integral part of Venetian religious and civic life. State and church were inextr...
pp. 52-63 of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, Issue 4 (2016). The complete issue can be...
It is the purpose of this article to examine the emergence of the Christian rituals of power and his...
Analysis of various sources from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages, with a focus on texts by C...
Translated by Katarzyna GucioThe complicated fates of the Porphyry Column of emperor Constantine res...
Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Entstehung von Prozessionen und Pilgerfahrten im antiken Gri...
Coronations in Byzantium were an extraordinary testing ground rich in ritual and ceremonial signific...
With the foundation of Constantinople, Constantine the Great created a cuty highly successful in mee...
The following article tries to deal with the different meanings that the Fall of Constantinople had ...