Late Byzantine Liturgical Vestments and the Iconography of Sacerdotal Power
Woodfin, Warren Theriot
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Description
Title
Late Byzantine Liturgical Vestments and the Iconography of Sacerdotal Power
Author(s)
Woodfin, Warren Theriot
Issue Date
2002
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Maguire, Henry
Department of Study
Art History
Discipline
Art History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History, Church
Language
eng
Abstract
Previous 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.
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