Byzantine Tree Life : Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination

• This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries of how communicative trees may be, and how they defend themselves. Considering writings on and images of trees from Late Antiquity and medieval Byzantium sympathetically, the book argues for an arboreal imagination at the root of human aspirations to know and draw close to the divine. 

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Kulturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Cultural Studies (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Etnologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Ethnology (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Religionsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Religious Studies (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Trees

Basil of Caesarea

David of Thessaloniki

Byzantium

Leaves

Leaf theory

Tree of Knowledge

John Chrysostom

icons

dendrites

Byzantine Christianity

hybridity

Ambrose of Milan

Jacob of Serugh

Hexaemeron

Date Palms

Earth

Genesis

Incarnation

Plant sex

Anthropomorphism

Grafting

Almond tree

Symeon the Stylite

Byzantine Iconography

Michel Serres

Animism

Locus amoenus

Plato Phaedrus

Methodius Symposium

Gregory of Nazianzus

Augustine

Jerome

Plane tree

Chaste tree

Gourd tree

Pharmakon

Tree studies

Biblical trees

Theological trees

Philosophy of plants

Environmental studies

Trees

Byzantine Christianity

Dendrites

Icons

Hexaemeron

hybridity

Anthropomorphism

Plant sex

Grafting

Animism

Locus amoenus

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