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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Dissolving with Lazarus : Late Ancient Liturgical Bodies in Pieces
- 2017
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Ingår i: Studia Theologica. - 0039-338X .- 1502-7791. ; 71:2, s. 173-198
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The day before Palm Sunday, early Christians celebrated the biblical figure of Lazarus. This article surveys late ancient liturgical compositions for this feast. It explores the way in which the authors described the disintegration and reintegration of Lazarus’ body. His death and reinvigoration surely point towards the resurrection of Christ; yet the detailed and morbid displays which these liturgical texts create suggest that the authors worked with more complex pallets. I argue that we should resist the temptation of a simplistic reading of the Byzantine liturgical past. Scholars are currently rediscovering the subtleties of Byzantine literary composition, but religious texts are still largely viewed as simple, didactic and naïve. Lazarus actually appears as a grotesquely dynamic corpse. At the same time his body is just as ordinary and human as any of the people who heard the macabre stories. He was them. This makes the liturgical works into texts about the churchgoers’ decay. I suggest that the authors projected the chilling imagery of dissolving bodies with an aim similar to that of modern writers of grotesque literature; it speaks to the ambivalent awareness of human mortality. The homilists and hymnographers addressed the abject embodied experiences of their congregation.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Holy Arousal
- 2019
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-
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In the Shadow of Pillars
- 2019
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2019
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Ingår i: The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. - 9781108476287 ; , s. 1-13
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Kjødets teologi : Romanos Meloden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Gud er alltid større. - : Novus Forlag. - 9788270998319 ; , s. 223-239
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Mary Retold
- 2019
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Ingår i: Ancient Jew Review.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-, et al.
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Prolog
- 2019
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Ingår i: Patristica Nordica Annuaria. - 2001-2365. ; 34, s. 3-4
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-, et al.
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Romanos in Manuscript : Some Observations on the Patmos Kontakarion
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016. - : Serbian National Committee of AIEB. - 9788680656106 ; , s. 648-654
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Struggling with Romanos’s ‘Dagger of Taste’
- 2017
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Ingår i: Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls. - Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. - 9780884024217 ; , s. 169-182
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-
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The Dialogue of Annunciation : Germanos of Constantinople versus Romanos the Melode
- 2019
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Ingår i: The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. - 9781108696791 ; , s. 151-169
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The story of the Annunciation (Lk 1:26–38) inspired a flourishing tradition of homiletic and hymnographic literature in early Christianity. A recurring feature of this strand was the portrayal of characters through dialogue.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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The Virgin in Hades
- 2018
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Ingår i: Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004372665 ; , s. 287-303
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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The Virgin in Song : Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist
- 2017
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- According to legend, the Virgin appeared one Christmas Eve to an artless young man standing in one of Constantinople's most famous Marian shrines. She offered him a scroll of papyrus with the injunction that he swallow it, and following the Virgin's command, he did so. Immediately his voice turned sweet and gentle as he spontaneously intoned his hymn "The Virgin today gives birth." So was born the career of Romanos the Melodist (ca. 485-560), one of the greatest liturgical poets of Byzantium, author of at least sixty long hymns, or kontakia, that were chanted during the night vigils preceding major feasts and festivals.In The Virgin in Song, Thomas Arentzen explores the characterization of Mary in these kontakia and the ways in which the kontakia echoed the cult of the Virgin. He focuses on three key moments in her story as marked in the liturgical calendar: her encounter with Gabriel at the Annunciation, her child's birth at Christmas, and the death of her son on Good Friday. Consistently, Arentzen contends, Romanos counters expectations by shifting emphasis away from Christ himself to focus on Mary—as the subject of the erotic gaze, as a breastfeeding figure of abundance and fertility, and finally as an authoritatively vocal woman who conveys the secrets of her son and the joys of the resurrection.Through his hymns, Romanos inspired an affective relationship between Mary and his audience, bringing the human and the holy into dialogue. By plumbing her emotional depths, the poet traces her process of understanding as she apprehends the mysteries that she embodies. By giving her a powerful voice, he grants subjectivity to a maiden who becomes a mediator. Romanos shaped a figure, Arentzen argues, who related intimately to her flock in a formative period of Christian orthodoxy.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Voices Interwoven : Refrains and Vocal Participation in the Kontakia
- 2017
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Ingår i: Jahrbuch der Østerreichischen Byzantinistik. - : Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. - 0378-8660 .- 1810-536X. ; 66, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Refrains were vital to the hymnic genres which emerged in Late Antiquity: the Hebrew piyyut, the Syriac madrasha, and the Greek kontakion. This article studies the complexities of congregational participation by exploring the narrative dynamics of refrains in relation to the hymn-performance in Constantinopolitan churches. The most outstanding and influential refrain composer seems to have been Romanos the Melodist. Through a close reading of his kontakion On the Ten Virgins I (LI), this article shows how thoroughly Romanos enhances the involvement of the assembly, on both a vocal and an emotional level. At the same time, the identification of the singer with the narrator in the hymn is carefully blurred. Although many scholars have interpreted kontakia as “verse homilies”, the dynamics of the refrains contributes to a destabilization of the roles (teacher–pupils) typical in homilies.
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Mellan tid och evighet : Eskatologiska perspektiv i den tidiga kyrkan. Föreläsningar hållna vid Nordiska patristikermötet i Lund 18–20 augusti 2014
- 2016
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I de tidigaste kristna texterna är förväntningar och föreställningar inför de yttersta tiderna inte bara ett i mängden av teman. Eskatologin står snarare i centrum. Vi finner dock inte en enhetlighet och allmänt accepterad eskatologi under dessa första århundraden, utan en mångfald av eskatologier. Komplexiteten kännetecknar också artiklarna i denna bok, som berör tidigkristen eskatologi i relation till en rad centrala tidigkristna texter och författare: Irenaeus av Lyon, Andra Baruk, Nag Hammadi-skrifterna, Theodoretos av Kyrros och Maximos bekännaren. Alla artiklarna är skrivna av ledande nordiska forskare.
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- Münz-Manor, Ophir
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Soundscapes of Salvation : Resounding Refrains in Jewish and Christian Liturgical Poems
- 2019
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Ingår i: Studies in Late Antiquity. - : University of California Press. - 2470-2048. ; 3:1, s. 36-55
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We do not know how hymns in Late Antiquity sounded. We do know that refrains became an important aspect of hymnody in the period, not only among Christians in the capital accustomed to acclamations, but also among Hebrew-speaking Jews and Syriac-speaking Christians further east. This article investigates ways that the refrains contributed to shaping soundscapes or sonic space. The article constitutes a study of three of the era's most outstanding liturgical poets: Yose ben Yose and Yannai who wrote piyyutim in Hebrew and Romanos the Melodist who wrote kontakia in Greek. Refrains should ring loudly, and all three poets show a distinct awareness of the refrain's ability to shape the performative space. Throughout the song, the refrain would return repeatedly as an echo and saturate the room with loud voices. The hymnographers used this feature semantically, to dye the soundscapes with highly charged or pregnant notions, so that eventually the singing of the songs themselves gave way to the experience of community and deliverance. Conducted by poets, voices gathered to create soundscapes of salvation.
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The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium : Marian Narratives in Texts and Images
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and textual evidence from both Byzantine and Muslim-ruled territories that was intended for a variety of settings and audiences and seeks to explain why Byzantine artisans and writers chose to tell stories about Mary, the Mother of God, in such different ways. Sometimes the variation reflected the theological or narrative purposes of story-tellers; sometimes it expressed their personal spiritual preoccupations. Above all, the variety of aspects that this holy figure assumed in Byzantium reveals her paradoxical theological position as meeting-place and mediator between the divine and created realms. Narrative, whether 'historical', theological, or purely literary, thus played a fundamental role in the development of the Marian cult from Late Antiquity onward.
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