Byzantine tree life : Christianity and the arboreal imagination / Thomas Arentzen, Virginia Burrus, Glenn Peers.
Arentzen, Thomas, 1976- author.; Burrus, Virginia, author.; Peers, Glenn, author.
2021
DF520 .A74 2021
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Title Byzantine tree life : Christianity and the arboreal imagination / Thomas Arentzen, Virginia Burrus, Glenn Peers.
Author Arentzen, Thomas, 1976- author.
ISBN 9783030759025 (electronic bk.)
3030759024 (electronic bk.)
3030759016
9783030759018
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75902-5
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-75902-5 doi
Call Number DF520 .A74 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 949.5013
Summary This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that cultures deep involvementand even fascinationwith 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. Thomas Arentzen is Researcher in Greek Philology at Uppsala University and Reader in Church History at Lund University, Sweden. Virginia Burrus is Bishop W. Earl Ledden Distinguished Professor of Religion at Syracuse University, USA. Glenn Peers is Professor in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University, USA.
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Added Author Burrus, Virginia, author.
Peers, Glenn, author.
Series New approaches to Byzantine history and culture.
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1. Introduction
2. Writing on Trees
3. In the Beginning, Trees
4. Becoming-Tree
5. Three Leaves: A Theopoetic Epilogue.

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