Iconic Space and the Materiality of the Sign1

Lock, Charles

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“…Both statements reflect the paradigm of iconic signification that is fundamental to Byzantine semiotics, as described in Olteanu 2021 and specifically with regard to liturgy by Mellas (2020aMellas ( , 2020b. The point is that religious practices of Byzantine Christianity comprise multimodality: Scripture offers images through written text (see Lock 1997). Paintings as iconography do the same, albeit in a different modality.…”

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“Have you not heard, my soul [...]?”: The Great Kanon of St Andrew of Crete as a multimodal autocommunicative text

Van Boom,

Olteanu

2023

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This paper examines the Great Kanon (also Great Canon; in the original Greek, Ὁ Μέγας Κανών) of St Andrew of Crete (ca. 660–740) as a case study in how religious ritual texts deploy autocommunicative processes. To study this complex liturgical hymn that occupies a key role in the ritual practice of Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Christians we employ a theoretical framework rooted primarily in Juri Lotman’s theory of autocommunication, as complemented by more recent developments in social and cognitive semiotics, particularly ideas of multimodality and viewpoint. We find that the Great Kanon performs a variety of autocommunicative functions, primarily through its provision of a rhetorical metalanguage for the interpretation of the Old and New Testaments. This is a metalanguage which is multimodally enacted in ritual performance. The process makes the believer’s experience of reading the Bible an open and unfolding dialogue, in which the viewpoints of biblical characters become models for (re)interpreting one’s life experiences and reshaping one’s sense of self. The paper ultimately highlights that analyses of ritual texts, which deploy methods from cultural and cognitive semiotics, can deepen our understanding of autocommunication.

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“Have you not heard, my soul [...]?”: The Great Kanon of St Andrew of Crete as a multimodal autocommunicative text

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Olteanu

2023

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“…As regards the underlying causes of the iconoclast controversy, these should not be sought exclusively in external influences but mostly in the inherent character of Byzantine theology. Iconoclasm was not a new phenomenon in Byzantine thought; it seems quite possible that Byzantine imperial Iconoclasm might have been associated with an underlying Neoplatonic negative attitude towards matter in the Byzantine world, as Charles Lock has aptly proposed . The attack on icons was therefore based on a biblically‐articulated Neoplatonism .…”

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A Critical Presentation of the Iconology ofSt.John of Damascus in the Context of the Byzantine Iconoclastic Controversies

Pallis

2014

The Heythrop Journal

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This study examines the theology of St. John of Damascus on images in the context of the Byzantine iconoclastic controversies. Following a brief outline of the historical, political and theological difficulties relevant to this phenomenon, the Christological and ontological dimensions of John's iconology are presented. John's iconological thought is Christ-centered and develops the teaching of the Church on Christ's person and two natures. He formulates an iconological realism based on the Incarnation. This study also analyzes the role of matter as charged with divine energy and grace, the function of the icon as symbol, and the development of a cognitive theory in John's treatises on images. Lastly, John's theology regarding the sixth kind of image, namely the natural icon, is contextualized within the metaphysical/cosmological chain of images he constructs. This contributes an ontological dimension to his theological discourse and grounds its fundamental importance for Christian faith, which he viewed as threatened by the conflict under discussion.

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2024

Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances in the Pulsatile Imaginary

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Iconic Space and the Materiality of the Sign1

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“Have you not heard, my soul [...]?”: The Great Kanon of St Andrew of Crete as a multimodal autocommunicative text

“Have you not heard, my soul [...]?”: The Great Kanon of St Andrew of Crete as a multimodal autocommunicative text

A Critical Presentation of the Iconology ofSt.John of Damascus in the Context of the Byzantine Iconoclastic Controversies

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