Liturgical Subjects : Christian Ritual, Biblical Narrative, and the Formation of the Self in Byzantium.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations and a Note on Texts -- Chapter 1. Shaping Liturgical Selves -- Chapter 2. Romanos the Melodist and the Christian Self -- Chapter 3. Calendar and Community in the Sixth Century -- Chapter 4. Eucharistic Prayers: Compunction and the History of Salvation -- Chapter 5. The Penitential Bible and the Great Kanon of Andrew of Crete -- Chapter 6. The Voice of the Sinner in First-Person Hymns of the Lenten Triodion -- Chapter 7. Liturgies of the Monastic Self in Symeon the New Theologian -- Conclusion. A Communion of Savable Sinners -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical Citations -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.

Focusing on the practice of Byzantine Orthodoxy in Constantinople from the sixth to eleventh centuries, Liturgical Subjects examines how hymns, sermons, prayers, and art offered models for Christian self-recognition and scripts for repentance.

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