Χορóς: the Dance of Adam. The Making of Byzantine Chorography

by Nicoletta Isar

This book sets out the hypothesis about the choral dance of Adam, inaugurating a new concept in the Byzantine studies, a tool for research, as well as bringing a new vision of the mode of being, creation and imagination in Byzantium. The author's investigation has an anthropological character, in the sense of working out the phenomena in their own terms, that is, in terms of the things themselves. It is especially throughout the poetics of the Byzantine ekphraseis, eloquently describing the performative nature of sacred images, as well as in the very structure of their liturgical enactment that the Byzantine Χορóς emerges as a paradigm.

444 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011