Description: These papers discuss how orthodoxy was defined, and the different interests that it represented; how orthodoxy was expressed in art and the music of the liturgy; and how orthodoxy helped shape the Byzantine Empire's sense of its own identity, an identity defined against the 'other'-Jews, heretics and, especially from the turn of the first millennium, the Latin West. These considerations raise wider questions about the way in which societies and groups use world-views and issues of belief to express and articulate identity.
Review Quotes: '... this volume is a welcome collection of careful research and clear expression on the orthodoxies we usually fail to recognize, whether in the Byzantine or other contexts. Andrew Louth's most insightful introduction, which sets the papers into the larger context of historical theology while also relating them to each other, is especially commended to the reader.' Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies