Approaching the Holy Mountain: Art and Liturgy at St Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai

Contributor(s): Gerstel, Sharon E J (Editor), Nelson, Robert S (Editor)

ISBN: 9782503531274

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Hardcover

$164.00

Pub Date: August 30, 2011

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Multi-Lingual, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.50" H x 9.40" L x 6.40" W ( 3.35 lbs) 638 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Cursor Mundi

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: In this volume authors investigate icons from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries and offer new interpretations of their meaning, provenance, and function. Essays also explore celebrated illuminated Byzantine manuscripts in the library of St Catherine's, pilgrim's accounts of the monastery, a recently excavated early church on the s