Byzantine Tree Life : Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination Paperback / softback
by Thomas Arentzen, Virginia Burrus, Glenn Peers
Part of the New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture series
Paperback / softback
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This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees.
It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal.
These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries of how communicative trees may be, and how they defend themselves.
Considering writings on and images of trees from Late Antiquity and medieval Byzantium sympathetically, the book argues for an arboreal imagination at the root of human aspirations to know and draw close to the divine.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:190 pages, 12 Illustrations, color; 6 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 190 p. 18 illus., 12 il
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:13/07/2022
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- ISBN:9783030759049
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:190 pages, 12 Illustrations, color; 6 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 190 p. 18 illus., 12 il
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:13/07/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030759049
