Publication

2021 - Springer International Publishing AG

Language

English

Word Count

47,500 words, Guess

Page Count

190 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783030759018
  • ISBN-103030759016
  • OCLC Control Number1259526554
  • Better World Books9783030759018
  • Open LibraryOL33919509M

Classifications

  • LCCD1-DX301
  • LCCDF531 .A84 2021

Description

"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."--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Byzantine Tree Life: Christianity and the Arboreal ImaginationSpringer International Publishing AG2021-01-01

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