Byzantine Tree Life
Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination
Glenn Peers author Thomas Arentzen author Virginia Burrus author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Published:12th Jul '21
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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.
ISBN: 9783030759018
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 404g
190 pages
1st ed. 2021