Introduction
Jelena Bogdanović
PART I: SACRED SPACE, ITS TRACES, AND REPRESENTATIONS
1. Sacred Spaces vs Holy Sites: On the Limits and Advantages of a Hierotopic Approach
Michele Bacci
2. Image-Paradigms: The Aesthetics of the Invisible
Andrew Simsky
3. Dazzling Radiance: A Paradigm and a Quiz in Byzantine Chorography and Hierotopy
Nicoletta Isar
4. The Concept of Temenos and the Sectioning of Light
Iakovos Potamianos
5. Byzantine Architectural Form Between Iconicity and Chôra
Jelena Bogdanović
6. Hierochronotopy: Stepping into Timeful Space through Bonanno’s Twelfth Century Door for the Pisa Cathedral
Maria Evangelatou
PART II: ICONS AND HOLY OBJECTS IN SACRED SPACE
7. The Marvelous Hierotopy of the Golden Altar in Milan: A Visual Constantinopolitan Fascination?
Ivan Foletti
8. The Patriarchal Quarters in the South Gallery of Hagia Sophia: Where was the Patriarch’s Throne?
Natalia Teteriatnikov
9. Seeing Toponymic Icons Hierotopically
Annemarie Weyl Carr
10. The Adoration of the Magi: From Iconic Space to Icon in Space
Maria Lidova
11. Encountering Presence: Icon/Relic/Viewer
Ljubomir Milanović
PART III: EMBODIED EXPERIENCES OF SACRED SPACE
12 The Shrines of the Holy King Stefan the First-Crowned in the Sacral Topography of Serbian Lands
Danica Popović and Branislav Todić
13. Travelling Objects and Topographies of Salvation: Agencies and Afterlives of Two Post-Byzantine Proskynētaria
Veronica Della Dora
14. The Sacred Space of the State and its Direction
Ivan Biliarsky
15. Back to the Top of the Mountain: A Syrian Protological Theme in Late Antique and Medieval Representations of the World to Come
Zinaïda Yurovskaya
16. Rapture, Ecstasy, and the Construction of Sacred Space: Hierotopy in the Life of Symeon the New Theologian
Fr. Maximos Constas
Biography
Jelena Bogdanović is Associate Professor at Iowa State University, USA. She specializes in cross-cultural and religious themes in the architecture of the Balkans and Mediterranean. Her publications include The Framing of Sacred Space: The Canopy and the Byzantine Church (2017), and Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium (2018).
