Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 190 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9783030759025
Serie:
New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture Ser.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Byzantine Tree Life -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Writing on Trees -- Places and Trees: Plato's Phaedrus -- Under the Chaste-Tree: Methodius's Symposium -- Under the Plane Tree: Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter 6 to Basil of Caesarea -- Under the Gourd Tree: Augustine's Letter 71 to Jerome -- Trees and Places, Again -- Chapter 3: In the Beginning, Trees -- To Begin With -- The Word Made Wood -- Marveling at Trees -- Lessons in Tree Hugging -- Dates in Love -- Out of His Tree -- Chapter 4: Becoming-Tree -- Cyborg Images -- Stone, Wood, and Animism: Prehistories -- St. David the Dendrite and His Tree-Totaling -- From Trunk to Branch to Advent -- Advent and Budding -- Ubiquitous Grafting -- And the Almond, After All -- Other Dendrites: John and Paul -- Other Dendrites: St. Nicholas the Younger of Voinaina -- Holy Trees -- How Alive Are These Trees? -- Calvino's Baron and Other Novels of Trees -- Chapter 5: Three Leaves: A Theopoetic Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783030759018
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030759018
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Christentum
;
Baum
;
Geschichte
