Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium

Vasileios Marinis is Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at Yale University, Connecticut. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the Aidan Kavanagh Prize for Outstanding Scholarship at Yale University, a fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, the S. C. and P. C. Coleman Senior Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey,and a Humboldt fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen. Professor Marinis has published on a variety of topics ranging from early Christian tunics decorated with New Testament scenes to medieval tombs, graffiti, and Byzantine transvestite nuns. He is the author of Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople (Cambridge, 2014).

• Introduction; Part I. Theologies: 1. The invention of traditions: Jewish and Christian apocrypha; 2. The diversity of the afterlife in Late Antiquity; 3. Continuity, systemization, and encyclopedism in the Middle Byzantine period; 4. Visualizing the afterlife; 5. Late Byzantium and the encounter with the West; Part II. Liturgies: 6. The afterlife of the soul in liturgical services; 7. Helping and remembering the soul: liturgical commemorations and prayers; 8. Two exceptional services; Conclusions.