Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture, c.500–900

Francesca Dell’Acqua is Assistant Professor of the History of Medieval Art at the University of Salerno, Italy, and holds the Habilitation to Associate Professorship in the History of Medieval Art (ASN 2012). Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi is Senior Research Associate of the History of Philosophy at the University of Salerno, Italy, and holds the Habilitation to Associate Professorship in the History of Medieval Philosophy and Medieval Latin Literature and Philology (ASN 2018).

• Chapter One – Introduction, Francesca Dell’Acqua and Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi.- Chapter Two – Reassessing the Historico–Doctrinal Background of Pseudo-Dionysius’ Image Theory, Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi.- Chapter Three – Eikon and Symbolon in the Corpus Dionysiacum: Scriptures and Sacraments as Aesthetic Categories, Angelo Tavolaro.- Chapter Four – Pseudo-Dionysius and the Importance of Sensible Things, Filip Ivanović.- Chapter Five – The Relation of Monks to Clergy in the Dionysian Hierarchy and its Byzantine Reception, Monk Evgenios Iverites.- Chapter Six – Images of Holy Men in Late Antiquity in Light of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: Framing Spiritual Ascent and Visualising Spiritual Hierarchy, Katherine Marsengill.- Chapter Seven – Pseudo-Dionysius and the Staging of Divine Order in Sixth-Century Architecture, Vladimir Ivanovici.- Chapter Eight – ‘Visual Thinking’ and the Influence of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the Homilies and Hymns of Andrew of Crete,Mary B. Cunningham.- Chapter Nine – Pseudo-Dionysius and the Dormition of the Virgin Platytéra (‘Wider than Heaven’), Francesca Dell’Acqua.- Chapter Ten – Pseudo-Dionysius and the Post-Iconoclastic Mosaic Programme of Hagia Sophia, Natalia Teteriatnikov.