@book{e3f532591d8642fe974e9a660a7cad00,
title = "XOP{\'O}S = Chor{\'o}s : the dance of Adam: The Making of Byzantine Chorography. The Anthropology of the Choir of Dance in Byzantium",
abstract = "This book is of great value as regards the originality and the novelty of the subject. It introduces for the first time a new concept in Byzantine studies, and a tool for research of sacred space (¿¿¿¿¿). The author demonstrates the thesis that sacred space in Byzantium is a performative choral space. Byzantine chorography is the inscription of sacred space ¿¿¿a by the mystical dance,¿¿¿¿¿. Chorography is intimately associated with Hierotopy in spirit and vocation, for both aim to contribute to uncovering the apparatus and the process, by which sacred space was created in Byzantium. The originality of Isar{\textquoteright}s Chorography stands in unveiling and enforcing an important paradigm (¿¿¿¿¿) in the Byzantine studies, which has deep roots in ancient practices. However, the Byzantine ¿¿¿¿¿ reflects a unique ontology, a new vision of the mode of being, creation and imagination in Byzantium. Its ontology is contained in the very title of the book: “the Dance of Adam.” This dance alone gives ontological meaning to the Byzantine subject, to the whole Byzantine ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿a. In this choral equation, Adam stands for the humanity all-embracing. The book reads ¿¿¿¿¿ from an interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating anthropological, theological, and performative aspects.",
keywords = "Faculty of Humanities, byzantinsk kultur, sakral rum, sakral dans, byzantine culture, sacred space, sacred dance",
author = "Nicoletta Isar",
year = "2011",
month = may,
day = "25",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-94-90387-04-4",
publisher = "Alexandros Press",
}