Sacralizing Violence in Byzantium: Hymns, Empire, and the Narrowing of Christian Identity

by George E. Demacopoulos

Christians had always been concerned, since the faith's inception, about the relationship between violence and belief. In Byzantium, this tension was explored not only in abstract theological texts but in the songs people sang: hymns, a multivalent, fluid form of devotion that served as the meeting place between theological conviction and lived religious experience.

Sacralizing Violence in Byzantium is the first book to examine the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884025233
• ISBN13: 9780884025238
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
• Length: 248 Pages