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DESCRIPTION:Sharon E. J. Gerstel will\npresent at the Seminar in Comparativ
 e Medieval Material Culture\non Tuesday\, October 9\, at 6 pm. Her talk is
  entitled “Art and Devotional Practices in the Byzantine\nVillage: The Lon
 g View.”In recent years\, the art\nof the Byzantine village—particularly\n
 that of the Late Byzantine village—has\ncome under increasing scrutiny. In
  addition to manifesting local religious\npractices and liturgical rites\,
  the art of the village is also intimately tied\nto the agricultural calen
 dar and to life-cycle rituals. The small churches of\nthe Byzantine countr
 yside provide precious information about the lives and\ndevotional practic
 es of men and women who\, for the most part\, have remained\ninvisible. In
 deed\, many medieval village churches continue to function as the\ncenter 
 of modern-day family life and ritual. In this talk\, Gerstel\nwill look at
  devotional art in several Greek villages and will also discuss how\nengag
 ing with art in the village may provide opportunities for medievalists to
 \nmove beyond the strict chronological confines of our field to take a mor
 e\nactivist stance in approaching buildings and their communities.Sharon E
 . J. Gerstel is Professor of\nByzantine Art and Archaeology at the Univers
 ity of California\, Los Angeles\,\nwhere she also serves as Acting Directo
 r of the UCLA Stavros Niarchos\nFoundation Center for the Study of Helleni
 c Culture and Associate Director of\nthe Center of Medieval and Renaissanc
 e Studies (CMRS). She is author of Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Program
 s of\nthe Byzantine Sanctuary (1999) and has edited A Lost Art Rediscovere
 d: The Architectural Ceramics of Byzantium\n(with J. Lauffenburger\, 2001)
 \, Thresholds\nof the Sacred: Architectural\, Art Historical\, Archaeologi
 cal\, Liturgical and\nTheological Views on Religious Screens\, East and We
 st (2007)\, Approaching the\nHoly Mountain: Art and Liturgy at St. Catheri
 ne’s Monastery\nin the Sinai (with R. S. Nelson\, 2010)\,\nand Viewing the
  Morea: Land and\nPeople in the Late Medieval Peloponnese (Washington\, DC
 \, 2013). Her most recent book\, Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzant
 ium: Art\, Archaeology\, and\nEthnography (Cambridge\, 2015)\, was awarded
  the prestigious Runciman Award\nby the Anglo-Hellenic League in London (2
 016)\, the inaugural Book Prize by the\nInternational Center for Medieval 
 Art (2016)\, and the Maria Theocharis Prize by\nthe Christian Archaeologic
 al Society in Greece (2017). Together with Chris\nKyriakakis (University o
 f Southern California)\, Gerstel directs Soundscapes of Byzantium\, an\nin
 ternational project devoted to the study of acoustics\, psychoacoustics\,
 \nmonumental decoration\, architecture\, and chant.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Art and Devotional Practices in the Byzantine
  Village
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