Akathistos Hymnos and Intermedial Compositional Processes in Later Byzantium

Jon C. Cubas Díaz is Lecturer at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He previously held teaching and research positions at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rostock.

• Chapter 1. Sung, Written, Painted: New Approaches to the Akathistos Hymn.- Chapter 2. The Manuscript Tradition of the Akathistos Hymn.- Chapter 3. Hail, Bride Without Bridegroom! Alleluia!: The Akathistos Refrains in Simple Chant and Artful Composition.- Chapter 4. When Iconography and Typika Meet: Performing the Ἀκάθιστος ὕμνος in Time and Space.- Chapter 5. The Ἀκάθιστος ὕμνος as Musical Staging: Between Phantasmagoria and Reality.- Chapter 6. The Cycle of the Akathistos Hymn in the ‘Latin Chapel’ of the Monastery of St. John Lampadistis in Kalopanagiotis, Cyprus.- Chapter 7. A Song of Victory on the Eve of the Fall: Re-framing the Akathistos Escurialensis.- Chapter 8. The Visual Rendering of the Akathistos Hymn in Venetian Crete: Unfolding Its Compositional Processes.- Chapter 9. Iconographical, Liturgical, and Dogmatic Aspects of the Akathistos Hymn in Cyprus.- Chapter 10. From Liturgy to Private Devotion: The Akathistos Hymn in Late Sixteenth-Century Moldavia.- Chapter 11. The Akathistos Aniconically: Meditations on Unsettled Seeing.- Chapter 12. Composition, Mediality, and the Akathistos Narratives.