Christus Saltans as Dionysios and David : The Dance of the Savior in its Late-Antique Cultural Context

Autor:	Paul Dilley
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Literature Literature and Literary Theory Dance Antique business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies Early Christianity Art Christianity Modern dance Heresy Liturgy business Cult media_common
Zdroj:	Apocrypha. 24:237-253
ISSN:	2034-6468 1155-3316
DOI:	10.1484/j.apocra.1.103504
Popis:	In this article, I situate the Dance of the Savior within its Late Antique cultural context, beyond its place in the history of doctrine. In particular, I outline early Christian forms of dance, not as a marker of heresy, but as an important aspect of post-Constantinian liturgy. While some patristic authors criticized dance as a pagan or Jewish practice, my study is structured around the Christian appropriation of Dionysiac and Davidic imagery, which is found especially in references to dance at festival celebrations (including the cult of martyrs) and imperial rituals (such as the return of the Cross to Jerusalem under Heraclius), respectively. The Dance of the Savior should therefore not be viewed as an “apocryphon,” but rather a text closely related to various public rituals of Late-Antique Christianity.
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