Byzantine Tree Life: Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination

by Virginia Burrus, Glenn Peers, Thomas Arentzen

This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture's deep involvement--and even fascination--with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries of how communicative trees may be, and how they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030759016
• ISBN13: 9783030759018
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"