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Author: Strezova, Anita, author.Title: Hesychasm and art: the appearance of new Iconographic trends in Byzantine and Slavic lands in the 14th and 15th centuries / Anita Strezova.ISBN:

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The subchapter ‘Doctrinal Positions of Barlaam of Calabria and Gregory Palamas’ is republished here with permission of St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press. An earlier version appears under the heading ‘Doctrinal Positions of Barlaam of Calabria and Gregory Palamas during Byzantine Hesychast Controversy’ in St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly, vol. 2 (2014).

Cover photo: Christ Pantokrator (surrounded by saints and signs of the zodiac), c. 1347-1349, fresco, the central cupola, painted by Michael of Lesnovo, Church of St Archangel Gabriel, Monastery of Lesnovo, Probistip (Macedonia).

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