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Byzantine aesthetics - English
URL: http://philosophy.ru/library/bychkov/byz-ae-en.html

Enciclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. M.Kelly. Vol.1. N.Y.-Oxford, 1998. Pp. 321-323. Byzantine aesthetics - one of the trends in medieval aesthetics that has been formed within the Greek-speaking culture of Byzantium (4-15th c.). It is based on the aesthetic ideas of Antiquity (first of all, Neoplatonism) and early Patristics. Early Patristics, in fact, rejects the majority of aesthetic values of the ancient (pagan) world -- the so-called "aesthetics of negation" -- and focuses around spiritual beauty and the ideas of Christian symbolism which just start to take root at that time. B.a. develops in several directions.

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Russian Christian Institute - Russian
URL: http://www.rchgi.spb.ru/his_esd.html

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Программа курса "История эстетических учений". Автор курса: доктор филологических наук, доцент РГПУ им. Герцена Константин Глебович Исупов. Лекции - 42 часа.

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