
Georgia Frank (ed.)
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Published online:
21 May 2020
Published in print:
05 November 2019
Online ISBN:
9780823288908
Print ISBN:
9780823287024
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Romanos’s Kontakia Romanos’s Kontakia
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Singing the Nativity Singing the Nativity
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Collective Song in Lent: The Ninevites and Noah Collective Song in Lent: The Ninevites and Noah
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Collective Song During Holy Week Collective Song During Holy Week
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From Easter to Pentecost From Easter to Pentecost
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Emotional Contagion and Collective Song Emotional Contagion and Collective Song
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
Crowds and Collective Affect in Romanos’s Biblical Retellings
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Pages
169–190
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Published:November 2019
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Frank, Georgia, 'Crowds and Collective Affect in Romanos’s Biblical Retellings', in Georgia Frank, Susan Holman, and Andrew Jacobs (eds), The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity (New York, NY , 2019; online edn, Fordham Scholarship Online, 21 May 2020), https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823287024.003.0009, accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines the role of internal groupings within the biblical episodes retold in Romanos the Melodist’s (ca. 555) hymns (or, kontakia). Performed for liturgical festivals, these sung sermons allowed congregations to sing along with various biblical groups, whether the three youths in the furnace, the magi, Herod’s army, the Ninevites, or Jesus’s disciples. Shaped by recent work on the collective voices in Greek tragedy, this essay considers how groups allowed congregations to share in the emotional world of the biblical characters, sing for those silenced by ignorance or cowardice, and sing to repent with sinners and repudiate villains.
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Theology
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