ABSTRACT
Delineated by architectural frames, the body of the sacred in Byzantium constituted a kind of “being-place” where the body of sacred figures and their related holy spaces remained closely interconnected. Bogdanović elucidates the meaning of framing such “being-places” in the monastery of Hosios Loukas by comparing current theoretical discussions with those coming from Byzantine theological texts. The Byzantines perceived canopies as architectural and conceptual frames that provided both divine and earthly entities with their appropriate properties, while preserving their true natures as divine or earthly, even if seemingly overlapping within the liminal space of the frame and the framed.
