The History and Significance of the Byzantine Prothesis Ritual

Fresco of Christ the Amnos (detail), exonarthex of the Theotokos Church, Studenica Monastery, Serbia. Copyright: BLAGO Fund, Inc. Licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0.

Date: Feb 17, 2022 Time: 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Location: Zoom

Nina Glibetić, University of Notre Dame, discusses the history and development of Byzantine Prothesis ritual.

About the Speaker

Nina Glibetić, University of Notre Dame

Nina Glibetić is Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her main research area is Christian liturgy through an interdisciplinary lens, and situated in manuscript studies, theology, Byzantine and Slavic Studies. Dr. Glibetić has lectured internationally and held numerous research appointments including a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study and fellowships at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is concurrently part of an international research team studying the unique corpus of medieval Slavonic manuscripts discovered at St Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai in 1975 through the application of new technologies for deciphering textual sources.