Aspects of Everyday Life
Description
Exhibition Space Text DescriptionThe social organization of the Orthodox Christians who lived in Greek lands and Asia Minor between 1453 and 1830 was based on the notion of “community”. Within those small communities people’s status differed, depending on their ethnic origins, their occupation and their economic situation. Regardless of whether they were under Latin or Ottoman rule, the Orthodox populations experienced shared traditions of faith and ways of thinking. The Church was a determining factor in their everyday experience. They drew from it the opinions on which they based their interpretation of social reality and the world, while at the same time deriving other views from a more ancient, pagan past. All this went to make up a thought-world which remained fundamentally medieval until at least the 18th c.
Exhibits
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Paper construction with information for the move of the sun and the moon
Manuscripts, Codices, Early Printed Books, Engravings and Drawings Paper construction with information for the move of the sun and the moon during the year. Two rotating card discs have been a...
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The seven Ages of Man
Icons and Wood-Carvings The scene is allegorical. The theme is the meaning of the time from the birth to the death of every man: at the outer periphe...
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