Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding
a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely
uniform in its manifestations and to a great extent frightening,
coercive and paralysing. It moves beyond a purely didactic
understanding of the Byzantine image of the Last Judgement, as a
visual eschatological text to be 'read' and learned from, and
proposes instead an appreciation of each unique image as a dynamic
site to be experienced. Paintings, icons and mosaics from the tenth
to the fourteenth century, from inside and outside of the Byzantine
Empire, are placed within their specific socio-historical milieus,
their immediate decorative programmes and their architectural
contexts to demonstrate that each unique image constituted a
carefully orchestrated and immersive experience of judgement. Each
case study outlines the differences that exist in reality between
these images that are often subsumed under one iconographic label,
making a case against condensing dynamic, lived images into
apparently static pictorial 'types'. Images of the Last Judgement
needed the body, mind and memory of the viewer for the creation of
meaning, and so the experience of these images was unavoidably
spatial, gendered, corporeal, mnemonic, emotional, rhetorical and
most often liturgical. Unpacking Byzantine images of judgement in
light of these various facets of experience for the first time
helps to elucidate the interaction of past individuals with the
image, and the ways in which such encounters were intended to
benefit the communities that made and lived alongside them.
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