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Dr Andrew Mellas serves as an Honorary Associate at the Medieval and Early Modern Centre, The University of Sydney, specializing in Byzantine religious and cultural history. His work centers on the emotional dimensions of liturgical practices within the Byzantine Empire.
Mellas' research focuses on Byzantine Studies, Liturgical Studies, and the History of Emotions, with particular expertise in hymnography, compunction (sorrow for sin), and patristic literature. He investigates how emotions were ritualized in Byzantine worship through hymns by figures like St. Romanos the Melodist and Andrew of Crete, analyzing textual, theological, and performative aspects of religious experience.
His 2020 monographs 'Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: Compunction and Hymnody' (Cambridge University Press) and 'Hymns of Repentance: St Romanos the Melodist' (SVS Press) represent major contributions to understanding Byzantine emotional theology. Mellas' publications consistently explore intersections of liturgy, poetry, and psychological states in medieval Eastern Christianity, with emphasis on repentance, beauty, and mystical vision.
