The reception of the Virgin in Byzantium : Marian narratives in texts and images /

"This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and textual evidence from both Byzantine and Muslim-ruled territories that was intended for a...

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Corporate Author: International Patristic Conference
Other Authors: Arentzen, Thomas, 1976- (Editor), Cunningham, Mary (Lecturer in historical theology and orthodox christian studies) (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Created: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > Byzantine Empire.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > In literature.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Art.
Byzantine literature > History and criticism.
Art, Byzantine > Themes, motives.
Byzantine Empire > Religious life and customs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Embodied word : telling the story of Mary in early Christian art / Maria Lidova
  • Female devotion and Mary's motherhood before iconoclasm / Andrea Olsen Lam
  • The theological substance of St. Anne's motherhood in Byzantine homilies and art / Eirini Panou
  • Krater of nectar and altar of the bread of life : the Theotokos as provider of the Eucharist in Byzantine culture / Maria Evangelatou
  • The virgin at Daphni / Leslie Brubaker
  • The dialogue of annunciation : Germanos of Constantinople versus Romanos the Melode / Thomas Arentzen
  • Singing Mary : the annunciation and nativity in Romanos the Melode / Georgia Frank
  • Mary and Adam on the threshold of Lent : counterpoint and intercession in a kanon for cheesefare Sunday / Derek Krueger
  • The spiritual and material temple : Byzantine kanon poetry for the feast of the entrance / Fr. Damaskinos Olkinuora
  • The Coptic homily on the Theotokos attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem : an aberrant and apologetic "life" of the virgin from late antiquity / Stephen J. Shoemaker
  • Mary as "scala caelestis" in eighth- and ninth-century Italy / Francesca Dell'Acqua
  • Christological and ecclesiological narratives in early eighth-century Greek homilies on the Theotokos / Fr. Evgenios Iverites
  • The homilies of James of Kokkinobaphos in their twelfth-century context / Elizabeth Jeffreys
  • The life of the Theotokos by Epiphanios of Kallistratos : a monastic approach to an apocryphal story / Mary B. Cunningham
  • The story of an edition : Antoine Wenger and John Geometres' life of the Virgin Mary / Fr. Maximos Constas
  • Afterword / Susan Ashbrook Harvey.

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