The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium : Texts and Images / Edited by Leslie Brubaker and Mary B. Cunningham.
| Other author | Brubaker, Leslie, editor. |
| Other author | Cunningham, Mary (Lecturer in historical theology and Orthodox Christian studies) editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Farnham, Surrey, England : ASHGATE, [2011] |
| Description | xxii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies. ^A1108488 |
| Contents | The Mother of God in Byzantium : relics, icons, texts / Averil Cameron -- The initial tradition of the Theotokos at the Kathisma : earliest celebrations and the calendar / Rina Avner -- Mary at the threshold : the Mother of God as guardian in seventh-century Palestinian miracle accounts / Derek Krueger -- Body, clothing, metaphor : the Virgin in early Byzantine art / Henry Maguire -- A mother's passion : Mary at the crucifixion and resurrection in the earliest Life of the Virgin and its influence on George of Nikomedeia's Passion homilies / Stephen J. Shoemaker -- Portrayals of Mary in Greek homiletic literature (6th-7th centuries) / Pauline Allen -- Wisdom imagery and the Mother of God / Margaret Barker -- Epithets of the Theotokos in the Akathistos hymn / Leena Mari Peltomaa -- Melkite Syriac hymns to the Mother of God (9th-11th centuries) : manuscripts, language and imagery / Natalia Smelova -- Depicting the salvation : typological images of Mary in the Kokkinobaphos manuscripts / Kallirroe Linardou -- John of Damascus on the Mother of God as a link between humanity and God / Andrew Louth -- The use of the Protevangelion of James in eighth-century homilies on the Mother of God / Mary B. Cunningham -- Emotion and the senses in Marian homilies of the Middle Byzantine period / Niki Tsironis -- Apocalyptic Panagia : some byways of Marian revelation in Byzantium / Jane Baun -- Making the most of Mary : the cult of the Virgin in the Chalkoprateia from late antiquity to the tenth century / Dirk Krausmüller -- The service of the Virgin's lament revisited / Nancy P. Ševčenko -- Miraculous icons : medium, imagination, and presence / Bissera V. Pentcheva -- Not the Theotokos again? / Margaret Mullett. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010047492 |
| ISBN | 9780754662662 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0754662667 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | BT652.B99 C85 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |