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 InfoFarnham, Surrey, England : ASHGATE, [2011]
Descriptionxxii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subjects

SeriesBirmingham 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010047492
ISBN9780754662662 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0754662667 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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