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The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium : Texts and Images / Edited by Leslie Brubaker and Mary B. Cunningham.

Contributor(s): Brubaker, Leslie | Cunningham, Mary
Material type: TextTextSeries: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies: Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xxii, 306 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780754662662 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0754662667 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to -- Byzantine Empire -- Congresses | Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Art -- Congresses | Byzantine Empire -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses | Art, Byzantine -- Themes, motivesDDC classification: 232.91 LOC classification: BT652.B99 | C85 2011Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction - 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 Humns 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 -- Conclusion : Not the Theotokos Again? / Margaret Mullet.

Series statement from book jacket.

"The papers in this volume were mostly delivered at a conference held in August 2006, as the concluding segment of a research project sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)...." -- Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction - 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 Humns 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 -- Conclusion : Not the Theotokos Again? / Margaret Mullet.

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