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Item Number: 111144
Title: The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium : Texts and Images
Author: Brubaker, Leslie (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780754662662
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 25cm., hardcover, 306pp., 32 color, 9 b&w illus. Contents: Preface, Leslie Brubaker; Introduction, Averil Cameron; Section I The Early Cult of the Virgin Mary : Pilgrimage, Miracles, Art and Texts: The initial tradition of the Theotokos at the site of the Kathisma: earliest celebrations and the calendar, Rina Avner; Mary at the threshold: the Mother of God as guardian in 7th-century Palestinian miracle accounts, Derek Krueger; Body, clothing and metaphor: the Virgin in early Byzantine art, Henry Maguire; A mother's passion: Mary's role in the crucifixion and resurrection in the earliest life of the Virgin and its influence on George of Nikomedeia's passion homilies, Stephen Shoemaker; Portrayals of Mary in Greek homiletic literature (6th–7th centuries), Pauline Allen. Section II Epithets and Typology for Mary, the Theotokos: Wisdom imagery and the Mother of God, Margaret Barker; Epithets in the Akathistos hymn, Leena Mari Peltomaa; Depicting the salvation: typological images of Mary in the Kokkinobaphos manuscripts, Kallirroe Linardou. Section III The Mother of God in the Middle Byzantine Homiletic Tradition: 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 8th-century homilies on the Mother of God, Mary B. Cunningham; Emotion and the senses in Marian homilies of the Middle Byzantine period, Niki Tsironis. Section IV Later Developments in the Marian Cult: Popular Devotion, Liturgy and Artistic Expression: Apocalytic Panagia: some theological undersides of Marian devotion, Jane Baun; Making the most of Mary; the Chalkoprateia in the 10th century, Dirk Krausmüller; The canons of the lamenting Virgin revisited, Nancy Ševcenko; Miraculous icons: medium, imagination and presence, Bissera Pentcheva; Conclusion, Margaret Mullett. (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies, 11)
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