Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium (eBook, PDF)

Marian Narratives in Texts and Images
Redaktion: Arentzen, Thomas; Cunningham, Mary B.

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Produktbeschreibung

Images and texts tell various stories about the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, reflecting an important cult with strong doctrinal foundations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108756617
• Artikelnr.: 70913217

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Thomas Arentzen and Mary B. Cunningham; Part I. Telling Visual
Stories: The Virgin Mary in Art: 1. Embodied word: telling the story of
Mary in early Christian art Maria Lidova; 2. Female devotion and Mary's
motherhood before iconoclasm Andrea Olsen Lam; 3. The theological substance
of St Anne's motherhood in Byzantine homilies and art Eirini Panou; 4.
Krater of nectar and altar of the Bread of Life: the Theotokos as provider
of the Eucharist in Byzantine culture Maria Evangelatou; 5. The Virgin at
Daphni Leslie Brubaker; Part II. Song and Celebration: Festal Hymnography
on the Theotokos: 6. The dialogue of Annunciation: Germanos of
Constantinople versus Romanos the Melode Thomas Arentzen; 7. Singing Mary:
the Annunciation and Nativity in Romanos the Melode Georgia Frank; 8. Mary
and Adam on the threshold of Lent: counterpoint and intercession in a Kanon
for Cheesefare Sunday Derek Krueger; 9. The spiritual and material temple:
Byzantine Kanon poetry for the Feast of the Entrance Damaskinos Olkinuora;
Part III. Preaching Her Story: Narrative Discourse in Homiletics: 10. 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; 11. Mary as 'scala caelestis' in eighth- and ninth-century Italy
Francesca Dell'Acqua; 12. Christological and ecclesiological narratives in
early eighth-century Greek homilies on the Theotokos Evgenios Iverites; 13.
The homilies of James of Kokkinobaphos in their twelfth-century context
Elizabeth Jeffreys; Part IV. New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period:
Marian Hagiography: 14. The life of the Theotokos by Epiphanios of
Kallistratos: a monastic approach to an apocryphal story Mary B.
Cunningham; 15. The story of an edition: Antoine Wenger and John Geometres'
Life of the Virgin Mary Maximos Constas; Afterword Susan Ashbrook Harvey.