Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, England : ASHGATE, [2011]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brubaker, Leslie
• Cunningham, Mary

Description

xxii, 306 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Series Statement

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

Uniform Title

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies.

Subjects

• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > Art > Congresses
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > Byzantine Empire > Congresses
• Byzantine Empire > Religious life and customs > Congresses
• Art, Byzantine > Themes, motives

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFF 17-119

ISBN

• 9780754662662
• 0754662667

LCCN

2010047492

OCLC

683247711

Title

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

Imprint

Farnham, Surrey, England : ASHGATE, [2011]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Brubaker, Leslie, editor.

Cunningham, Mary, editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 17-119