The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium: Marian Narratives in Texts and Images

doi:10.1017/9781108696791

This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and textual evidence from both Byzantine and Muslim-ruled territories that was intended for a variety of settings and audiences and seeks to explain why Byzantine artisans and writers chose to tell stories about Mary, the Mother of God, in such different ways. Sometimes the variation reflected the theological or narrative purposes of story-tellers; sometimes it expressed their personal spiritual preoccupations. Above all, the variety of aspects that this holy figure assumed in Byzantium reveals her paradoxical theological position as meeting-place and mediator between the divine and created realms. Narrative, whether 'historical', theological, or purely literary, thus played a fundamental role in the development of the Marian cult from Late Antiquity onward.

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The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium
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The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium - Title page
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Marian Narratives in Texts and Images
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Copyright page
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Contents
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Plates
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Figures
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Contributors
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Preface
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
pp 1-14
- By Thomas Arentzen, Mary B. Cunningham
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Part I - Telling Visual Stories
pp 15-148
The Virgin Mary in Art
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1 - Embodied Word
pp 17-43
Telling the Story of Mary in Early Christian Art
- By Maria Lidova
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2 - Female Devotion and Mary’s Motherhood before Iconoclasm
pp 44-61
- By Andrea Olsen Lam
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3 - The Theological Substance of St Anna’s Motherhood in Byzantine Homilies and Art
pp 62-76
- By Eirini Panou
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4 - Krater of Nectar and Altar of the Bread of Life
pp 77-119
The Theotokos as Provider of the Eucharist in Byzantine Culture
- By Maria Evangelatou
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5 - The Virgin at Daphni
pp 120-148
- By Leslie Brubaker
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Part II - Song and Celebration
pp 149-214
Festal Hymnography on the Theotokos
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6 - The Dialogue of Annunciation
pp 151-169
Germanos of Constantinople versus Romanos the Melode
- By Thomas Arentzen
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7 - Singing MaryThe Annunciation and Nativity in Romanos the Melode
pp 170-179
- By Georgia Frank
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8 - Mary and Adam on the Threshold of Lent
pp 180-191
Counterpoint and Intercession in a Kanon for Cheesefare Sunday
- By Derek Krueger
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9 - The Spiritual and Material Temple
pp 192-214
Byzantine Kanon Poetry for the Feast of the Entrance
- By Fr Damaskinos Olkinuora
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Part III - Preaching her Story
pp 215-306
Narrative Discourse in Homiletics
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10 - The Coptic Homily on the Theotokos Attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem
pp 217-234
An Aberrant and Apologetic ‘Life’ of the Virgin from Late Antiquity
- By Stephen J. Shoemaker
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11 - Mary as ‘Scala Caelestis’ in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Italy
pp 235-256
- By Francesca Dell’Acqua
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12 - Christological and Ecclesiological Narratives in Early Eighth-Century Greek Homilies on the Theotokos
pp 257-280
- By fr Evgenios Iverites
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13 - The Homilies of James of Kokkinobaphos in their Twelfth-Century Context
pp 281-306
- By Elizabeth Jeffreys
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Part IV - New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
pp 307-340
Marian Hagiography
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14 - The Life of the Theotokos by Epiphanios of Kallistratos
pp 309-323
A Monastic Approach to an Apocryphal Story
- By Mary B. Cunningham
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15 - The Story of an EditionAntoine Wenger and John Geometres’ Life of the Virgin Mary
pp 324-340
- By fr Maximos Constas
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Afterword
pp 341-348
- By Susan Ashbrook Harvey
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