The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and ImagesLeslie Brubaker, Mary B. Cunningham The papers presented here, by an international cast of scholars, consider the development and transformation of the cult of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) in Byzantium from approximately the fourth through the twelfth centuries. |
Contents
Relics Icons Texts | 1 |
The Mother of God as Guardian | 31 |
The Virgin in Early Byzantine | 39 |
Mary at the Crucifixion and Resurrection | 47 |
Portrayals of Mary in Greek Homiletic Literature 6th7th | 69 |
Wisdom Imagery and the Mother of | 91 |
Epithets of the Theotokos in the Akathistos Hymn | 109 |
Typological Images of Mary | 133 |
John of Damascus on the Mother of God as a Link Between | 153 |
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