The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and ImagesLeslie Brubaker, Mary B. Cunningham This volume, on the cult of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) in Byzantium, focuses on textual and historical aspects of the subject, thus complementing previous work which has centred more on the cult of images of the Mother of God. The papers presented here, by an international team of scholars, consider the development and transformation of the cult from approximately the fourth through the twelfth centuries. The volume opens with discussion of the origins of the cult, and its Near Eastern manifestations, including the archaeological site of the Kathisma church in Palestine, which represents the earliest Marian shrine in the Holy Land, and Syriac poetic treatment of the Virgin. The principal focus, however, is on the 8th and 9th centuries in Byzantium, as a critical period when Christian attitudes toward the Virgin and her veneration were transformed. The book re-examines the relationship between icons, relics and the Virgin, asking whether increasing devotion to these holy objects or figures was related in any way. Some contributions consider the location of relics and later, icons, in Constantinople and other centres of Marian devotion; others explore gender issues, such as the significance of the Virgin's feminine qualities, and whether women and men identified with her equally as a holy figure. The aim of this volume is to build on recent work on the cult of the Virgin Mary in Byzantium and to explore areas that have not yet been studied. The rationale is critical and historical, using literary, artistic, and archaeological sources to evaluate her role in the development of the Byzantine understanding of the ways in which God interacts with creation by means of icons, relics, and the Theotokos. |
Contents
The Mother of God as Guardian in SeventhCentury | |
The Virgin in Early Byzantine | |
Mary at the Crucifixion and Resurrection in the Earliest | |
Portrayals of Mary in Greek Homiletic Literature 6th7th centuries | |
Wisdom Imagery and the Mother of | 6 |
John of Damascus on the Mother of God as a Link Between Humanity and | 35 |
The Use of the Protevangelion of James in EighthCentury Homilies on | 44 |
Emotion and the Senses in Marian Homilies of the Middle Byzantine period | 69 |
Some Byways of Marian Revelation in Byzantium | 79 |
The Cult of the Virgin in the Chalkoprateia from | 28 |
The Service of the Virgins Lament Revisited | 112 |
Medium Imagination and Presence | 14 |
Conclusion Not the Theotokos Again? | 22 |
Epithets of the Theotokos in the Akathistos Hymn | 28 |
Typological Images of Mary in the Kokkinobaphos | 16 |
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Akathistos Hymn Andrew of Crete Anna Annunciation apocryphal Blachernai Byzantine art Byzantium celebrated Chalkoprateia Christ Christian church cols commemoration compline Conception cult Cunningham divine Dmitrievskij Dormition dormitionem emotion emperor epithets Euboia Evergetis George of Nikomedeia Georgian Germanos of Constantinople Greek H in Mateos holy homiletic homilies Hypapante ibid icon Ikos Incarnation Jerusalem John of Damascus kanon Kathisma Kokkinobaphos lament Late Antiquity liturgical Lord manuscripts Marian feasts Mary’s Maximos the Confessor medieval Middle Byzantine miracle monastery Mother Mother of God narrative Nativity Octoechos Opisanie Paris patriarch Patristic Peltomaa Pentcheva Plate Poreč Presentation Protevangelion Protevangelion of James relic saints sermon seventh century Sinai sixth century Source Studies Syriac temple Testament Theodore theological theotokia Theotokos tomb tradition trans translation Troparion Tsironis Typikon typology Vassilaki veneration Virgin Mary vision Weyl Carr Wider Than Heaven ἐν τῆς τοῦ τῶν χαῖρε