The Virgin Mary In Byzantium C400 1000
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Author | : Mary B. Cunningham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2022-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009327232 |
The Virgin Mary assumed a position of central importance in Byzantium. This major and authoritative study examines her portrayal in liturgical texts during the first six centuries of Byzantine history. Focusing on three main literary genres that celebrated this holy figure, it highlights the ways in which writers adapted their messages for different audiences. Mary is portrayed variously as defender of the imperial city, Constantinople, virginal Mother of God, and ascetic disciple of Christ. Preachers, hymnographers, and hagiographers used rhetoric to enhance Mary's powerful status in Eastern Christian society, depicting her as virgin and mother, warrior and ascetic, human and semi-divine being. Their paradoxical statements were based on the fundamental mystery that Mary embodied: she was the mother of Christ, the Word of God, who provided him with the human nature that he assumed in his incarnation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Mary B Cunningham |
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Release | : 2021-11 |
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ISBN | : 9781108990530 |
Author | : Thomas Arentzen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108476287 |
Images and texts tell various stories about the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, reflecting an important cult with strong doctrinal foundations.
Author | : Sarah Potter Woodson |
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Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Maria Vassilaki |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351928759 |
Fully illustrated in colour and black and white, Images of the Mother of God complements the successful exhibition catalogue of the 'Mother of God' exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens. It brings together the work of leading international authorities and younger scholars to provide a wide-ranging survey of how the Theotokos was perceived in the Byzantine world. It embraces the disciplines of art historians, archaeologists, traditional and feminist historians, as well as theologians, philologists and social anthropologists. Images of the Mother of God will appeal not just to those interested in Byzantine art and culture, but also to scholars of Western Europe in the Middle Ages who are looking for comparative materials in their own work.
Author | : Bissera V. Pentcheva |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780271048161 |
Pentcheva demonstrates that a fundamental shift in the Byzantine cult from relics to icons, took place during the late tenth century. Centered upon fundamental questions of art, religion, and politics, Icons and Power makes a vital contribution to the entire field of medieval studies.
Author | : Leslie Brubaker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
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ISBN | : 9781138270909 |
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.
Author | : Susan Sinclair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art, Byzantine |
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Author | : Leena Mari Peltomaa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Art, Byzantine |
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The present book is dedicated to one main aspect of the Marian cult: it investigates the historical process that made Mary, mother of Jesus, the most prominent intercessor across the Byzantine Empire at the end of Iconoclasm (843). The study touches religious and social issues, it refers only to contemporary ideas and sources and distinguishes itself consciously from later mariological concepts.
Author | : Maria Vasilakē |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
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A complete survey of the representation of the Virgin in Byzantine art through a wide selection of works in all media. Icons, illuminated manuscripts, ivories, metalworks, marble reliefs and textiles, dating from the 6th to the 14th century coming from the Benaki Museum in Athens and from many other major public and private collections worldwide. This is the most original and up-to-date publication on the subject, in which art-historical, historical, iconographic and theological issues are brought together for the first time in an effort to cover all aspects of the cult and representation of the Mother of God.