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- The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium
- The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Telling Visual Stories
- 1 Embodied Word
- 2 Female Devotion and Mary’s Motherhood before Iconoclasm
- 3 The Theological Substance of St Anna’s Motherhood in Byzantine Homilies and Art
- 4 Krater of Nectar and Altar of the Bread of Life
- 5 The Virgin at Daphni
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
1 - Embodied Word
Telling the Story of Mary in Early Christian Art
from Part I - Telling Visual Stories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2019
- The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium
- The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Telling Visual Stories
- 1 Embodied Word
- 2 Female Devotion and Mary’s Motherhood before Iconoclasm
- 3 The Theological Substance of St Anna’s Motherhood in Byzantine Homilies and Art
- 4 Krater of Nectar and Altar of the Bread of Life
- 5 The Virgin at Daphni
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
The veneration of the Mother of God and the imagery dedicated to her developed gradually in the Early Christian Church. Scholars still struggle to single out the earliest and most relevant evidence for the cult of the Virgin and to determine the starting point of devotion that is specifically Marian in focus.
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- The Reception of the Virgin in ByzantiumMarian Narratives in Texts and Images, pp. 17 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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