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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
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- 14 The Life of the Theotokos by Epiphanios of Kallistratos
- 15 The Story of an EditionAntoine Wenger and John Geometres’ Life of the Virgin Mary
- Afterword
- Index
14 - The Life of the Theotokos by Epiphanios of Kallistratos
A Monastic Approach to an Apocryphal Story
from Part IV - New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
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
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- 14 The Life of the Theotokos by Epiphanios of Kallistratos
- 15 The Story of an EditionAntoine Wenger and John Geometres’ Life of the Virgin Mary
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
Epiphanios, who belonged to the Kallistratos monastery in Constantinople in the late eighth or early ninth century, conceived his Life of the Theotokos as a new literary venture.
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- The Reception of the Virgin in ByzantiumMarian Narratives in Texts and Images, pp. 309 - 323Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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