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Author(s): Leslie Brubaker (editor), Mary B. Cunningham (editor)
ISBN(s): 9780754662662, 0754662667
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Year: 2011
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ISBN 10: 1351891979

ISBN 13: 9781351891974

Author:  Leslie Brubaker 

The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies) 1st Edition: 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.

 

The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies) 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction

  • The Mother of God in Byzantium: Relics, Icons, Texts

Section I – The Early Cult of the Virgin Mary: Pilgrimage, Miracles, Art, and Texts

  1. The Initial Tradition of the Theotokos at the Kathisma: Earliest Celebrations and the Calendar
  2. Mary at the Threshold: The Mother of God as Guardian in Seventh-Century Palestinian Miracle Accounts
  3. Body, Clothing, Metaphor: The Virgin in Early Byzantine Art
  4. A Mother’s Passion: Mary at the Crucifixion and Resurrection in the Earliest Life of the Virgin and its Influence on George of Nikomedeia’s Passion Homilies
  5. Portrayals of Mary in Greek Homiletic Literature (6th–7th centuries)

Section II – Epithets and Typology for Mary, the Theotokos

6. Wisdom Imagery and the Mother of God
7. Epithets of the Theotokos in the Akathistos Hymn
8. Melkite Syriac Hymns to the Mother of God (9th–11th centuries): Manuscripts, Language and Imagery
9. Depicting the Salvation: Typological Images of Mary in the Kokkinobaphos Manuscripts

Section III – The Mother of God in the Middle Byzantine Homiletic Tradition

10. John of Damascus on the Mother of God as a Link Between Humanity and God
11. The Use of the Protevangelion of James in Eighth-Century Homilies on the Mother of God
12. Emotion and the Senses in Marian Homilies of the Middle Byzantine Period

Section IV – Later Developments in the Marian Cult: Popular Devotion, Liturgy, and Artistic Expression

13. Apocalyptic Panagia: Some Byways of Marian Revelation in Byzantium
14. Making the Most of Mary: The Cult of the Virgin in the Chalkoprateia from Late Antiquity to the Tenth Century
15. The Service of the Virgin’s Lament Revisited
16. Miraculous Icons: Medium, Imagination, and Presence

Conclusion

  • Not the Theotokos Again?

 

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