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• Title:The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium : Texts and Images / Edited by Leslie Brubaker and Mary B. Cunningham.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Brubaker, Leslie, 1951- editor of compilation.
  Cunningham, Mary (Mary B.), editor of compilation.
  
• Published/Created:Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2011], ©2011.
  

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  • Call Number: BT652.B99 C85 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.
  Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Art--Congresses.
  Art, Byzantine--Themes, motives.
  Byzantine Empire--Religious life and customs--Congresses.
  
• Description:xxii, 306 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
  
• Series:Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies.
  
• Notes:Series statement from book jacket.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780754662662 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  0754662667 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Section I Early Cult of the Virgin Mary: Pilgrimage, Miracles, Art and Texts
  1. Initial Tradition of the Theotokos at the Kathisma: Earliest Celebrations and the Calendar / Rina Avner
  2. Mary at the Threshold: The Mother of God as Guardian in Seventh-Century Palestinian Miracle Accounts / Derek Krueger
  3. Body, Clothing, Metaphor: The Virgin in Early Byzantine Art / Henry Maguire
  4. 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 / Stephen J. Shoemaker
  5. Portrayals of Mary in Greek Homiletic Literature (6th-7th centuries) / Pauline Allen
  Section II Epithets and Typology for Mary, the Theotokos
  6. Wisdom Imagery and the Mother of God / Margaret Barker
  7. Epithets of the Theotokos in the Akathistos Hymn / Leena Mari Peltomaa
  8. Melkite Syriac Hymns to the Mother of God (9th-11th centuries): Manuscripts, Language and Imagery / Natalia Smelova
  9. Depicting the Salvation: Typological Images of Mary in the Kokkinobaphos Manuscripts / Kallirroe Linardou
  Section III 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 / Andrew Louth
  11. Use of the Protevangelion of James in Eighth-Century Homilies on the Mother of God / Mary B. Cunningham
  12. Emotion and the Senses in Marian Homilies of the Middle Byzantine period / Niki Tsironis
  Section IV Later Developments in the Marian Cult: Popular Devotion, Liturgy and Artistic Expression
  13. Apocalyptic Panagia: Some Byways of Marian Revelation in Byzantium / Jane Baun
  14. Making the Most of Mary: The Cult of the Virgin in the Chalkoprateia from Late Antiquity to the Tenth Century / Dirk Krausmuller
  15. Service of the Virgin's Lament Revisited / Nancy P. Sevcenko
  16. Miraculous Icons: Medium, Imagination, and Presence / Bissera V. Pentcheva.