The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400–1000
Hymns, Homilies and Hagiography
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- Author: Mary B. Cunningham, University of Nottingham
- Date Published: September 2022
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009327251
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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.
Read more- Provides an historical overview of the development of the cult of the Virgin Mary in Byzantium between c.400 and 1000
- Adopts a literary approach to the subject, choosing three genres (homiletics, hymnography, and hagiography) which offer separate – but overlapping – views of the Virgin Mary
- Examines the significance of the Virgin Mary from the point of view of gender
- This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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- Date Published: September 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009327251
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Praise of Mary in song: the early hymnography
2. From Theotokos to Intercessor: the early homiletic witness (ca. 400 – 600)
3. Panegyrics and supplication: homilies from ca. 600 – 1000
4. Theology in verse: Middle Byzantine hymnography
5. Narratives about the Panagia: miracle stories, hagiography and apocalypses.
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