Book contents
- 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
3 - The Theological Substance of St Anna’s Motherhood in Byzantine Homilies and Art
from Part I - Telling Visual Stories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2019
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Book contents
- 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 reception of the narrative of the Virgin Mary’s childhood in the Middle Byzantine period, as recorded in the Protevangelium of James, has only recently begun to attract scholarly attention.
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- The Reception of the Virgin in ByzantiumMarian Narratives in Texts and Images, pp. 62 - 76Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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