The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Plates

pp vii-viii

Figures

pp ix-xiii

Contributors

pp xiv-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xvii

Abbreviations

pp xviii-xx

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Telling Visual Stories

pp 15-148

1 - Embodied Word

pp 17-43

2 - Female Devotion and Mary’s Motherhood before Iconoclasm

pp 44-61

3 - The Theological Substance of St Anna’s Motherhood in Byzantine Homilies and Art

pp 62-76

4 - Krater of Nectar and Altar of the Bread of Life

pp 77-119

5 - The Virgin at Daphni

pp 120-148

Part II - Song and Celebration

pp 149-214

6 - The Dialogue of Annunciation

pp 151-169

7 - Singing MaryThe Annunciation and Nativity in Romanos the Melode

pp 170-179

8 - Mary and Adam on the Threshold of Lent

pp 180-191

9 - The Spiritual and Material Temple

pp 192-214

Part III - Preaching her Story

pp 215-306

10 - The Coptic Homily on the Theotokos Attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem

pp 217-234

11 - Mary as ‘Scala Caelestis’ in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Italy

pp 235-256

12 - Christological and Ecclesiological Narratives in Early Eighth-Century Greek Homilies on the Theotokos

pp 257-280

13 - The Homilies of James of Kokkinobaphos in their Twelfth-Century Context

pp 281-306

Part IV - New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period

pp 307-340

14 - The Life of the Theotokos by Epiphanios of Kallistratos

pp 309-323

15 - The Story of an EditionAntoine Wenger and John Geometres’ Life of the Virgin Mary

pp 324-340

Afterword

pp 341-348