Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Marian Stories; What is Narrative?; This Book; Part I Telling Visual Stories: The Virgin Mary in Art; 1 Embodied Word: Telling the Story of Mary in Early Christian Art; Mary -- What's in a Name?; Gospel Narratives; Infancy and Marian Cycles in Early Christian Art; Conclusion; 2 Female Devotion and Mary's Motherhood before Iconoclasm; Marian Images and Monastic Education; The Adana Medallions; The Schmidt Medallion
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Images and texts tell various stories about the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, reflecting an important cult with strong doctrinal foundations.
Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium : Marian Narratives in Texts and Images.
9781108476287
Marian narratives in texts and images
Mary
Mary,Devotion to-- Byzantine Empire.
Mary,In literature.
Mary
Art, Byzantine-- Themes, motives.
Byzantine literature-- History and criticism.
Art, Byzantine-- Themes, motives.
Byzantine literature.
Devotion.
Literature.
Byzantine Empire, Religious life and customs.
Byzantine Empire.
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232
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9109495
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BT652
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B99
R43
2019
Arentzen, Thomas,1976-
Cunningham, Mary, (Lecturer in historical theology and orthodox christian studies)
International Patristic Conference(17th :2015 :, Oxford, England)