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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Images and texts tell various stories about the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, reflecting an important cult with strong doctrinal foundations.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium : Marian Narratives in Texts and Images.
International Standard Book Number
9781108476287
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Marian narratives in texts and images
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mary
Mary,Devotion to-- Byzantine Empire.
Mary,In literature.
Mary
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Art, Byzantine-- Themes, motives.
Byzantine literature-- History and criticism.
Art, Byzantine-- Themes, motives.
Byzantine literature.
Devotion.
Literature.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Byzantine Empire, Religious life and customs.
Byzantine Empire.
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
232
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9109495
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
BT652
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B99
Book number
R43
2019
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Arentzen, Thomas,1976-
Cunningham, Mary, (Lecturer in historical theology and orthodox christian studies)
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
International Patristic Conference(17th :2015 :, Oxford, England)