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- 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
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- 10 The Coptic Homily on the Theotokos Attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem
- 11 Mary as ‘Scala Caelestis’ in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Italy
- 12 Christological and Ecclesiological Narratives in Early Eighth-Century Greek Homilies on the Theotokos
- 13 The Homilies of James of Kokkinobaphos in their Twelfth-Century Context
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
10 - The Coptic Homily on the Theotokos Attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem
An Aberrant and Apologetic ‘Life’ of the Virgin from Late Antiquity
from Part III - Preaching her Story
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2019
- 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
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- 10 The Coptic Homily on the Theotokos Attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem
- 11 Mary as ‘Scala Caelestis’ in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Italy
- 12 Christological and Ecclesiological Narratives in Early Eighth-Century Greek Homilies on the Theotokos
- 13 The Homilies of James of Kokkinobaphos in their Twelfth-Century Context
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
Although this text is regularly classed among the early narratives of Mary’s dormition and assumption, the Coptic Homily on the Theotokos attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem is actually an early example of a Life, or vita, of the Virgin Mary, and indeed, it is one of the earliest such texts to survive.
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- The Reception of the Virgin in ByzantiumMarian Narratives in Texts and Images, pp. 217 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019