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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
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
Introduction
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
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
On a spring day in the middle of the twentieth century, the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf visited the holy fountain (hagiasma) of the Virgin in the Blachernai church in modern Istanbul.
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- The Reception of the Virgin in ByzantiumMarian Narratives in Texts and Images, pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019