Book contents
- 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
- 1 Embodied Word
- 2 Female Devotion and Mary’s Motherhood before Iconoclasm
- 3 The Theological Substance of St Anna’s Motherhood in Byzantine Homilies and Art
- 4 Krater of Nectar and Altar of the Bread of Life
- 5 The Virgin at Daphni
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
2 - Female Devotion and Mary’s Motherhood before Iconoclasm
from Part I - Telling Visual Stories
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
- 1 Embodied Word
- 2 Female Devotion and Mary’s Motherhood before Iconoclasm
- 3 The Theological Substance of St Anna’s Motherhood in Byzantine Homilies and Art
- 4 Krater of Nectar and Altar of the Bread of Life
- 5 The Virgin at Daphni
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
Marian narrative scenes are depicted in various monumental and small-scale examples before Iconoclasm, in both public and private contexts.
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- The Reception of the Virgin in ByzantiumMarian Narratives in Texts and Images, pp. 44 - 61Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019