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The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium - Marian Narratives in Texts and Images (Paperback)
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The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium - Marian Narratives in Texts and Images (Paperback)
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This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns,
sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before
AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and
textual evidence from both Byzantine and Muslim-ruled territories
that was intended for a variety of settings and audiences and seeks
to explain why Byzantine artisans and writers chose to tell stories
about Mary, the Mother of God, in such different ways. Sometimes
the variation reflected the theological or narrative purposes of
story-tellers; sometimes it expressed their personal spiritual
preoccupations. Above all, the variety of aspects that this holy
figure assumed in Byzantium reveals her paradoxical theological
position as meeting-place and mediator between the divine and
created realms. Narrative, whether 'historical', theological, or
purely literary, thus played a fundamental role in the development
of the Marian cult from Late Antiquity onward.
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