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Author : Mary B Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1108990533
Author : Mary B. Cunningham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009327237
The Virgin Mary assumed a position of central importance in Byzantium. This major and authoritative study examines her portrayal in liturgical texts during the first six centuries of Byzantine history. Focusing on three main literary genres that celebrated this holy figure, it highlights the ways in which writers adapted their messages for different audiences. Mary is portrayed variously as defender of the imperial city, Constantinople, virginal Mother of God, and ascetic disciple of Christ. Preachers, hymnographers, and hagiographers used rhetoric to enhance Mary's powerful status in Eastern Christian society, depicting her as virgin and mother, warrior and ascetic, human and semi-divine being. Their paradoxical statements were based on the fundamental mystery that Mary embodied: she was the mother of Christ, the Word of God, who provided him with the human nature that he assumed in his incarnation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Mary Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 1009327240
The Virgin Mary assumed a position of central importance in Byzantium. This major and authoritative study examines her portrayal in liturgical texts during the first six centuries of Byzantine history. Focusing on three main literary genres that celebrated this holy figure, it highlights the ways in which writers adapted their messages for different audiences. Mary is portrayed variously as defender of the imperial city, Constantinople, virginal Mother of God, and ascetic disciple of Christ. Preachers, hymnographers, and hagiographers used rhetoric to enhance Mary's powerful status in Eastern Christian society, depicting her as virgin and mother, warrior and ascetic, human and semi-divine being. Their paradoxical statements were based on the fundamental mystery that Mary embodied: she was the mother of Christ, the Word of God, who provided him with the human nature that he assumed in his incarnation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : MARY B. CUNNINGHAM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2025-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1835537987
Epiphanios the Monk's Lives of the Virgin Mary and of the apostle Andrew offer original interpretations of early Christian legends surrounding both holy figures. This volume offers the first English translation and commentary of both texts, which reflect the theological and spiritual controversies of early ninth-century Byzantium.
Author : Carl Dixon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004517080
In a searching challenge to the paradigm of medieval Christian dualism, this study reenvisions the Paulicians as largely conventional Christians engendered by complex socio-religious forces in the borderlands of Armenia and Asia Minor.
Author : Leslie Brubaker,Mary B. Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351891974
This volume, on the cult of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) in Byzantium, focuses on textual and historical aspects of the subject, thus complementing previous work which has centred more on the cult of images of the Mother of God. The papers presented here, by an international team of scholars, consider the development and transformation of the cult from approximately the fourth through the twelfth centuries. The volume opens with discussion of the origins of the cult, and its Near Eastern manifestations, including the archaeological site of the Kathisma church in Palestine, which represents the earliest Marian shrine in the Holy Land, and Syriac poetic treatment of the Virgin. The principal focus, however, is on the 8th and 9th centuries in Byzantium, as a critical period when Christian attitudes toward the Virgin and her veneration were transformed. The book re-examines the relationship between icons, relics and the Virgin, asking whether increasing devotion to these holy objects or figures was related in any way. Some contributions consider the location of relics and later, icons, in Constantinople and other centres of Marian devotion; others explore gender issues, such as the significance of the Virgin's feminine qualities, and whether women and men identified with her equally as a holy figure. The aim of this volume is to build on recent work on the cult of the Virgin Mary in Byzantium and to explore areas that have not yet been studied. The rationale is critical and historical, using literary, artistic, and archaeological sources to evaluate her role in the development of the Byzantine understanding of the ways in which God interacts with creation by means of icons, relics, and the Theotokos.
Author : Matthew J. Milliner
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781506478760
Mother of the Lamb tells the remarkable story of a Byzantine image that emerged from the losing side of the Crusades. Called the Virgin of the Passion in the East and Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the West, the icon has expanded beyond its Byzantine origins to become one of the most pervasive images of our time. It boasts multiple major shrines on nearly every continent and is reflected in every epoch of art history since its origin, even making an appearance at the Olympics in 2012. Matthew Milliner first chronicles the story of the icon's creation and emergence in the immediate aftermath of the Third Crusade, whereupon the icon became a surprising emblem of defeat, its own fame expanding in inverse proportion to Christendom's political contraction. Originally born as a Christian response to the Christian violence of the Crusades, it marked the moment when Mary's ministry of suffering love truly began. Having traced the icon's origin and ubiquity, Milliner teases out the painting's theological depth, and continues the story of the icon's evolution and significance from its origins to the present day. As the story of the icon moves well beyond Byzantine art history, both temporally and thematically, it engages religion, politics, contemporary art, and feminist concerns at once. Always, though, the icon exemplifies dignity in suffering, a lesson that--through this image--Byzantium bequeathed to the wider world. Encapsulating eleven centuries of development of the mourning Mary in Byzantium, the Virgin of the Passion emerges as a commendable icon of humility, a perennial watchword signaling the perils of imagined political glory. The Virgin of the Passion, emblemizing political humility, the powerful agency of women, and the value of inter-Christian and extra-Christian concord, is an exemplary Marian image for the fledgling twenty-first century.
Author : Thomas Arentzen,Mary B. Cunningham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108476287
Images and texts tell various stories about the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, reflecting an important cult with strong doctrinal foundations.
Author : Mary Morse
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501513909
In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the "girdle relics" of the Virgin Mary and other saints loaned to queens and noblewomen, extending childbirth protection to women of all classes. This book examines the texts and images of nine English birth girdles produced between the reigns of Richard II and Henry VIII. Cultural artifacts of lay devotion within the birthing chamber, the birth girdles offered the solace and promise of faith to the parturient woman and her attendants amid religious dissent, political upheaval, recurring epidemics, and the onset of print.
Author : Mary B. Cunningham
Publisher : Translated Texts for Byzantini
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1802078533
This volume provides the first English (or indeed any modern) translation of two early ninth-century hagiographical texts that deal with the Virgin Mary and the apostle Andrew. Both texts are attributed to a Constantinopolitan monk and priest called Epiphanios of the Monastery of Kallistratos. The Life of the Virgin represents the earliest attempt by a Greek-speaking Christian author to provide a full-length biography of this holy figure, from the time of her conception to her death and assumption into heaven. The Life of St Andrew not only provides a brief account of this apostle's life and mission, but also traces the dissemination of his cult, including relics and an icon, in Asia Minor especially during the iconoclast period. Epiphanios reveals his iconophile opinions in this text, accusing iconoclasts of having attempted to destroy some of these objects. A detailed introduction and commentary provide background on Epiphanios and his literary sources, along with assessment of his contribution to the Byzantine Mariological and hagiographical traditions.
Author : Bissera V. Pentcheva
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271048166
Pentcheva demonstrates that a fundamental shift in the Byzantine cult from relics to icons, took place during the late tenth century. Centered upon fundamental questions of art, religion, and politics, Icons and Power makes a vital contribution to the entire field of medieval studies.
Author : Maria Vasilakē
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822029725447
A complete survey of the representation of the Virgin in Byzantine art through a wide selection of works in all media. Icons, illuminated manuscripts, ivories, metalworks, marble reliefs and textiles, dating from the 6th to the 14th century coming from the Benaki Museum in Athens and from many other major public and private collections worldwide. This is the most original and up-to-date publication on the subject, in which art-historical, historical, iconographic and theological issues are brought together for the first time in an effort to cover all aspects of the cult and representation of the Mother of God.
Author : Leena Mari Peltomaa,Andreas Külzer,Pauline Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : UCSD:31822041243643
The present book is dedicated to one main aspect of the Marian cult: it investigates the historical process that made Mary, mother of Jesus, the most prominent intercessor across the Byzantine Empire at the end of Iconoclasm (843). The study touches religious and social issues, it refers only to contemporary ideas and sources and distinguishes itself consciously from later mariological concepts.
Author : Maria Vasilakē
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0754636038
A collection of writings examining the art surrounding the cult of the Virgin Mary during the Byzantine period in the context of wider historical, textual, liturgical, and social issues.
Author : Matthew John Milliner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1267011270
Mary holds the Christ child in the traditional formula, but unexpectedly, angels appear above bearing not good news, but a cross, spear and sponge--tidings of Christ's future torment. This is the Virgin of the Passion icon. Due to its enormous proliferation by papal command, it has been called perhaps the most popular religious icon of the twentieth century. But despite an abundance of recent studies on the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, there has been little investigation into what first spurred this iconographical innovation. This dissertation pursues this question by exploring four themes related to the Virgin of the Passion in Byzantium: Power, painting, priesthood, and predestination.