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Images of the Mother of God : Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I Early cult and representations
- 1 Isis and Mary in early icons
- 2 The enigmatic Coptic Galaktotrophousa and the cult of the Virgin Mary in Egypt
- 3 Icons and sites. Cult images of the Virgin in mediaeval Rome
- 4 Theotokos and Logos: the interpretation and reinterpretation of the sanctuary programme of the Koimesis Church, Nicaea
- II The theology of the Theotokos
- 5 The Virgin as the true Ark of the Covenant
- 6 The Theotokos in Byzantine hymnography: typology and allegory
- 7 Use and abuse of the 'image' of the Theotokos in the political life of Byzantium (with special reference to the iconoclast period)
- 8 From poetry to liturgy: the cult of the Virgin in the Middle Byzantine era
- 9 Exchanging embrace. The body of salvation
- 10 The symbolism of the censer in Byzantine representations of the Dormition of the Virgin
- 11 The Portaitissa icon at Iveron monastery and the cult of the Virgin on Mount Athos
- III Female authority and devotion
- 12 The empress and die Virgin in early Byzantium: piety, authority and devotion
- 13 Female piety in context: understanding developments in private devotional practices
- 14 The eyes of the Mother of God
- 15 Zoe's lead, seal: female invocation to the Annunciation of the Virgin
- IV Public and private cult
- 16 Byzantine domestic art as evidence for the early cult of the Virgin
- 17 The 'activated' icon: the Hodegetria procession and Mary's Eisodos
- 18 Picturing the spiritual protector: from Blachernitissa to Hodegetria
- 19 The image of the Virgin Zoodochos Pege: two questions concerning its origin
- 20 The cult of the Virgin Zoodochos Pege at Mistra.
- 21 The Virgin, the Christ-child arid the evil eye
- 22 Praying for the salvation of the empire?
- V Between East and West
- 23 Thoughts on Mary east and west
- 24 The Kahn and Mellon Madonnas and their place in the history of the Virgin and Child Enthroned in Italy and the East
- 25 Representations of the Virgin in Lusignan Cyprus
- 26 The legacy of the Hodegetria: holy icons and legends between east and west
- 27 A Byzantine icon of the dexiokratousa Hodegetria from Crete at the Benaki Museum
- Epilogue
- Epilogue
- Index.