TY  - GEN
T1  - The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400-1000 : hymns, homilies and hagiography
A1  - Cunningham, Mary (Lecturer in historical theology and Othodox Christian studies)
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781009327244
AB  - 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.
OP  - 275
NO  - Reissued as Open Access in 2022. Originally published in 2021, 9781108990530.
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Sep 2022).
CN  - BT645.3 .C86 2022
SN  - 9781009327244 (ebook)
SN  - 9781009327251 (paperback)
SN  - 9781009327251
KW  - Mary, : Blessed Virgin, Saint : Devotion to : Byzantine Empire.
KW  - Orthodox Eastern Church : Liturgy.
KW  - Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, in the liturgy : Orthodox Eastern Church.
KW  - Hymns, Greek : Byzantine Empire : History and criticism.
KW  - Sermons, Greek : Byzantine Empire : History and criticism.
KW  - Byzantine Empire : Religious life and customs.
ER  -