The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium write by Thomas Arentzen. This book was released on 2019-08-15. The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Images and texts tell various stories about the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, reflecting an important cult with strong doctrinal foundations.
The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium
The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium write by Leslie Brubaker. This book was released on 2011. The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 centered more on the cult of images of the Mother of God. This international cast of scholars, consider the development and transformation of the cult from approximately the fourth through the twelfth centuries. The aim of this volume is to build on recent work on the cult of the Virgin Mary in Byzantium and to explore new areas of study. 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.
Miracle Tales from Byzantium
Miracle Tales from Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miracle Tales from Byzantium write by . This book was released on 2012-05-14. Miracle Tales from Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. They deepen our understanding of attitudes toward miracles and display the remarkable range of registers in which Greek could be written during the Byzantine period.
The Virgin in Song
The Virgin in Song - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Virgin in Song write by Thomas Arentzen. This book was released on 2017-04-03. The Virgin in Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. According to legend, the Virgin appeared one Christmas Eve to an artless young man standing in one of Constantinople's most famous Marian shrines. She offered him a scroll of papyrus with the injunction that he swallow it, and following the Virgin's command, he did so. Immediately his voice turned sweet and gentle as he spontaneously intoned his hymn "The Virgin today gives birth." So was born the career of Romanos the Melodist (ca. 485-560), one of the greatest liturgical poets of Byzantium, author of at least sixty long hymns, or kontakia, that were chanted during the night vigils preceding major feasts and festivals. In The Virgin in Song, Thomas Arentzen explores the characterization of Mary in these kontakia and the ways in which the kontakia echoed the cult of the Virgin. He focuses on three key moments in her story as marked in the liturgical calendar: her encounter with Gabriel at the Annunciation, her child's birth at Christmas, and the death of her son on Good Friday. Consistently, Arentzen contends, Romanos counters expectations by shifting emphasis away from Christ himself to focus on Mary—as the subject of the erotic gaze, as a breastfeeding figure of abundance and fertility, and finally as an authoritatively vocal woman who conveys the secrets of her son and the joys of the resurrection. Through his hymns, Romanos inspired an affective relationship between Mary and his audience, bringing the human and the holy into dialogue. By plumbing her emotional depths, the poet traces her process of understanding as she apprehends the mysteries that she embodies. By giving her a powerful voice, he grants subjectivity to a maiden who becomes a mediator. Romanos shaped a figure, Arentzen argues, who related intimately to her flock in a formative period of Christian orthodoxy.
Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium
Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium write by Andrew Mellas. This book was released on 2020-07-09. Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emotions in Byzantium came to life through hymnody, which invited the faithful to step into a liturgical world of compunction.
