TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cunningham,Mary
TI  - The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400-1000: hymns, homilies and hagiography 
SN  - 9781009327244 (ebook)
AV  - BT645.3 .C86 2022
U1  - 232.91 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mary,
KW  - Orthodox Eastern Church
KW  - Liturgy
KW  - Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, in the liturgy
KW  - Hymns, Greek
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Sermons, Greek
KW  - Religious life and customs
N1  - Reissued as Open Access in 2022. Originally published in 2021, 9781108990530; Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Sep 2022)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009327244
ER  -