Book contents
- The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium
- The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Telling Visual Stories
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- 10 The Coptic Homily on the Theotokos Attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem
- 11 Mary as ‘Scala Caelestis’ in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Italy
- 12 Christological and Ecclesiological Narratives in Early Eighth-Century Greek Homilies on the Theotokos
- 13 The Homilies of James of Kokkinobaphos in their Twelfth-Century Context
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
12 - Christological and Ecclesiological Narratives in Early Eighth-Century Greek Homilies on the Theotokos
from Part III - Preaching her Story
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2019
Book contents
- The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium
- The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Telling Visual Stories
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- 10 The Coptic Homily on the Theotokos Attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem
- 11 Mary as ‘Scala Caelestis’ in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Italy
- 12 Christological and Ecclesiological Narratives in Early Eighth-Century Greek Homilies on the Theotokos
- 13 The Homilies of James of Kokkinobaphos in their Twelfth-Century Context
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
The defeat of the great Arab Islamic siege of Constantinople in the late 660s and the formal closure of the debate over the nature of willing in the person of Christ, at the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 680–1, were landmark events in the geopolitical and religious history of the Byzantine Empire.
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- The Reception of the Virgin in ByzantiumMarian Narratives in Texts and Images, pp. 257 - 280Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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