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- 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
- 1 Embodied Word
- 2 Female Devotion and Mary’s Motherhood before Iconoclasm
- 3 The Theological Substance of St Anna’s Motherhood in Byzantine Homilies and Art
- 4 Krater of Nectar and Altar of the Bread of Life
- 5 The Virgin at Daphni
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
4 - Krater of Nectar and Altar of the Bread of Life
The Theotokos as Provider of the Eucharist in Byzantine Culture
from Part I - Telling Visual Stories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2019
- 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
- 1 Embodied Word
- 2 Female Devotion and Mary’s Motherhood before Iconoclasm
- 3 The Theological Substance of St Anna’s Motherhood in Byzantine Homilies and Art
- 4 Krater of Nectar and Altar of the Bread of Life
- 5 The Virgin at Daphni
- Part II Song and Celebration
- Part III Preaching her Story
- Part IV New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
One of the most emblematic visual productions of the Middle and Late Byzantine periods is the image of the Mother of God in the sanctuary apse. Either enthroned or standing, with her son or alone, and often flanked by angels, the Theotokos dominates the space of the sanctuary;
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- The Reception of the Virgin in ByzantiumMarian Narratives in Texts and Images, pp. 77 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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