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Ashgate Pub Co 2011 Hardcover New 2011 ed edition. 350 pages. 9.88x6.93x1.10 inches.

ISBN10: 0754662667, ISBN13: 9780754662662, [publisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, U.K.] Softcover First Edition God in Byzantium Texts and Images Imprint: Routled Illustrations: Includes 5 figures and 36 bw/colour plates Published: August 2011 Format: 244 x 172 mm Extent: 306 pages ca. Binding: Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-6266-2 Price : Euro 250,00.- Edited by Leslie Brubaker, University of Birmingham and Mary Cunningham, The University of Nottingham, UK Series : Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies: 11 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 centred more on the cult of images of the Mother of God. The papers presented here, by an international team of scholars, consider the development and transformation of the cult from approximately the fourth through the twelfth centuries. The volume opens with discussion of the origins of the cult, and its Near Eastern manifestations, including the archaeological site of the Kathisma church in Palestine, which represents the earliest Marian shrine in the Holy Land, and Syriac poetic treatment of the Virgin. The principal focus, however, is on the 8th and 9th centuries in Byzantium, as a critical period when Christian attitudes toward the Virgin and her veneration were transformed. The book re-examines the relationship between icons, relics and the Virgin, asking whether increasing ...

Ashgate Pub Co, Date: 2011. Hardcover. New. 2011 ed edition. 350 pages. 9.88x6.93x1.10 inches. 2011. Ashgate Pub Co ISBN 0754662667 9780754662662 [GB]