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Divine Heiress : the Virgin Mary and the creation of Christian Constantinople / Vasiliki Limberis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Limberis, Vasiliki, 1954-
- Limberis V Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Rome.
- Mary.
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Orthodox Eastern Church--Hymns--History and criticism.
- Orthodox Eastern Church.
- Christianity and culture--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Christianity and culture.
- Hymns, Greek--History and criticism.
- Hymns, Greek.
- Istanbul (Turkey)--Church history.
- Istanbul (Turkey).
- Byzantine Empire--Church history.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Divine Heiress explores the vital role of the Virgin Mary in the cultural and religious life of Constantinople in late antiquity. It shows how she was transformed from a humble Jewish maiden into a divine figure and supernatural protector of Constantinople.Vasiliki Limberis examines the cult of Mary in the context of the religious culture of the Mediterranean world and the imperial Christianity of the Roman Empire. The author looks at all the evidence for the cult but pays particular attention to the early hymns to the virgin. These hymns preserved the strong indigenous goddess tr
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Greco-Roman civic religion versus ~The Kingdom of God on Earth~; The Theodosians and paganism; Theodosius, Pulcheria, and the civic ceremonies; Imperial cult, panegyric, and the Theotokos; The hierarchs' Mary; Byzantium's bequest to the Theotokos; Conclusion; Map of Constantinople; Appendix: The Akathistos Hymn; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-193) and index.
- Contains:
- Orthodox Eastern Church. Akathistos hymnos. English. 1994.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-86278-4
- 1-134-86279-2
- 1-280-33140-2
- 9780203303091
- 0-203-30309-1
- 0-203-03617-4
- 9780203036174
- OCLC:
- 252798872
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