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Divine Heiress : the Virgin Mary and the creation of Christian Constantinople / Vasiliki Limberis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.Description: 1 online resource (x, 199 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203036174
  • 9780203036174
  • 0203036174
  • 9780415096775
  • 0415096774
  • 9781134862795
  • 1134862792
  • 1280331402
  • 9781280331404
  • 1134862784
  • 9781134862788
  • 0203303091
  • 9780203303092
  • 9786610331406
  • 6610331405
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Divine Heiress.DDC classification:
  • 232.91/094961/8 20
LOC classification:
  • BT652.R66 L56 1994eb
Other classification:
  • 11.53
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. Mary's introduction to the new empire. 1. Greco-Roman civic religion versus "The Kingdom of God on Earth" 2. The Theodosians and paganism. 3. Theodosius, Pulcheria, and the civic ceremonies. 4. Imperial cult, panegyric, and the Theotokos -- pt. II. Mary's inheritance. 5. The hierarchs' Mary. 6. Byzantium's bequest to the Theotokos -- Appendix: The Akathistos Hymn.
Summary: An examination of the cult of Mary in the cultural and religious life of Constantinople in late antiquity in the context of the religious culture of the Mediterranean world and the imperial Christianity of the Roman Empire.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index.

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pt. I. Mary's introduction to the new empire. 1. Greco-Roman civic religion versus "The Kingdom of God on Earth" 2. The Theodosians and paganism. 3. Theodosius, Pulcheria, and the civic ceremonies. 4. Imperial cult, panegyric, and the Theotokos -- pt. II. Mary's inheritance. 5. The hierarchs' Mary. 6. Byzantium's bequest to the Theotokos -- Appendix: The Akathistos Hymn.

An examination of the cult of Mary in the cultural and religious life of Constantinople in late antiquity in the context of the religious culture of the Mediterranean world and the imperial Christianity of the Roman Empire.

English.

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