The Virgin in Song : : Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist / / Thomas Arentzen.
According to legend, the Virgin appeared one Christmas Eve to an artless young man standing in one of Constantinople's most famous Marian shrines. She offered him a scroll of papyrus with the injunction that he swallow it, and following the Virgin's command, he did so. Immediately his voic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Editions and Translations
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. The Song and the City
- 2. On the Verge of Virginity
- 3. The Mother and Nurse of Our Life
- 4. A Voice of Rebirth
- Conclusion. Virginity Recast
- Appendix 1. On the Annunciation
- Appendix 2. Catalogue of Hymns Referred to in the Study
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments