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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
5 - The Virgin at Daphni
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
The monastic church at Daphni, about 10 km outside of Athens, is a monument with little documentation attached to it: the date of ca. 1080–1100 usually assigned to the church and its decoration, however likely, is speculative and based on the architecture and style of mosaic decoration rather than archival evidence.
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- The Reception of the Virgin in ByzantiumMarian Narratives in Texts and Images, pp. 120 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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