Images of the Mother of God: Perceptions of the Virgin Mary in Byzantium

Bilingual (Greek-English) edition. Hard cover, 25X18 cm, 384 pp., ill.: 28 color and 169 B/W pictures. ISBN: 0-7546-3603-8.

Fully illustrated, Images of the Mother of God complements the successful exhibition catalogue of the ‘Mother of God’ exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens. Bringing together the work of leading international authorities and younger scholars to provide a wide-ranging survey of how the Theotokos was perceived in the Byzantine world. It embraces the disciplines of art historians, archaeologists, traditional and feminist historians, as well as theologians, philologists and social anthropologists. Images of the Mother of God will appeal not just to those interested in Byzantine art and culture, but also to scholars of Western Europe in the Middle Ages who are looking for comparative materials in their own work. // Esta edicion, ricamente ilustrada con cuadros en color e imagenes en blanco y negro, completa el exitoso catalogo de la exposicion del Museo Benaki "Madre de Dios. Representaciones de la Virgen en el Arte Bizantino". Comprende estudios escritos por reputados cientificos y por jovenes investigadores. Historiadores del Arte, arqueologos, teologos, filologos e historiadores se acercan y tratan de ilustrar e interpretar el fenomeno del culto a la Madre de Dios en el mundo bizantino. Este libro no esta dirigido solo a cuantos se ocupan o se interesan por Bizancio y su cultura, sino a cuantos estudian en general el mundo mediterraneo y su mentalidad.

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