Icons and power : the Mother of God in Byzantium / Bissera V. Pentcheva.
By: Pentcheva, Bissera V
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2006.Description: xviii, 302 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 27 cm.ISBN: 0271025514; 9780271025513Subject(s): Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint | Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to | Icons, Byzantine | Art and state -- Byzantine EmpireLOC classification: N8187.5 .P46 2006Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | British Museum | Britain Europe and Prehistory | Shelves | BYZ 4.1 P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 163527-1001 |
Includes bibliography: p. [249]-285 and index.
Contents: Theotokos and imperial power -- Origins of the civic cult -- The Avar siege: memory and change -- In the context of war -- Icons in practice -- The Hodegetria icon and its Tuesday procession -- The Blachernai responds: the icon of the "usual miracle" -- Synthesis: imperial memorial rites at the Pantokrator