The Virgin in Song: Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist by Thomas Arentzen

The Virgin in Song: Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist

Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion

Thomas Arentzen

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nonfiction art classics literary religion reflective medium-paced
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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...

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