Description
This is a seminar on the Mother of God in the Orthodox tradition, with special focus on the Mother of God and the Passion of Christ, a theme that became prevalent after Iconoclasm. Through the study of theological writings, sermons, epigrams, ecclesiastical poetry/hymnology, iconography, and liturgy (especially the services of Holy Friday),the historical development and theological significance of Orthodox devotion to the Theotokos will emerge in all its richness and complexity. Literary and Sonographic sources from the Middle and Late Byzantine periods will be cen? tral to the work of the seminar, as will the Mother of God's Lamentations for the suffering and death of Christ.