Byzantine Religious Culture the Medieval Mediterranean
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Byzantine Religious Culture The Medieval Mediterranean Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500 Managing Editor Hugh Kennedy SOAS, London Editors Paul Magdalino, St. Andrews David Abulafia, Cambridge Benjamin Arbel, Tel Aviv Larry J. Simon, Western Michigan University Olivia Remie Constable, Notre Dame Frances Andrews, St. Andrews VOLUME 92 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.nl/mmed Byzantine Religious Culture Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot Edited by Denis Sullivan Elizabeth Fisher Stratis Papaioannou LEIDEN • BOSTON 2012 Cover illustration: Detail from a miniature in the mid-12th c. manuscript known as the Madrid Skylitzes (Madrid Biblioteca Nacional vitr. 26–2, fol. 84r). It bears the caption “the mother of Basil narrates her vision to the woman.” With kind permission of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Byzantine religious culture : studies in honor of Alice-Mary Talbot / edited by Denis Sullivan, Elizabeth Fisher, Stratis Papaioannou. p. cm. — (The medieval Mediterranean, ISSN 0928-5520 ; v. 92) English, French, and German. Includes index. ISBN 978-90-04-21244-2 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Byzantine Empire—Religious life and customs. I. Talbot, Alice-Mary Maffry. II. Sullivan, Denis. III. Fisher, Elizabeth A. IV. Papaioannou, Stratis. BX300.B995 2012 274.95'04—dc23 2011036378 ISSN 0928-5520 ISBN 978 90 04 21244 2 Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. 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CONTENTS List of Illustrations ............................................................................ xi List of Contributors ........................................................................... xvii Introduction ........................................................................................ xxi Publications of Alice-Mary Talbot ................................................. xxvii List of Abbreviations ......................................................................... xxxv WOMEN Including the ‘Despised Woman’: Jacob of Serug at the Nativity Feast ................................................................................................. 3 Susan Ashbrook Harvey A Meeting of Hypatia of Alexandria with St. Febronia of Nisibis in the Life of Sts. David, Symeon and George of Lesbos .............................................................................................. 19 Alexander Alexakis Une hôtesse importante de l’église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de l’Oxeia à Constantinople : Fébronie ........................................... 31 Michel Kaplan Learned Women of Byzantium and the Surviving Record ........ 53 Maria Mavroudi Women in Byzantine History in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Some Theoretical Considerations ............................ 85 Stamatina McGrath Anna Komnene’s Will ...................................................................... 99 Stratis Papaioannou viii contents ICONS AND IMAGES The Matter of the Word in an Icon in Houston .......................... 125 Annemarie Weyl Carr The Other Image at the Palace Gate and the Visual Propaganda of Leo III ......................................................................................... 139 Paul Magdalino Sacred Objects with Holy Light: Byzantine Icons with Chrysography ................................................................................. 155 Jaroslav Folda ‘Tiles of Nicomedia’ and the Cult of Saint Panteleimon ........... 173 Sharon E. J. Gerstel Michael Psellos on the ‘Usual’ Miracle at Blachernae, the Law, and Neoplatonism ......................................................................... 187 Elizabeth A. Fisher “Pangs of Labor without Pain”: Observations on the Iconography of the Nativity in Byzantium ............................... 205 Henry Maguire Byzantine ‘Medals’: Coins, Amulets and Piety ............................. 217 Cécile Morrisson and Simon Bendall New Evidence on Lead Flasks and Devotional Patterns: From Crusader Jerusalem to Byzantium .............................................. 239 Brigitte Pitarakis The Posthumous Miracles of St. Eustratios on a Sinai Templon Beam ................................................................................................ 267 Nancy Patterson Ševčenko contents ix TEXTS, PRACTICES, SPACES Hagiography and the Cult of Saints in the Light of Epigraphy and Acclamations .......................................................................... 291 Claudia Rapp The Jewish Boy Legend and the ‘Western Twist’ ......................... 313 John Duffy Saints and Saracens: On Some Miracle Accounts of the Early Arab Period .................................................................................... 323 Arietta Papaconstantinou The Monastery of Diomedes ............................................................ 339 John W. Nesbitt Les saints d’Italie méridionale (IXe–XIIe s.) et leur rôle dans la société locale ................................................................................... 347 Stéphanos Efthymiades Zur Memorialkultur im byzantinischen Mittelalter .................... 373 Michael Grünbart Siege Warfare, Nikephoros II Phokas, Relics and Personal Piety ................................................................................................. 395 Denis F. Sullivan An Anonymous Narrative of the Martyrdom of the Anchorites of Mount Sinai (BHG 307d) ........................................................ 411 Angela Constantinides Hero Nicholas the Monk and Former Soldier ........................................ 421 Paul Stephenson and Brooke Shilling The Testament of the Patriarch Athanasios I of Constantinople (1289–93, 1303–09) ....................................................................... 439 Manolis S. Patedakis Index .................................................................................................... 465 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figures accompanying the article of Annemarie Weyl Carr: 1: Icon of the Mother of God. The Menil Collection, Houston, inv. X490.031. Bronze. Source: Taylor and Dull, by permission of The Menil Collection, Houston ........................ 137 2: Icon of the Mother of God with angels. The Benaki Museum, Athens, inv. 11419. Bronze. Source: by permission of The Benaki Museum, Athens ................................................. 137 Figures accompanying the article of Jaroslav Folda: 1: Icon from the Monastery of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai: Figure of Christ enthroned, dating from the 7th century. Source: photo reproduced by permission of Archbishop Damianos and the Fathers of the Monastery of St. Catherine, and courtesy of the Michigan-Princeton- Alexandria Expedition to Mount Sinai ..................................... 169 2: Mosaic in the Monastery of the Nea Moni, Chios., Anastasis image in the main eastern apse. Dating from the mid-11th century. Source: photo reproduced by permission of the Dumbarton Oaks Photograph Archive ..................................... 169 3: Icon from the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, Image of the Annunciation. Dating from the late 12th century. Source: photo reproduced by permission of Archbishop Damianos and the Fathers of the Monastery of St. Catherine, and courtesy of the Michigan-Princeton- Alexandria Expedition to Mount Sinai ..................................... 170 4: Icon from the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, Image of the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels. Dating from the first half of the 13th century. Source: photo reproduced by permission of Archbishop Damianos and the Fathers of the Monastery of St. Catherine, and courtesy of the Michigan-Princeton-Alexandria Expedition to Mount Sinai .............................................................................. 170 xii list of illustrations 5: Painted panel from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The Mellon Madonna: Image of the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels. Dating from the later 13th century, between 1260 and 1291. Source: photo reproduced courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ......................................................................... 171 Figures accompanying the article of Sharon E. J. Gerstel: 1: London, Private Collection. St. Panteleimon. Source: Sharon Gerstel ............................................................................................. 185 2: Baltimore, Walters Art Museum. St. Panteleimon (acc. no. 48.2086.15). Source: courtesy of the Walters Art Museum .......................................................................................... 185 3: Baltimore, Walters Art Museum. St. Panteleimon (acc. no. 48.806.4). Source: courtesy of the Walters Art Museum .......................................................................................... 186 4: Moscow, State Historical Museum. St. Panteleimon