Table of contents for Icons and power : the Mother of God in Byzantium / Bissera V. Pentcheva.

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 Contents
	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Note on the Transliteration of Slavic and Greek
	List of Emperors, A.D. 324/1204
	Introduction
Part I. The Theotokos and Imperial Power
1	Origins of the Civic Cult
2	The Avar Siege: Memory and Change
3	In the Context of War
Part II. Icons in Practice
4	The Hodegetria Icon and Its Tuesday Procession
5	The Blachernai Responds: The Icon of the "Usual Miracle"
6	Synthesis: Imperial Memorial Rites at the Pantokrator
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
	Index 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Icons, Byzantine.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Art.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to.
Art and state -- Byzantine Empire.