《The Life of the Virgin》是2012年5月29日Yale University Press出版的圖書，作者是Stephen J. Shoemaker。
基本介紹
- 書名：The Life of the Virgin
- 作者：Stephen J. Shoemaker
- 出版社：Yale University Press
- 出版時間：2012年5月29日
- ISBN：9780300175042
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Long overlooked by scholars, this seventh-century "Life of the Virgin", attributed to Maximus the Confessor, is the earliest complete Marian biography. Originally written in Greek and now surviving only in Old Georgian, it is now translated for the first time into English. It is a work that holds profound significance for understanding the history of late ancient and medieval Christianity, providing a rich source for understanding the history of Christian piety. This Life is especially remarkable for its representation of Mary's prominent involvement in her son's ministry and her leadership of the early Christian community. In particular, it reveals highly developed devotion to Mary's compassionate suffering at the Crucifixion, anticipating by several centuries an influential medieval style of devotion known as "affective piety" whose origins generally have been confined to the Western High Middle Ages.
作者簡介
Stephen Shoemaker (Ph.D. '97, Duke University) is a specialist on the history of Christianity and the beginnings of Islam. His primary interests lie in the ancient and early medieval Christian traditions, and more specifically in early Byzantine and Near Eastern Christianity. His research focuses on early devotion to the Virgin Mary, Christian apocryphal literature, and Islamic origins.
