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      The Virgin in Song

      DIVINATIONS: REREADING LATE ANCIENT RELIGION

      SERIES EDITORS

       Daniel Boyarin Virginia Burrus Derek Krueger

      A complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher.

      The Virgin in Song

      MARY AND THE POETRY OF ROMANOS THE MELODIST

      Thomas Arentzen

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      UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Philadelphia

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      THIS BOOK IS MADE POSSIBLE BY A COLLABORATIVE GRANT FROM THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION.

      Copyright © 2017 University of Pennsylvania Press

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher.

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      University of Pennsylvania Press

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Name: Arentzen, Thomas, 1976– author.

      Title: The Virgin in song : Mary and the poetry of Romanos the Melodist / Thomas Arentzen.

      Other titles: Divinations.

      Description: 1st edition. | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017] | Series: Divinations: rereading late ancient religion | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016045439 | ISBN 9780812249071 (hardcover : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Romanus, Melodus, Saint, active 6th century. | Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint—In literature. | Christian poetry, Byzantine—History and criticism. | Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint—Poetry—History and criticism. | Hymns, Greek—History and criticism.

      Classification: LCC BV467.5.R63 A74 2017 | DDC 264.2/3—dc23

      LC record available at

       https://lccn.loc.gov/2016045439

       for Benedicte

      CONTENTS

       A Note on Editions and Translations

       List of Abbreviations

       1. The Song and the City

       2. On the Verge of Virginity

       3. The Mother and Nurse of Our Life

       4. A Voice of Rebirth

       Conclusion. Virginity Recast

       Appendix 1. On the Annunciation

       Appendix 2. Catalogue of Hymns Referred to in the Study

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgments

      A NOTE ON EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS

      Scholars use one of the following two critical editions of the Romanos corpus:

      1. Paul Maas and C. A. Trypanis carried out the first and only complete critical edition of Romanos’s kontakia, Sancti Romani Melodi cantica: Cantica genuina (Oxford: Clarendon, 1963). It includes the fifty-nine kontakia that the editors considered authentic. The OE also has a supplementary volume of pseudo-Romanos, Sancti Romani Melodi cantica: Cantica dubia (Oxford: Clarendon, 1970).

      2. José Grosdidier de Matons produced a French edition, Romanos le Mélode: Hymnes I–V (Paris: Cerf, 1964–81), in SC. This unfinished edition in five volumes consists of fifty-six hymns that the editor considered authentic. Thirty-two additional kontakia were intended to appear in the PE.

      In this book the OE text and numbering is used. The texts in PE do not deviate radically from those in the OE, but the PE editor regarded more kontakia as genuine. For a directory of kontakia with their PE and OE numbering, see Appendix 2.

      All the kontakion translations in this book are my own. For other English translations, consult the bibliography.

      References to the Old Testament follow the LXX numbering. English scriptural quotes are taken from the NRSV translation. Greek names are not transliterated consistently, but are given in their most conventional English forms.

      ABBREVIATIONS

AABS Australian Association for Byzantine Studies
AB Analecta Bollandiana
AClass Acta Classica
AOC Archives de l’Orient chrétien
AE I–IV Ῥωμανοῦ τοῦ Μελῳδοῦ ὕμνοι [the Athens edition]
ANF The Ante-Nicene Fathers
AnzWien Anzeiger der philosophisch-historische Klasse der österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
AUU Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
BBOM Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs
BMGS Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
ByzSt Byzantine Studies/Études Byzantines
BZ Byzantinische
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