A Dialogue with Death: Ritual Lament and the θρῆνος Θεοτόκου of Romanos Melodos

Abstract

<!--StartFragment--> Romanos’ dialogic kontakion “Mary at the Cross” seeks to reconcile competing literary and religious traditions concerned with lamenting death, in the historical context of the growth of the cult of Mary and that of icons. <!--EndFragment-->

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