La influencia del Protevangelium Iacobi en la tradición homilética meso-bizantina sobre la madre de Dios

Abstract

As most scholars agree, devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, begun to receive formal expression in most liturgical or theological sources until approximately the beginning of the fourth century. Among other canonical and apocryphal texts of the late second century, the Protevangelium is unique in its focus on the person of the Virgin Mary. Based on the Protevangelium we will examine Middle Byzantine homilies and sermons to the Mother of God on the occasion of the feasts of Mary’s Conception, Nativity and Presentation into the Temple, while we will focus also on the origins of the Marian feasts.