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Institute Staff::  Dr Mary B. Cunningham
Honorary Fellow in Byzantine Studies

Current Research
Mary Cunningham is currently working on 8th-9th-century Greek hymns and homilies on the Virgin Mary. A collection of twelve homilies in an English translation with commentary is currently in press at St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, Crestwood, NY. Proceedings of a conference on the Theotokos (held in August 2006) are being published by Ashgate Publishing, and a joint book (with Prof Leslie Brubaker) on the cult of the Virgin during the period of Iconoclasm is to be published by Cambridge University Press. New projects which are in progress include a full English translation of Sylvester Syropoulos’s ‘Memoirs’, a study of the early Christian theological response to martyrdom, and work on the didactic treatment of apophatic theology in the Byzantine and Orthodox Christian traditions.

Some Recent Publications

Books

• (2008) (ed. with Elizabeth Theokritoff), The Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology (Cambridge)
• (2002) Faith in the Byzantine World (Oxford).
• (1998) (ed. with P. Allen), Preacher and Audience. Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics (Leiden).

Articles and Chapters

• (2006) '"All-holy infant": Byzantine and Western views on the conception of the Virgin Mary', St Vladimir's Seminary Quarterly 50.1-2: 127-48
• (2004) 'The meeting of the old and the new: the typology of Mary the Theotokos in Byzantine homilies and hymns', R.N. Swanson (ed.), Studies in Church History 39: The Church and Mary (Suffolk).
• (2004) 'The letter and the spirit: some problems in transmitting patristic texts to a modern audience', M. Mullett (ed.), Metaphrastes, or, Gained in Translation, Belfast Byzantine Texts and Translations 9 (Belfast), 28-38.

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