id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-3211	Dobrov, Gregory W.	A Dialogue with Death: Ritual Lament and the θρῆνος Θεοτόκου of Romanos Melodos	1994	21	.pdf	application/pdf	8685	311	55	In our kontakion, I submit, Romanos situates the paradoxical and synthetic figure of the Theotokos wi thin an archetypal structure of ritual lament involving a mother, in the company of other women, lamenting her dead son. The Gospels, then, have provided an ingenious way for Romanos to stage this very aspect of ritual lament and, thereby, to contribute an important feature to the subsequent threnos tradition: the moirologhistra may still engage the 'deceased' on this side of eternity!	cache/grbs-3211.pdf	txt/grbs-3211.txt