Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin MaryKnopf, 1976 - 400 pages |
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... moon : Veillez toujours , belle lune Aux besoins de vos dévots . Watch over always , lovely moon , the needs of those devoted to you.11 The association of the Virgin with the moon in seventeenth - century paintings of the Immaculate ...
... moon : Veillez toujours , belle lune Aux besoins de vos dévots . Watch over always , lovely moon , the needs of those devoted to you.11 The association of the Virgin with the moon in seventeenth - century paintings of the Immaculate ...
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... moon's functions to the Stoics , who " assert that the sun is kindled and fed from the sea , but that for the moon , the moving waters from the springs and lakes send up a sweet and mild exhalation . " ' 13 According to some systems of ...
... moon's functions to the Stoics , who " assert that the sun is kindled and fed from the sea , but that for the moon , the moving waters from the springs and lakes send up a sweet and mild exhalation . " ' 13 According to some systems of ...
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... moon and fecundity is alluded to in that loveliest and most sympathetic of images , the nursing Madonna of Humility in Trecento Italian art . Millard Meiss believes the lost Simone Martini prototype may have assembled the sun , moon ...
... moon and fecundity is alluded to in that loveliest and most sympathetic of images , the nursing Madonna of Humility in Trecento Italian art . Millard Meiss believes the lost Simone Martini prototype may have assembled the sun , moon ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 1 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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