Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary"Devoting different sections of the book to each of the various roles Mary has assumed - Virgin, Queen, Bride, Mother, Intercessor - and drawing on official dogma, folk legend, art, history, literature and psychology, the author of Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances from the first century to the present day, and why, for all their beauty and power (and indeed because of them), the legends of Virgin Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority"--Google books description |
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Page 47
... chastity of the mother goddess , the matri- archal image could be utterly transformed as to content , although to all outward appearances it remained unchanged . For in the case of pagan goddesses , the sign of the virgin rarely ...
... chastity of the mother goddess , the matri- archal image could be utterly transformed as to content , although to all outward appearances it remained unchanged . For in the case of pagan goddesses , the sign of the virgin rarely ...
Page 48
... chastity was a virtue - but that is a different matter . ) The use of the image survives in some cases : Elizabeth I was hardly entitled the Virgin Queen because she refused lovers - a succession of favourites characterizes her reign ...
... chastity was a virtue - but that is a different matter . ) The use of the image survives in some cases : Elizabeth I was hardly entitled the Virgin Queen because she refused lovers - a succession of favourites characterizes her reign ...
Page 150
... chastity into Provençal poetry for the first time , in a neat passage on the Christian ethic : Ben devon li amador de bon cor servir amor quar amor non es peccatz anz es vertuts que .ls malvatz fai bos , e.lb bon son melhor , et met om ...
... chastity into Provençal poetry for the first time , in a neat passage on the Christian ethic : Ben devon li amador de bon cor servir amor quar amor non es peccatz anz es vertuts que .ls malvatz fai bos , e.lb bon son melhor , et met om ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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