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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... cult of the Virgin as such , but in chronological order I have taken aspects of her composite personality at their zenith and then worked backwards and forwards in time showing the ideas that contributed to their genesis and growth and ...
... cult of the Virgin as such , but in chronological order I have taken aspects of her composite personality at their zenith and then worked backwards and forwards in time showing the ideas that contributed to their genesis and growth and ...
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The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary Marina Warner. with scepticism now , it nevertheless influenced profoundly the dogma of the Assumption , which was proclaimed an article of faith by Pope Pius XII in 1950 . The cult of the saints ...
The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary Marina Warner. with scepticism now , it nevertheless influenced profoundly the dogma of the Assumption , which was proclaimed an article of faith by Pope Pius XII in 1950 . The cult of the saints ...
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... cult of the Virgin in the west at this time was the Iconoclast heresy . Under the gifted and forceful Emperor Leo III , the Isaurian ( reigned 717-40 ) , the first blows against the use of images and relics in Christian worship were ...
... cult of the Virgin in the west at this time was the Iconoclast heresy . Under the gifted and forceful Emperor Leo III , the Isaurian ( reigned 717-40 ) , the first blows against the use of images and relics in Christian worship were ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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