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 xxiii
... ideas that contributed to their genesis and growth and lingered on in the tiredness of old age . The idea of the Virgin's queenship had a value during the emergence of powerful kings in western Europe that it no longer has ; but the ...
... ideas that contributed to their genesis and growth and lingered on in the tiredness of old age . The idea of the Virgin's queenship had a value during the emergence of powerful kings in western Europe that it no longer has ; but the ...
Page 97
... idea that obtained in imperial China that the most filial gift a child could give a parent was a richly decorated coffin or a grave plot chosen according to the specifications of a leading geo- mancer , reveal that different religions ...
... idea that obtained in imperial China that the most filial gift a child could give a parent was a richly decorated coffin or a grave plot chosen according to the specifications of a leading geo- mancer , reveal that different religions ...
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... idea of more importance also led to the decline of the symbol of Mary's milk . For the controversy over her Immaculate Conception was in full swing in the fifteenth century . Mary had been spared , according to many among the faithful ...
... idea of more importance also led to the decline of the symbol of Mary's milk . For the controversy over her Immaculate Conception was in full swing in the fifteenth century . Mary had been spared , according to many among the faithful ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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