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 195
... milk therefore occu- pies a very different place . The Wisdom books of the Old Testament constantly return to the twin symbol , and particularly to honey . " My son , " says the Book of Proverbs , " eat thou honey , because it is good ...
... milk therefore occu- pies a very different place . The Wisdom books of the Old Testament constantly return to the twin symbol , and particularly to honey . " My son , " says the Book of Proverbs , " eat thou honey , because it is good ...
Page 196
... milk and honey . The Romans also connected both with the eternity of the heavens . For on one night Juno's milk , when she was nursing Hercules , sprayed across the sky and created the Milky Way , our galaxy . The Greek galaktos means ...
... milk and honey . The Romans also connected both with the eternity of the heavens . For on one night Juno's milk , when she was nursing Hercules , sprayed across the sky and created the Milky Way , our galaxy . The Greek galaktos means ...
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... milk flow from Mary's breasts into the mouths of sufferers in Purgatory.24 The association of Mary's milk with her powers of intercession and healing inspired an extraordinary quantity of relics in Europe . From the thirteenth century ...
... milk flow from Mary's breasts into the mouths of sufferers in Purgatory.24 The association of Mary's milk with her powers of intercession and healing inspired an extraordinary quantity of relics in Europe . From the thirteenth century ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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