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 90
... saints which slept arose " ( Matthew 27:52 ) . An exquisite ivory panel , carved at Rheims and later set into the Emperor Henry II's Book of Pericopes , shows the cracked sarcophagi yielding up the bodies of the saints . White and ...
... saints which slept arose " ( Matthew 27:52 ) . An exquisite ivory panel , carved at Rheims and later set into the Emperor Henry II's Book of Pericopes , shows the cracked sarcophagi yielding up the bodies of the saints . White and ...
Page 91
... saints presage the future glory of each Christian soul , which will also live eternally in the Lord Jesus Christ . The gift of eternal life to the body reflects the more important gift of eternal life to the soul . The resurrection is ...
... saints presage the future glory of each Christian soul , which will also live eternally in the Lord Jesus Christ . The gift of eternal life to the body reflects the more important gift of eternal life to the soul . The resurrection is ...
Page 122
... saints ' shoulders to lead them into the presence of the Redeemer . Paschal I ( 817-24 ) resumed the image in S. Prassede , where the conch mosaic depicts the saints placing an avuncu- lar arm around Saints Prassede and Pudenziana , as ...
... saints ' shoulders to lead them into the presence of the Redeemer . Paschal I ( 817-24 ) resumed the image in S. Prassede , where the conch mosaic depicts the saints placing an avuncu- lar arm around Saints Prassede and Pudenziana , as ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
Copyright | |
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