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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... story gives commentators anguish , for on a psychological and narrative plane , Mary should have stayed with Elisa- beth to help with the birth , yet Luke leaves this completely ambiguous.14 The double annunciations to Zacharias and to ...
... story gives commentators anguish , for on a psychological and narrative plane , Mary should have stayed with Elisa- beth to help with the birth , yet Luke leaves this completely ambiguous.14 The double annunciations to Zacharias and to ...
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... Story of the Birth of Mary . They were both written in Latin , probably as early as the eighth or ninth century , with prefaces purporting to be by St. Jerome . This stratagem - invoking the name of the great biblical scholar and ...
... Story of the Birth of Mary . They were both written in Latin , probably as early as the eighth or ninth century , with prefaces purporting to be by St. Jerome . This stratagem - invoking the name of the great biblical scholar and ...
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... story of a young boy who has been brought up in a monastery all his life and has never seen a woman . The abbot ... story in all seriousness , for the relationship of moral virtue to strength of all kinds is central to Christian ascetic ...
... story of a young boy who has been brought up in a monastery all his life and has never seen a woman . The abbot ... story in all seriousness , for the relationship of moral virtue to strength of all kinds is central to Christian ascetic ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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