Alone of all her sex : the myth and the cult of the Virgin Mary
Marina Warner (Author)
"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
Wallaby, 79011-0
xxv, 400, xix pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780671790110, 0671790110
15125761
Virgin : Mary in the Gospels
Mary in the Apocrypha
Virgin birth
Second Eve
Virgins and martyrs
Queen : The Assumption ; Maria Regina
Bride : The Song of Songs ; Troubadours ; Madonna ; Dantie, Beatrice, and the Virgin Mary
Mother : Let it be ; The Milk of Paradise ; Mater Dolorosa ; The Penitent Whore ; The Immaculate Conception ; The Moon and the Stars
Intercessor : Growth in every thing ; Icons and relics ; Visions, the Rosary, and war ; The Hour of our death : St. Luke's Magnificat
A Muddle of Marys
Chronology
"A Wallaby book."