Name/Title
Mother of God :a history of the Virgin Mary /Miri Rubin.Description
From temple maiden to the bearer of God: to the year 431 -- The earliest glimpses of Mary -- Mary in a Christian empire -- Versions of Mary -- Mary of the imperial state -- From the Eastern Mediterranean to the Irish Sea: to the year 1000 -- Mary of the Christian empire -- Beyond the Greek world -- The emergence of European Mary -- The emergence of Mary's hegemony: 1000-1200 -- Mary of the cloister -- Mary of polemic and encounter -- Abundance and ubiquity -- Mary, local and familiar: 1200-1400 -- Mary in liturgy, song, and prayer -- Mary, the friars, and the mother tongue -- Teaching Mary in parish and home -- Mary's miracles as reward and as punishment -- Mary at the foot of the cross -- Mary and women, Mary and men -- Mary as queen and reformer: 1400-1500 -- Mary the sublime -- Mary: unlike any other -- Mary of parish practice and family life -- Mary: a world of devotional possibilities -- Mary reformed, Mary global: 1500 and beyond -- Mary of reform and reformation -- From Europe to the rest of the world -- Mary in a world of neighbouring diversity -- After Mary: a conclusion.
xxvi, 532 p., [16] p. of plates :col. ill., maps ;25 cm.Book Details
Author
Rubin, MiriDate Published
2009Publication Subjects
Mary,Blessed Virgin, Saint--History of doctrines.
Mary,Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--History.
Mary,Blessed Virgin, Saint--Art.Call No.
BT610.R38 2009ISBN
9780300105001 (hbk. : alk. paper), 0300105002 (hbk. : alk. paper), 9780300164329 (pbk.)LCCN
2008939283Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-509) and index.