Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (2009 Miri), book

Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (2009) is a book by Miri Rubin.

Editions and translations

Published in New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.

Contents

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

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