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Alone of all her sex : the myth and the cult of the Virgin Mary / Marina Warner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.Edition: New edDescription: 1 online resource (xxxvii, 430 pages, 40 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780191648694
  • 0191648698
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alone of All Her Sex : The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary.DDC classification:
  • 232.91
LOC classification:
  • BT610 .W37 2013eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Part one: VIRGIN: Mary in the gospels -- Mary in the apocrypha -- Virgin birth -- Second Eve -- Virgins and martyrs -- Part two: QUEEN: The assumption -- Maria Regina -- Part three: BRIDE: The song of songs -- Troubadours -- Madonna -- Dante, Beatrice, and the Virgin Mary -- Part four: Mother: Let it be -- The milk of paradise -- Mater dolorosa -- The penitent whore -- The immaculate conception -- The moon and the stars -- Part five: INTERCESSOR: Growth in every thing -- Icons and relics -- visions, the rosary, and war -- The hour of our death.
Summary: This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of All Her Sex holds up to the light different emphases occurring at different times, and highlights that the apparent archetype of a magna mater is constantly in play with social and historical conditions and values. Marina Warner's interesting perspective was forged in the aftermath of significant postwar developments in history, anthropology, and feminism.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)561687

Originally published: 1976, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-409) and index.

Part one: VIRGIN: Mary in the gospels -- Mary in the apocrypha -- Virgin birth -- Second Eve -- Virgins and martyrs -- Part two: QUEEN: The assumption -- Maria Regina -- Part three: BRIDE: The song of songs -- Troubadours -- Madonna -- Dante, Beatrice, and the Virgin Mary -- Part four: Mother: Let it be -- The milk of paradise -- Mater dolorosa -- The penitent whore -- The immaculate conception -- The moon and the stars -- Part five: INTERCESSOR: Growth in every thing -- Icons and relics -- visions, the rosary, and war -- The hour of our death.

This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of All Her Sex holds up to the light different emphases occurring at different times, and highlights that the apparent archetype of a magna mater is constantly in play with social and historical conditions and values. Marina Warner's interesting perspective was forged in the aftermath of significant postwar developments in history, anthropology, and feminism.

Print version record.