Devoting various 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, Warner 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 the Virgin Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority.
Contents
Prologue
Part One: Virgin 1. Mary in the Gospels 2. Mary in the Apocrypha 3. Virgin Birth 4. Second Eve 5. Virgins and Martyrs
Part Two: Queen 6. The Assumption 7. Maria Regina
Part Three: Bride 8. The Song of Songs 9. Troubadours 10. Madonna 11. Dante, Beatrice, and the Virgin Mary
Part Four: Mother 12. Let It Be 13. The Milk of Paradise 14. Mater Dolorosa 15. The Penitent Whore 16. The Immaculate Conception 17. The Moon and the Stars
Part Five: Intercessor 18. Growth in Every Thing 19. Icons and Relics 20. Visions, the Rosary, and War 21. The Hour of Our Death
Epilogue
Appendix A: St. Luke's Magnificat Appendix B: A Muddle of Marys
Chronology
Marina Warner is a novelist, cultural historian, and critic. Her fiction includes Indigo and The Lost Father (winner of a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), as well as a collection of stories, Mermaids in the Basement. Among her acclaimed nonfiction works are Alone of All Her Sex, Monuments and Maidens, Joan of Arc, From the Beast to the Blonde, No Go The Bogeyman, and Managing Monsters (1994 Reith Lectures).
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Devoting various 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, Warner 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 the Virgin Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority.
Contents
Prologue
Part One: Virgin 1. Mary in the Gospels 2. Mary in the Apocrypha 3. Virgin Birth 4. Second Eve 5. Virgins and Martyrs
Part Two: Queen 6. The Assumption 7. Maria Regina
Part Three: Bride 8. The Song of Songs 9. Troubadours 10. Madonna 11. Dante, Beatrice, and the Virgin Mary
Part Four: Mother 12. Let It Be 13. The Milk of Paradise 14. Mater Dolorosa 15. The Penitent Whore 16. The Immaculate Conception 17. The Moon and the Stars
Part Five: Intercessor 18. Growth in Every Thing 19. Icons and Relics 20. Visions, the Rosary, and War 21. The Hour of Our Death
Epilogue
Appendix A: St. Luke's Magnificat Appendix B: A Muddle of Marys
Chronology
Author
Marina Warner is a novelist, cultural historian, and critic. Her fiction includes Indigo and The Lost Father (winner of a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), as well as a collection of stories, Mermaids in the Basement. Among her acclaimed nonfiction works are Alone of All Her Sex, Monuments and Maidens, Joan of Arc, From the Beast to the Blonde, No Go The Bogeyman, and Managing Monsters (1994 Reith Lectures).
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