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Who Is Mary?
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 25.00For women of the Italian Renaissance, the Virgin Mary was one of the most important role models. Who Is Mary? presents devotional works written by three women better known for their secular writings: Vittoria Colonna, famed for her Petrarchan lyric verse; Chiara Matraini, one of the most original poets of her generation; and the wide-ranging, intellectually... more...
Miracles of the Virgin in Medieval England
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 90.00First book-length study of hagiographical legends of the Virgin Mary in medieval England, with particular reference to her relationship with Jews, books, and the law. more...
Mother Queens and Princely Sons
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 80.00This study explores representations of the Madonna and Child in early modern culture. It considers the mother and son as a conceptual, religio-political unit and examines the ways in which that unit was embodied and performed. Of primary interest is the way mothers derived agency from bearing incipient rulers. more...
Alone of All Her Sex
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 25.99This 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... more...
Fünf Vorträge zu Religion und Geschichtsphilosophie für England und Schottland
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 210.00Ernst Troeltsch received an invitation to deliver lectures on his life?s work in London, Edinburgh, and Oxford in March 1923 as one of the first German scholars to visit Britain after the First World War; however he died shortly before he could make the trip. The texts of the five lectures, published posthumously, carry Troeltsch?s idea of a European... more...
Victorians and the Virgin Mary
Manchester University Press 2008; US$ 95.00This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women. Drawing on a variety of sources, this book seeks to revise... more...
Divine Heiress
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 49.95Divine Heiress explores the vital role of the Virgin Mary in the cultural and religious life of Constantinople in late antiquity. It shows how she was transformed from a humble Jewish maiden into a divine figure and supernatural protector of Constantinople. Vasiliki Limberis examines the cult of Mary in the context of the religious culture of the... more...
Sticker Nation 2
The Disinformation Company 2009; US$ 1.99A huge new volume of the most popular underground stickers from the sloganeers at StickerNation! more...







