This book examines women’s relationship to the Virgin Mary in two different cultural and religious contexts, and compares how these relationships have been an

An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.

A sweeping, ambitious study of the Virgin Mary’s emergence and role throughout Western historyHow did the Virgin Mary, about whom very little is said in the G

Examines the impact of Jesus of Nazareth on Western culture--politically, socially, and economically--and suggests that a study of the various historical repres

This interdisciplinary study explores Marian imagery and representations in world literature and art throughout the centuries. This book demonstrates the widesp