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A polemical study about the most powerful divine woman in the history of the world.
List of contents
- Preface to the new edition
- Author's Note
- 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: Troubadors
- 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
About the author
Marina Warner's award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales include
Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (1985) and
No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998). Her Clarendon Lectures
Fantastic Metamorphoses; Other Worlds were published in 2002; her essays on literature and culture were collected in
Signs & Wonders (2000), and
Phantasmagoria, a study of spirits and technology, appeared in 2006. Marina Warner was created a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French in 2002, and a Commendatore by the Italians in 2005. She was awarded the Warburg Prize in Germany in 2004, and is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is Professor of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and President of the British Comparative Literature Association. In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Oxford gave her an Honorary Doctorate in 2005.
Summary
A polemical study about the most powerful divine woman in the history of the world.
