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Origins of the cult of the Virgin Mary / edited by Chris Maunder. - London ; New York : Burns & Oates, 2008. - xvii, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The early cult of Mary and inter-religious contexts in the fifth-century church / John McGuckin -- Origins of the cult of the Virgin Mary in the New Testament / Chris Maunder -- The origins of Marian art in the catacombs and the problems of identification / Geri Parlby -- Mary in the apocryphal New Testament / J. K. Elliot -- The cult of the Virgin in the fourth century: a fresh look at some old and new sources / Stephen Shoemaker -- The Theotokos and the Council of Ephesus / Richard M. Price -- Did Cyril of Alexandria invent Mariology? / Antonia Atanassova -- The life-bearing spring / Margaret Barker -- Candlemas: a festival of Roman origin / Alistair MacGregor -- Pope John VII's devotion to Mary: papal images of Mary from the fifth to the early eighth centuries / Eileen Rubery

ISBN: 9780860124566 (pbk.) 0860124568 (pbk.)

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA786615 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014200212 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint --Devotion to.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

LC Class. No.: BT 645 / .O73 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 232.91