![]() ![]() No single narrative or analytical theme could ever explain the profusion of Marian devotion that Rubin documents. The heart of this book may be its description of the Western European Marian devotion of the Middle Ages, but its chronological and geographical span give it a significance that no more narrowly focused study could possibly have. Drawing with great sensitivity on a variety of sources-theological and devotional writings, music, poetry, and images-Rubin explores Mary’s significance not just for leading churchmen and nobles but also for ordinary laymen and -women. In twenty-three chapters, Rubin asks how and why Mary emerged from relative obscurity in the Gospels to become a “constant presence” (p. This is an astonishingly wide-ranging and detailed account of Marian devotion from the time of the early Church to the seventeenth century, with afterthoughts on Mary’s significance for the modern world. ![]()
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