Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, Paperback - Marina Warner

Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power, the...

Reducere. In the Gospel of Luke, we hear the angel's timeless proclamation to Mary, "Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among...

Reducere. THE PRAYER OF THE VIRGIN MARY is one of the priceless treasures freed from the British Museum by Ras Seymour Mclean, the Book Liberator. It was one...

Since the beginnings of Christianity, veneration of the Virgin Mary has played a fundamental role in the confession of the Christian faith. This fu...

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The extraordinary true story of John Smyth QC, a high-flying barrister who used his role in the church to abuse more than a hundred men and boys in...

Publisher: BookLife PublishingAuthor(s): Robin TwiddyNumber of pages: 32Collection: BookLife ReadersPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 148 x 210 x 7...

Reducere. There are many icons of Mary that show black faces and hands. In France, these are called Vierge Noires--Black Virgins. Elsewhere, may be called Bl...

The Cult of Seizure is a work of lyrical mesmerism and animal magnetism from acclaimed novelist and artist Rikki Ducornet, which displays a lush po...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional f...

Reducere. Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams rev...

Reducere. Why are over 500 of the world's images of the Madonna "black" or "dark"? And why are they so little known? A resurfacing of the powerful pagan godd...

Publisher: Greenwich Exchange LtdAuthor(s): Paul NewmanNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 210 x 137 x 14Cover type: Paperback / ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Faith JonesNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 33Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...

DescriptionMarina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female fo...

Reducere. It is the tragedy of Queen Mary that today, 450 years after her death, she remains the most hated, least understood monarch in English history--rem...

William Burroughs' life and art, situated in the context of the most radical and influential rock n roll stars of the late twentieth century

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Maureen FarrellNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 34Cover type: Paperb...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Faith JonesNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 237 x 162 x 39Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

Reducere. THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION of the Blessed Virgin Mary forms a cornerstone of God's plan for our salvation. Christ receives his human body from His M...

Reducere. Mary Jones was poor and illiterate. She learned to read and walked two miles to study a neighbor's Bible. A resolution became fixed in her mind tha...

Reducere. The Life of the Virgin, attributed to the 7th-century Church Father St. Maximus the Confessor, is the earliest full biography of Mary that has come...

Reducere. Since the beginning of storytelling, monsters of all kinds have inhabited myths, legends, folklore, and oral traditions, and they continue to thriv...

Reducere. It's been four hundred years in the making, but the story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo and her daughters, the Religious of the Virgin Mary,...

DescriptionThis book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe - the inte...

In this "scrupulously reported biography" (NPR) Jordan documents how Melania Trump had discussing being First Lady nearly two decades before she la...

Reducere. The sanctuary dedicated to Diana at Aricia flourished from the Bronze age to the second century CE. From its archaic beginnings in the wooded crate...

Reducere. Father Luigi Gambero, internationally-known expert on early Christianity, presents a comprehensive survey of the development of Marian doctrine and...

Reducere. DescriptionMythology gets real at Camp Hercules . . . The last thing Logan wants to do with his entire summer is go to some fake mythology-themed c...

Reducere. DescriptionOriginally published in 1915, this work is in conformity with the Decrees in place for the Little Office before Vatican II, which is the...

A wide-ranging study of the influential British novelist and public intellectual writer Marina Warner and the ways she negotiates the dangers of ap...

'An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind.' Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power...

Reducere. Mirror of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Psalter of Our Lady. This is two books combined into one by Saint Bonaventure. Saint Bonaventure begins with ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Mother Goddess has been a powerful figure throughout most of human history. This symbol is unquestionably the most persistent featur...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Gideon RachmanNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 241 x 32Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. To sing the praises of Mary, Bernard studies and contemplates her there where God has so perfectly revealed her, in the Scriptures, taking as his t...

This polemical exploration of art addresses the political and social in relation to the contextual and aesthetic, applying a literary perspective t...

An annotated anthology of the 150-year legacy of fact, fiction and 'fake news' surrounding the mysterious abandonment of the brigantine Mary Celest...

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