Table of Contents:
  • Mary's life. Surroundings and homeland ; Mary's life : the sources ; Mary's parents and the annunciation to Anne ; Birth and childhood ; The engagement to Joseph ; Annunciation and visitation ; Joseph's doubts ; The birth of Jesus ; Visit of the wise men from the east ; Flight into Egypt ; During Jesus' childhood in Israel and Joseph's death ; During Jesus' public life ; At the crucifixion and resurrection of her son ; Old age and descent into hell ; Annunciation of death, death, burial, assumption into heaven and coronation
  • Mary in literature. Lyric poetry of late antiquity and early middle ages ; Lives and legends of Mary ; Lyric poetry of the middle ages ; Modern and contemporary literature
  • My soul seeks the land of freedom. Feeling heaven ... in a thousand pictures ; The young girl ; The mother of God ; The old woman and the many names
  • Mary in music. Sacred music ; Secular music
  • Mary : dogmas, cult, customs. Mary's place in the history of dogma ; Marian feasts ; The many roles of Mary ; Virgin ; Immaculate conception ; New Eve ; Enraptured beloved ; Mater dolorosa ; Queen of heaven ; Helper and advocate ; The cult of Mary ; Relics and icons ; Churches dedicated to Mary ; Marian orders and religious communities ; Cult sites and places of pilgrimage ; Apparitions ; A far-flung name-- Mary in art. Images in cult, devotion, and art ; Luke paints the Madonna ; The development of the Marian image ; Byzantium ; Romanesque ; Gothic ; Renaissance ; Baroque ; The 18th century ; The 19th and 20th centuries.