Miri Rubin’s hefty book on the Virgin Mary is an intellectual romp through two thousand years of Christian history that seeks to explore the Virgin’s role in the shaping of Western culture, society, and religion. The story occupies a vast canvas, and Rubin combines sweeping historical vistas with lively anecdotes and stories of personal piety and economic largesse. As a Je (...)
November 20, 2009
Books
BVM from A to Z
Mother of God A History of the Virgin Mary Miri Rubin Yale University Press, $35, 560 pp.
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