Alone of all her sex : the myth and the cult of the Virgin Mary / Marina Warner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Marina, 1946-

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Mary.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xxv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 400, xix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 12 unnumbered pages of partly colored plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

[First American edition].

Manufacture:

Brattleboro, Vermont : Composed, printed, and bound by American Book-Stratford Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [distributed by Random House, Inc.], 1976.

Contents:

Prologue

Part One. Virgin. Mary in the Gospels; Mary in the Apocrypha; Virgin birth; Second Eve; Virgins and martys

Part Two. Queen. The Assumption; Maria Regina

Part Three. Bride. The song of songs; Troubadours; Madonna; Dante, Beatrice, and the Virgin Mary

Part Four. Mother. Let it be; The milk of Paradise; Mater Dolorosa; The penitent whore; The immaculate conception; The moon and the stars

Part Five. Intercessor. Growth in every thing; Icons and relics; Visions, the rosary, and war; The hour of our death. Epilogue.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

"First American Edition."

"The text of this book was set on the Linotype in Garamond, a modern rendering of the type first cut by Claude Garamond (1510-1561)."--A Note on the Type.

"Design by Gwen Townsend."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-398) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

ISBN:

0394499131

OCLC:

2283826