Table of Contents

Preface to the new edition
Author's Note
Prologue
Part One: Virgin
1: Mary in the Gospels
2: Mary in the Apocrypha
3: Virgin Birth
4: Second Eve
5: Virgins and Martyrs
Part Two: Queen
6: The Assumption
7: Maria Regina
Part Three: Bride
8: The Song of Songs
9: Troubadors
10: Madonna
11: Dante, Beatrice, and the Virgin Mary
Part Four: Mother
12: Let It Be
13: The Milk of Paradise
14: Mater Dolorosa
15: The Penitent Whore
16: The Immaculate Conception
17: The Moon and the Stars
Part Five: Intercessor
18: Growth in Every Thing
19: Icons and Relics
20: Visions, The Rosary, and War
21: The Hour of Our Death
Epilogue
Appendix A: St Luke's Magnificat
Appendix B: A Muddle of Marys
Chronology

About the Author

Marina Warner's award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales include Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (1985) and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998). Her Clarendon Lectures Fantastic Metamorphoses; Other Worlds were published in 2002; her essays on literature and culture were collected in Signs & Wonders (2000), and Phantasmagoria, a study of spirits and
technology, appeared in 2006.
Marina Warner was created a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French in 2002, and a Commendatore by the Italians in 2005. She was awarded the Warburg Prize in Germany in 2004, and is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is Professor of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and President of the British Comparative Literature Association. In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Oxford gave her an Honorary Doctorate in
2005.