Product Description
In this classic text in the field of Marian scholarship, Hilda Graef provides a look at the place of Mary in the Church, and a chronological overview of the history of Marian studies.
Translation of: Maria : eine Geschichte der Lehre und Verehrung
Reprint of edition originally published in two vols., 1963-1965
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
1. Mary in the scriptures -- 2. The early tradition of the church to the beginnings of the Nestorian controversy -- 3. The Council of Ephesus and after -- 4. The "Dark" and early Middle Ages -- 5. The twelfth century: early scholasticism: St. Bernard and the golden age of Mariology -- 6. From the rise of the mendicant orders to the eve of the Reformation