Dissertations / Theses: 'Oblates of the Virgin Mary'

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Pierce, Bethany M. "Courting the Virgin Mary." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154462978.

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Cassidy, Thomas M. "Districts and district superiors within the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ28329.pdf.

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Bates, Stephen. "Re-imagining the Virgin Mary in Reformation England." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/62111/.

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This thesis is an interdisciplinary examination of the place of the Virgin Mary in the English reformations of the sixteenth century. Situated at the crossroads of cultural and social history, it engages with the post-revisionist debate within Reformation studies. It seeks to move post-revisionism forward by suggesting that the versatility and vitality of late medieval Mariology enabled reformers, Catholic and Protestant, to select and reject from a basket of possibilities. Consequently it contends that the fissures that had opened up by the time of the Elizabethan settlement had essentially developed along pre-existing fault lines. The first chapter explores the place of the Virgin in the late medieval context. It examines her theological significance, the way ordinary people related to her and, consequently, how they represented her in English parishes. It argues that the Virgin occupied a position which supported both affective and effective piety. The second chapter considers specific ways in which existing Mariological tropes were unsettled by the critiques of Catholic evangelicals, Renaissance humanists and Lollards. It demonstrates that the Virgin was a fluid symbol and suggests some possible trajectories that may have been followed had it not been for the rupture of the Reformation. It contends that the key focus of those advocating reform was the spiritual integrity of devotees. The third chapter investigates developing evangelical Mariology and the subsequent attempts at magisterial reform under Henry VIII and Edward VI. It explores the impact of iconoclasm on parish piety and the transformation of the Virgin into an ordinary woman. It argues for important continuities in the Protestant re-imagination of the Virgin. The final chapter looks at the policies of Mary Tudor and considers how the Virgin was re-imagined in a restored Catholic context. It contributes to the debate on the nature of Mary’s religious programme and assesses the appropriation of Mariological tropes to endorse England’s first Queen regnant. It contends that the reign’s legacy enabled the Elizabethan settlement to reject aspects of the Virgin as foreign, reshaping English identity.

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Rehatta, Gabriel. "The meaning of the Dormition of Virgin Mary." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Black, David S. "An analysis of the teaching of the Virgin Mary's co-redemptive work with Christ." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Luzyte, Rasa. "A thealogy of Mary : the non-Christian myth of Mary, the shadow of Mary and an individual connection to the divine self through Mary." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20251.

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My work on the thealogy of Mary conveys a largely subjective way of thinking, it does not claim to present the view of any group, and it does not profess a theoretical agenda for a cult or a religious movement of Mary. The framework of this work is grounded in symbolic (legends, fairy tales and images), psychological (the structure of the psyche according to Carl Gustav Jung: the Self, the conscious, the unconscious, the Shadow) and imaginative (individual interpretations of narratives and images) spheres that are combined with feminist spirituality theories, religious philosophy and literary analysis. In my thesis, I offer a non-Christian myth of Mary which I form out of the folklore narratives about Mary. In my work, Mary is understood as the female divine archetype on the collective level, and as an expression of the Self on the individual level. Following Jung’s theory, the archetypes are forms and not contents, that is, an archetype can be comparable to an empty shell, which we fill with our own experience or with narratives that are meaningful to us. I take the image of Mary out of the Roman Catholic context and give it a new mythological narrative. This means to me a possibility not only to acquire a non-Christian myth of Mary but also to develop an individual relationship with the divine in its female personification. On the collective level, the thealogy of Mary creates a spiritual and psychological sphere in which the female divine has a possibility to outweigh the one-sidedness of the past few thousand years of the male predominance in the religious philosophy in the West.

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Fernandes, Flynn M. "Mary: Co-redemptrix, mediatrix of all graces, and advocate of the people of God: An interdisciplinary exposition and evaluation of the proposed fifth Marian dogma." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:105006.

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Thesis advisor: Margaret E. Guider
Thesis advisor: Michael Simone
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology

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Gallagher, Laura. "The Virgin Mary in the early modern literary imagination." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601481.

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This thesis examines literary appropriations of the Virgin Mary in the early modem period to argue that she continued to occupy the early modern imagination. The Virgin Mary operates as a lieu de memoire, recalling the Catholic medieval past, but she was refashioned in new terms in the early modern period to ruminate on issues such as mnemonic prayer, material spirituality, motherhood and breastfeeding, female voice, appropriate grief and female authority. By reading a variety of genres, written by both men and women, Protestant and Catholic, from across the period, the thesis argues for the Virgin's sustained relevance. It demonstrates how the Virgin was contested and adapted for various ideological ends. often against the customary religious and gendered understandings of her significance. The Virgin Mary’s body is central to literary appropriations and the thesis argues that Marian imagery retained potency, relevancy and power precisely because of the figure's controversial femininity and her bodily status as virgin mother

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Tulanowski, Elaine G. "The iconography of the assumption of the Virgin in Italian paintings : 1480-1580 /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487265555438371.

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Barker, Mary Christine. "A Disquieting Presence: The Virgin Mary in Rembrandt's 'Protestant' Art." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/6349.

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The identification of Rembrandt as a ��Protestant�� artist has, since the middle of the nineteenth century, defined and directed analytical perspective of his biblical works. In the initial stages of Rembrandt��s reinvention as representative of the Protestant culture of his age, religion was not important in terms of the art produced; it was an indication of political identity. A recognition of the importance of Rembrandt��s religious beliefs to his biblical works led later art historians to define these works in terms of a Protestant identity. Rembrandt was a ��Protestant��; he was ipso facto Protestant artist. To substantiate this claim, academic research has sought to identify those particular characteristics which are thought to be Protestant and which can be readily identified in Rembrandt��s work. There is a substantial body of work within Rembrandt��s biblical oeuvre which challenges that paradigm. These are works which show the Virgin Mary, a figure largely marginalised in Protestant belief. These are generally acknowledged as ��Catholic�� or ��made for a Catholic audience��, but they are analysed either as eccentricities or as Catholic subjects which Rembrandt has manipulated to allow for a Protestant understanding. No attempt has been made to place these works within the Catholic tradition to which they belong. This thesis hopes to redress the balance by examining a largely un-researched body of Rembrandt��s Marian work. The first section surveys the notion of ��Protestant�� art and those writers who claim to recognise such a phenomenon in Rembrandt��s work. It examines the place of the Virgin Mary in Post-Reformation Protestant ideology and reviews Rembrandt��s history within a spectrum of religious beliefs. Finally it takes an overview of the presence of the Virgin Mary in Rembrandt��s oeuvre, seeking possible inspiration and explanation from the events in his daily life. The second section analyses six representative works in order to show that these Marian subjects are not religious works manipulated to a Protestant understanding but are artworks that show, both overtly and covertly, that Rembrandt was aware of and actively acknowledged the place of the Virgin Mary, both in the Catholic visual tradition and in the contemporary Catholic theology of his age.

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Nachef, Antoine B. S. O. "Mary: virgin mother in the thought of the Cappadocian Fathers." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430404478.

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Jolly, Anna. "Madonnas by Donatello and his circle." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260560.

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Morrow, Bethany. "Eve, the Virgin, and the Magdalene women and redemption in the early church /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1416.

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Wright, Mary. "The canonical development of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7574.

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Mulhern, Kathleen Ann. "Saint Bernard, the Virgin, and women twelfth century womanhood in history and literature /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Warner, Martin Clive. "Virginity matters : power and ambiguity in the attraction of the Virgin Mary." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3140/.

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This thesis seeks to account for virginity as the source of Mary's power to attract. The point of departure is the syncretistic culture of the classical world. Here, patristic use of Old Testament typology recognises the distinctive work of grace in Mary's virginity, thus allowing it to become the determining quality by which her experience is subsequently perceived and universalised. The thesis divides its exploration into the three categories by which Mary is portrayed in the gospels - woman, spouse, mother - concluding its investigation with the end of the nineteenth century and its new understanding of human identity in gender and sexuality. In each category the thesis attempts to identify ways in which the attraction of virginity has functioned through ambiguity (Mary as virgin and mother, mother and spouse of her son) as a positive quality of potency and freedom, rather than as a strictly biological human condition with negative association in contemporary culture. In order to assess the extent of Mary's attraction in periods that lacked the modern forms of articulating self-awareness, the thesis has considered the fabric of devotional practice in religious texts, art, drama and ritual, seeking to allow the perceptions of earlier periods of history (a medium in itself) to challenge our own. As expressions of attraction to Mary, these media have yielded an insight into the power of virginity as a statement of paradisal, heavenly life accessed by grace through male and female human experience. They have also shown virginity to be a source of power that can be exploited for political ends. Finally, the thesis suggests that the power of Mary's virginity has been subversive and liberating in Church and society, thus indicating its neglected significance as a statement about the ambiguity of our nature as human, gendered, and sexual beings.

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Carinci, Eleonora. "'Lives of the Virgin Mary' by women writers in post-Tridentine Italy." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283855.

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Maunder, Christopher John. "Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in modern European Roman Catholicism (from 1830)." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1991. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/419/.

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Apparition phenomena, particularly those that claim Mary as their object, are still very influential in modern Roman Catholicism. The first half of this thesis is concerned with the context of these visions in their European form, and how the Catholic Church promotes some of them into the heart of its devotional life. On the whole, this first part takes a phenomenological view, simply looking at this process in its own right, although there are also some sociological insights and critical remarks. The author, as a Catholic devotee of the marian cult himself, is attempting to write a theological critique of the visions as a member of the pilgrim community, using a broader range of academic tools than is usually employed in such a task. In the second half of the thesis, therefore, a theoretical model is constructed that provides a new understanding of the phenomena. This model has four elements: firstly, the humanistic psychological, in which marian apparitions are compared with other such phenomena and considered from the view of depth psychology. The major factors which distinguish them are the intensity of the experience and the ecclesial context. Secondly, ecclesiological: the visions cannot be considered as extras or alternatives to the everyday life of the Catholic Church, but as its own 'epiphenomena'. Thirdly, mariological: the apparitions show evidence of 'high' mariology, although this is qualified because of Mary's apparent powerlessness in the face of God's judgement. In the modern era, the orthodox christocentric emphasis is more pronounced, but this does not appear to be a wholly spontaneous feature. Fourthly, and finally, biblical: the Christian revelation is rooted in history, and it is this which must be primary and not the archetypal, universal patterns of the psyche. Therefore the objective element in apparitions, if such exists, is, from a theological perspective, the Mary of history and her part in the events at the heart of the Christian understanding of salvation.

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Karterouli, Konstantina. "The Virgin of Dom Rupert: Image, Function, Assimilation." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11699.

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This dissertation examines a Mosan stone relief of the Virgin and Child Enthroned housed in the Grand Curtius Museum in Liège that has not yet been the subject of detailed analysis. This study focuses on the formal and iconographic aspects of the relief. It discusses the novel image of the Virgin and relates it to developments in medieval art during the late twelfth and the early thirteenth centuries, establishing a date for the relief to that period.
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Gresko, Jacqueline. "Gender and mission the founding generations of the Sisters of Saint Ann and the oblates of Mary Immaculate in British Columbia, 1858-1914 /." Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada, 2000. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0018/NQ46349.pdf.

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Beattie, Christina Jane. "God's mother, Eve's advocate : a gynocentric refiguration of Marian symbolism in engagement with Luce Irigaray." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/a16930db-a3b7-4f86-ba6f-df5350a54fed.

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Bohlander, Ruth Ann. "Mother of God, Cease Sorrow!: The Significance of Movement in a Late Byzantine Icon." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/105691.

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Art History
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The relationships between movement, emotion, and ritual communion in Byzantium have drawn the attention of art historians in recent years. While Henry Maguire has considered many facets of this subject, a monumental Late Byzantine icon, the Two-Sided Icon with the Virgin Pausolype, Feast Scenes, the Crucifixion and Prophets, suggests others. While the catalog entry by Annemarie Weyl Carr in Byzantium: Faith and Power remains the only published discussion of this particular icon, or even specifically of the Pausolype ("cease sorrow!") iconographic type, I believe that this image contributes significantly to our understanding of Late Byzantine culture and liturgical practice. Careful study of this particular icon encourages a consideration of the problematic subject of emotion, and its interactions with movement, ritual and art. The paucity of evidence makes it difficult to address specific devotional practices associated with this particular object, although some observations can be made. I am able, however, to align it with its iconographic antecedents and establish contemporary relationships, illuminating aspects of its original function.
Temple University--Theses

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Hebbard, Matthew S. "The virgin of Guadalupe and Mexican religious belief." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Kluj, Wojciech. "Forms of work of the oblates of Mary Immaculate among Polish immigrants in the prairies of Canada (1898-1926)." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9771.

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The theme of the dissertation is "Forms of Work of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate Among Polish Immigrants in the Prairies of Canada (1898-1926)." The work is presented in four chapters. The first one gives a general background of the situation which existed at the time. The second chapter examines the work done in the parish of Holy Ghost in Winnipeg, which was the first Polish parish on the prairies. The third chapter shows the situation existing in the prairies in rural areas, where there were many Polish immigrants. The fourth chapter investigates the Oblates' work in other different forms, that means the involvement in the Polish schools, in the apostolate of the press, and in formation of different associations and societies.

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Nuttli, Emily E. "“Fixing the Italian Problem”: Archbishop of New Orleans John W. Shaw and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, 1918-1933." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2178.

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In 1918, Archbishop Shaw invited the Texas Catholic religious order, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, to New Orleans to manage the St. Louis Cathedral and its filial parish for Southern Italians, St. Mary’s Church. This thesis will look at the personalities and preferentialism that affected this early 20th century transfer of religious power from secular priests to a religious order. Comparing the language used by Archbishop Shaw in correspondence with Oblate Fathers with the language he used with his secular priests will determine that Shaw displayed favoritism in his decision to invite the Oblates. This decision was affected by four primary factors: Shaw’s prior relationship with the Oblates as Bishop of San Antonio, his concerns with archdiocesan finances, his perceived threat of encroaching Protestantism, and politics of discontent amongst his secular clergy. Shaw’s distinct idealistic pragmatism shows the dynamic nature of the institution of the Catholic Church in Louisiana.

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Mills, Matthew. "Behold your mother : the Virgin Mary in English monasticism, c. 1050-c. 1200." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c72df193-cdbe-4fc1-b59f-714015846599.

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This thesis examines the place of the Virgin Mary in the intellectual culture of Benedictine and Cistercian monasticism in medieval England, between c. 1050 and c. 1200. Drawing high profile thinkers, including Anselm of Canterbury (d. 1109), into dialogue with lesser known figures, it reveals the richness of monastic contributions to Marian doctrine and devotion, in many cases for the first time. The shape of the analysis is provided by five key 'moments' from Mary's life, unfolded consecutively across six chapters. Chapters 1 and 2, on Mary's conception, reveal a confident and pioneering monastic culture which drove the evolution of an obscure Anglo-Saxon feast into a theological doctrine, despite fierce opposition at home and abroad. Chapter 3 explains how Mary's virginity was adopted as a blueprint for the monastic life by Ælred of Rievaulx (d. 1167) and Baldwin of Forde (d. 1190), both of whom were inspired by its fruitfulness in the Incarnation of Christ. Chapter 4 brings to light the contributions made to exegesis of the Song of Songs as a poem about Mary's humility by the mysterious Honorius Augustodunensis (d. 1140) and John of Forde (d. 1214). Chapter 5, on the divine maternity, demonstrates how English monastic theologians gave new life to understanding of Mary as Theotokos ('God-bearer') by drawing out its significance for their own spiritual maternity as leaders of religious communities. Chapter 6 shows how Mary was believed to have entered into the pain of the Crucifixion through her own spiritual martyrdom, and how monks sought to share the experience with her by a communion of charity. These and other insights offer a compelling glimpse into the culture of English monasticism between the demise of the Anglo-Saxons and the advent of the friars. Inspired by a desire to understand and ultimately to know Mary, Benedictine and Cistercian monks produced theological and spiritual works which were imaginative, often intimate and occasionally pioneering. Most of all, they were profoundly pastoral, composed in the belief that Mary could inspire and support those who had embarked upon the monastic via perfectionis.

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Paganopoulos, Michelangelo. "Land of the Virgin Mary : an ethnography of monastic life on Mount Athos." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://research.gold.ac.uk/6537/.

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This thesis is an ethnographic account of contemporary monastic life in two monasteries of Mount Athos, the ‘Garden of the Virgin Mary’ (o kipos tis Parthenou). Athos is an autonomous Christian Orthodox monastic republic of twenty monasteries with only male monks, situated in northern Greece. The material is based on fieldwork carried out between 2002 and 2004 in the monasteries of Vatopaidi and Esfigmenou. By focusing on Christian monastic life, the thesis aims to contribute to the opening of a cultural and historical study of Christianity. It covers a number of themes, beginning with how the notion of ‘virginity’ (parthenia) informs ideas about the landscape and the daily life of the monks, as well as providing a central point of reference in the process of striving to become a monk in Vatopaidi. This is explored through a detailed account of practices of faith, such as ordinations, prayer, and confessions, focusing on the Vatopaidian notion of the ‘economy of passions’. Through this, the thesis considers the personal and communal regimes of life and prayer, obedience and labour in the monastery. Further, the thesis explores the organization of time and space in Vatopaidi, drawing on ideas about tradition and the unchanging quality of time in the monastery, and of the importance of private and collective practices. Finally, the thesis compares the social life and values of Vatopaidi to its rival neighbour Esfigmenou, which represents a contrasting and competing view of monastic life. The most salient differences over ‘matters of faith’ (themata pisteos) are a contrasting relationship to the landscape, different sets of priorities and understanding of the aims and nature of monastic life, and a contestation of the same tradition based on a different way of counting time. Externally, Esfigmenou has a very different attitude to Vatopaidi towards recent changes on the Mount, such as its attitude to the importation of technology, the rise of religious tourism, and impact of EU funding. It maintains an extremist political agenda within the Orthodox world, and consequently, a different set of motivations for becoming a monk in this particular monastery. Here too, the contrast between internal and external is fundamental to the identity of Esfigmenou, even though it is approached as an explicit criticism of Vatopaidi. Interestingly however, both monasteries find themselves entangled in conflict-ridden relationships with the Greek state. In this way, the material investigates how the external vocation of each monastery is connected to their respective internal regimes; the material also examines the agency of the monks and their impact in public life, as well as, the heterogeneity in the understanding of the aims and priorities of Athonian monastic life.

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Koperski, Andrew Robert. "Breaking with Tradition: Jerome, the Virgin Mary, and the Troublesome “Brethren” of Jesus." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1524837953738555.

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Beshay, Michael. "The Virgin Mary in Ritual in Late Antique Egypt: Origins, Practice, and Legacy." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu15888899395967.

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O'Cinnsealaigh, Benedict D. "The Marian theology of Adam of Dryburgh." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1431440615.

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Bartel, Kate Patricia. "Portal of the skies four scenes in the musical life of the Virgin Mary, ca. 1500-1650 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1324371221&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Higgins, Sabrina. "Embodying the Virgin: The Physical Materialization of the Cult of Mary in Late Antique Egypt (Fifth-Ninth Centuries CE)." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31923.

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This is a study of the physical manifestation of the cult of the Virgin Mary in Late Antique Egypt, that is, of the point at which Marian veneration, which scholars generally agree coalesced in the fifth century, spilled over into the physical sphere. Three diverging source materials (papyri/inscriptions, archaeology and iconography) are explored in order to answer the central question, which asks: to what extent does the evidence for the physical materialization of the cult of Mary reflect its geographical and chronological diffusion in Late Antique Egypt? Each of the sources materials are collected and analyzed in an independent chapter. The study begins with the papyrological/epigraphical evidence, as it represents the largest body of materials and offers the most substantial datable evidence. Although the papyri and inscriptions are not themselves tangible manifestations of the cult of Mary, they nevertheless mention at least 23 churches or monasteries that were dedicated to her. In Chapter 2, the extant archaeological evidence supplements the data collected in the textual materials by providing an analysis of the layout and iconographical programmes of the few churches of Mary that are actually preserved. Chapter 3 collects 43 wall paintings that depict Mary and analyzes their varying iconographic patterns and immediate spatial contexts. The individual source materials are then brought together for a broader geographical and chronological investigation, which demonstrates that despite the assumed presence of a cult of Mary by the fifth century, this was only the starting point for the consolidation and diffusion of her cult, which reached its peak in the sixth and, especially, the seventh century. This study is the first synthesis of the physical output of the cult of Mary in Late Antique Egypt and thus advances our knowledge of her integration into the society of Christian Egypt on both the chronological and topographical axes. As such, it is also of importance to studies of her cult elsewhere in the Late Antique world, where sources may not be as plentiful and varied.

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Scammell, Jennifer F. "Domesticating the Virgin : vernacular depictions of Mary and their reception in late medieval society." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1894/.

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This thesis is concerned with the didactic function of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century vernacular religious literature and art in contemporary medieval English society, and particularly the ways in which texts and images participate in emergent lay religious culture and inform social practices of the time. The focus is on apocryphal and legendary depictions of episodes in the Life of the Virgin Mary in vernacular works of the later Middle Ages and special consideration is given to the ways in which certain female audiences in England may have received and responded to Mary narratives. An introductory chapter outlines the process and means by which biblical and extra-biblical knowledge was disseminated to the late medieval laity via the range of literary and pictorial material brought into comparison in this thesis. Additionally, the introductory chapter surveys existing research on the socio-economic and spiritual circumstances that made accounts of Mary’s life particularly useful to ‘merchant-class’ wives whose way of life, it is argued, is emblematic of change in the period. Five central chapters each provide interpretations of common motifs in a key event in Christian history involving Mary and assess their engagement with the experiences and aspirations of lay unlearned audiences, primarily (though not exclusively) domesticated bourgeois women. The events referred to and discussed in chronological order in this thesis are the Annunciation, Nativity, Passion of Christ, and the Death, Assumption and Coronation of Mary. The material analysed comprises biblical drama, sermons, poetry, lyrics, wall-paintings, manuscript illustrations, and tapestries. A number of core works are referred to throughout and, as detailed in the introduction, include texts such as the four extant mystery cycle plays, Nicholas Love’s Mirror, John Mirk’s Festial, the Cursor Mundi, and art works such as contained in the Biblia Pauperum, and books of hours.

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Tsironis, Niki J. "The lament of the Virgin Mary from Romanos the Melode to George of Nicodemia." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-lament-of-the-virgin-mary-from-romanos-the-melode-to-george-of-nicodemia(c652c3c6-3d01-41c8-be4a-a575ae733a05).html.

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Espinosa, Ruben. "Shakespeare's Marian refractions: Shaping masculine identity via the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England." Connect to online resource, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3303838.

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Foran, Timothy P. ""Les gens de cette place": Oblates and the Evolving Concept of Métis at Île-à-Crosse, 1845-1898." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19914.

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This dissertation examines the construction and evolution of categories of indigeneity within the context of the Oblate (Roman Catholic) apostolate at Île-à-Crosse in present-day north-western Saskatchewan between 1845 and 1898. While focusing on one central mission station, this study illuminates broad historical processes that informed Oblate perceptions and impelled their evolution over a fifty-three-year period. In particular, this study illuminates processes that shaped Oblate concepts of sauvage and métis. It does this through a qualitative analysis of missionary correspondence, mission records and published reports. In the process, this dissertation challenges the orthodox notion that Oblate commentators simply discovered and described a singular, empirically existing and readily identifiable Métis population. Rather, this dissertation contends that Oblates played an important role in the conceptual production of les métis.

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Duricy, Michael P. "Mary in Film: an Analysis of Cinematic Presentations of the Virgin Mary from 1897-1999: a Theological Appraisal of a Socio-Cultural Reality." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1427818757.

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Andrews, Johansson Ann-Katrin. "Tropes for the proper of the mass, 4 : The feasts of the blessed Virgin Mary." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för franska, italienska och klassiska språk, 1998. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-45041.

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Barber, Charles Edward. "Image and cult : studies in the representation of the Virgin Mary in early medieval art." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261573.

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Calloway, Donald H. M. I. C. "Purest of all lilies: the Virgin Mary in the spirituality of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1431436028.

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Armstrong, Christopher R. "Under the veil of the Virgin: the gradually developing relationship of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face to the Blessed Virgin Mary." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430298748.

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Scherschligt, Michael A. "To Jesus through Mary: history and theology." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1431444140.

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Duggan, Paul E. "The Assumption dogma: some reactions and ecumenical implications in the thought of English-speaking theologians." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430383403.

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Larocca, Grosso Antonio de Jesus S. M. C. "La maternidad espiritual de Maria: acontecimiento, permanencia y actualizacion de su presencia." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430400296.

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Ziegler, Alexandra. "Divinity & Destiny: Marian Imagery in Rubens' Life of Marie de' Medici." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19332.

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In 1622, the Dowager Queen of France, Marie de' Medici, had recently returned to Paris after a period of exile imposed by her son, Louis XIII, and commissioned a monumental cycle of images from Peter Paul Rubens to decorate the gallery of her freshly constructed Luxembourg Palace. The contract for the commission tasked Rubens with painting the “illustrious life and heroic deeds” of Marie de' Medici. This thesis argues that alongside the classical and the historical, Rubens employed a specifically Catholic visual language to create a painted panegyric of a heroic female sovereign. In doing so, Rubens linked Marie de' Medici with the Virgin Mary through compositional resonances and a personal iconography developed for the queen throughout her life in popular images and literary tributes. In the Medici Cycle, the maternal, virginal, and heroic virtues embodied by the Virgin served as justification for Marie de' Medici’s sovereignty and her reconciliation with Louis.

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Curwen, Emma. "Mother, wife, temptress, virgin and tyrant defining images of feminine power in medieval queenship and modern politics /." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2009. http://165.236.235.140/lib/ECurwen2009.pdf.

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Chua, Celia M. I. C. "Mary, Chinese ancestor veneration, and the communion of saints." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430314354.

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Lenar, Richard E. "The Figure of Mary in Italian Opera: Theological Foundations and Technical Analysis." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1557504767565933.

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Gresko, Jacqueline. "Gender and mission : the founding generations of the Sisters of Saint Ann and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in British Columbia, 1858-1914." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0018/NQ46349.pdf.

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Kuhn, Maria Diane. "Mother Mary Comes to Me: The Stylistic Shift in Portrayals of Mary and her Adoration in Medieval Italy." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1619455685665479.

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