Mother of God: a history of the Virgin Mary

Part I. From Temple Maiden to the Bearer of God: to the Year 431:

1. The earliest glimpses of Mary

2. Mary in a Christian empire

3. Versions of Mary

4. Mary of the imperial state

Part II. From the Eastern Mediterranean to the Irish Sea: to the Year 1000:

5. Mary of the Christian empire

6. Beyond the Greek world

7. The emergence of European Mary

Part III. The Emergence of Mary's Hegemony: 1000-1200:

8. Mary of the cloister

9. Mary of polemic and encounter

10. Abundance and ubiquity

Part IV. Mary, Local and Familiar: 1200-1400:

11. Mary in liturgy, song and prayer

12. Mary, the friars, and the mother tongue

13. Teaching Mary in parish and home

14. Mary's miracles as reward and punishment

15. Mary at the foot of the cross

16. Mary and women, Mary and men

Part V. Mary as Queen and Reformer: 1400-1500:

17. Mary the sublime

18. Mary: unlike any other

19. Mary of parish practice and family life

20. Mary: a world of devotional possibilities

Part VI. Mary Reformed, Mary Global: 1500 and Beyond:

21. Mary of reform and Reformation

22. From Europe to the rest of the world

23. Mary in a world of neighbouring diversity

After Mary: a conclusion

A few comments on scholarship and reading