>A query: has anyone any knowledge of where one should go to find out
>information about black Virgins - specifically in south Italy? Thanks.
>Pardon Tillinghast
A starting-point might be Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, _Black Madonnas :
Feminism, Religion, and Politics in Italy_, Boston : Northeastern
University Press, 1993, though its approach is sociological/anthropological
rather than historical as such.
Steven Botterill
Associate Professor of Italian Literature & Romance Philology
Chair, Department of Italian Studies
6303 Dwinelle Hall #2620
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2620
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