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For German reading people there are some:
Max Seidel, Ubera matris Die vielschichtige Bedeutung eines Symbols, 
in: Städel-Jahrbuch 6 (1977) 70ff.; Susan Marti und Daniela Mondini, 
„Ich manen dich der brüsten min, das du dem sünder wellest milte sin!“ 
Marienbrüste und Marienmilch im Heilsgeschehen, in: Himmel, Hölle, 
Fegefeuer. Das Jenseits im Mittelalter (hg. von P. Jezler, Zürich 
1994); Klaus Schreiner, „Deine Brüste sind süßer als Wein“. 
Ikonographie, religiöse Bedeutung und soziale Funktion eines 
Mariensymbols, in: Pictura quasi fictura. Forschungen des Instituts für 
Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit. Diskussionen und 
Materialien 1 (Wien 1996) 87ff.; cf. id., Maria. Jungfrau, Mutter, 
Herrscherin (München 1994) 196; very nice Incanto e anatomie del Seno. 
Catalog of an exhibition in the Palazzo Zabarella, Padua (ed. A. M. 
Pluchinotta, Mailand 1997).
But cf. also H. W. Müller, Isis mit dem Horuskinde, in: Münchner 
Jahrbücher 14 (1963); Lucia Langener, Isis lactans – Maria lactans. 
Untersuchungen zur koptischen Ikonographie (Diss. Münster 1995, 
Arbeiten zum spätantiken und koptischen Ägypten 9,  Altenberge 1996).

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Am 6. Feb 2004 um 15:18 schrieb Jim Bugslag:

> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and 
> culture
>
>> http://www.geocities.com/cdesastre20008/MariaIntercesora.htm
>
>> Amazing!
>>
>> I know lots of images of the Virgin showing Her breast to Christ in 
>> the Last Judgment, but no one
>> so provocative. She is almost naked and, besides, she's gazing to the 
>> spectator, not to His Son
>
> Dear Carlos,
> In many churches in Bretagne, there are Nativity scenes with naked 
> figures of the
> Virgin Mary.  We are obviously dealing with very different ideological 
> and moral
> attitudes towards the body in images like this.  I know of no studies 
> of this
> phenomenon, but I would certainly be interested in references, if 
> anyone knows of
> any.
> Cheers,
> Jim Bugslag
>
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