I don't know the answer to your question, but since you started with Bede,
you might have a look in Mary Clayton, _The Cult of the Virgin Mary in
Anglo-Saxon England_. I don't have the date but it's Cambridge UP, late
1980's I think.
Philip Rusche
UNLV
> Dear List Members,
> This may very well be a naive or silly question, but it has never
> occurred to me before. I was reading recently a passage of Bede
> where he mentions Mary as "the Mother of God", period. He doesn't
> even mention her name. This, I believe, was always the practice in
> the Greek east and still is in the Orthodox churches and undoubtedly
> springs from the declaration of Mary as the Theotokos at the Council
> of Ephesus in 431. My question is, when did she begin to be called
> "the Virgin Mary"? And were there other appelations used during the
> Middle Ages? Other names that spring to mind are "Notre Dame" and
> "Madonna".
> Curiously,
> Jim Bugslag
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