Sorry, if my response is late or if someone already answered, you might
check "La Vierge et les Saints au Moyen Ąge" by Regine Pernoud, ed
Bartillat
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> Van: Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
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> Datum: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 15:50:07 -0500
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> Onderwerp: Re: The Virgin Mary
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> Madonna & Notre Dame are translations of Domina nostra. When that became
> common I am unsure.
> Tom Izbicki
>
> At 02:41 PM 11/12/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>> Dear Jim
>>
>> You may wish to have a look at Marina Warner, "Alone of all her sex: the
>> myth and cult of the Virgin Mary", Vintage, 2000, first published about
>> 1975.
>> While it does not specifically answer your question, it does go into the
>> subject in some detail including giving Mary the title of "Aeiparthenos" at
>> the Council of Chalcedon and its consequences.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> John Hall
>>
>>> 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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