Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Notes to the Reader
Invitatory
1. The Hours of the Virgin
2. Ave Maria
3. Antiphon and Psalm
4. Lesson and Response
5. Prayer
Compline: Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda and the Mystical City of God
Appendix: Handlist of Manuscripts and Printed Editions of Richard of Saint-Laurent’s De laudibus beatae Mariae virginis libri XII
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Scriptural Citations
Index of Manuscripts Cited
General Index

About the Author

Rachel Fulton Brown is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. She is the author of From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200 (2002) and coeditor of History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person (2007), both from Columbia University Press.

Reviews

A remarkable intellectual exploration fueled by a personal passion. -- Ann Astell, University of Notre Dame One of the most beautiful, well argued, and exciting pieces of Marian scholarship that I have read. -- Sarah Jane Boss, director of the Centre for Marian Studies