Main books:
Miri Rubin, Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (Penguin Books 2010): 3–424.
Stephen Shoemaker, Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion (Yale University Press 2016).
Articles and book chapters:
Thomas Arentzen, The Virgin in Song: Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017): 120–173.
Bridget Heal: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648 (Cambridge University Press 2007): 1–147.
Karoline Kjesrud, “Conceptions of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Western Scandinavia” in: Carlquist & Langum (eds.), Words and Matter. The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Parish Life, 87–103. (tilgjengelig på http://www.academia.edu/29436045/Conceptions_of_the_Virgin_Mary_in_Medieval_Western_Scandinavia._In_Words_and_Matter._The_Virgin_Mary_in_Late_Medieval_and_Early_Modern_Parish_Life._eds._Jonas_Carlquist_and_Virginia_Langum_Stockholm_2015
Robert Orsi, Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them (Princeton University Press, 2004) 48–72.
Vera Shevzov, Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2004): 217–260.
Tim Winter, “Mary in Islam” in Boss (ed.) Mary: The Complete Resource (Oxford University Press 2007), 479–502.
Students may be asked to read some additional material for their presentations (mandatory requirement) or for seminars.