Sarah Jane Boss

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Books:

 

​[As editor] Mary: A resource book for study (London: Continuum, and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 hbk and 2009 pbk)

​Mary [in the series ‘New Century Theology’] (London: Continuum, 2004)

​Empress and Handmaid: On nature and gender in the cult of the Virgin Mary (London: Cassell, 2000)

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​Articles:

 

​‘Original Holiness: The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Catholic Theology of Nineteenth-Century Europe’, in Chris Maunder (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Virgin Mary Oxford: OUP, 2019.

​‘Mary’s virginity in the work of Ramon Llull’, in Lesley Twomey, et al. (eds.), Christ, Mary and the Saints: Theorizing our spiritual past Martlesham (Suffolk): Boydell and Brewer [forthcoming].

​‘Deification: The Mariology of the ordinary faithful’, in New Blackfriars, vol.98:1074 (March 2017), 188-202 [paper invited by the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain].

​‘The nature of Nature in Ramon Llull’, in Penelope Dransart (ed.): Living Beings Oxford: Berg (for the Association of Social Anthropologists), 2013.

​‘Llull’s Llibre de Santa Maria: Theodicy, ontology and initiation’, Studia Lulliana, 51 (2011), pp.25-51.

​‘Wisdom’s House: Abbott David’s commissioning of the Elder Lady Chapel’, in Jon Cannon and Elizabeth Williamson (eds.): An Enigma Explored: The Medieval Art, Architecture and History of Bristol Cathedral, 2 Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011, pp.61-68. [Invited paper given to conference at the University of Bristol]

​‘ “Black but beautiful”: The black madonnas of Western Europe and the biblical commentaries of St. Bernard of Clairvaux’, in Christine E.Joynes and Christopher C.Rowland (eds.): From the Margins II: Women of the New Testament and their Afterlives Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009.

​‘Alcuin of York on Wisdom and Mary: Texts and buildings’, in Zoë Devlin and Caroline N.J. Holas-Clark: Approaching Interdisciplinarity: Archaeology, History and the Study of Early Medieval Britain, c.400-1100, BAR British Series 486, 2009, pp.62-71.