Is the founder of the Ideas Roadshow and host of the Ideas Roadshow Podcast. How did the Virgin Mary, about whom very little is said in the Gospels, become one of the most powerful and complex religious figures in the world To arrive at the answers to this far-reaching question, one of our foremost medieval historians, Miri Rubin, investigates the ideas, practices, and images that have developed around the figure of Mary from the earliest decades of Christianity to. After behind-the-scenes insights into Miri Rubin’s career path which led her from chemistry to working in an orthopaedic hospital to studying medieval history with a ‘cultural anthropologist” persuasion to the subject of medieval Christianity, this wide-ranging conversation covers several books that Miri Rubin has written, including The Life and Passion of William of Norwich Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary Emotion and Devotion: The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction and Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe. Religion and Culture: A Historian’s Tale is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London. 'Miri Rubins Mother of God is an intellectually exuberant tour-de-force.
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