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Mary (Virgin Mary)

Ashe, Geoffrey. The Virgin. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.

Brown, Raymond E., ed. Mary in the New Testament: A Collaborative Assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic Scholars. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1978.

Carroll, Michael P. The Cult of the Virgin Mary: Psychological Origins. Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Clayton, Mary. The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Durham, Michael S. Miracles of Mary: Apparitions, Legends, and Miraculous Works of the Blessed Virgin Mary. London: HarperCollins, 1995.

Graef, Hilda. Mary. A History of Doctrine and Devotion. London and New York: Sheed &Ward, 1963-1965.

Miegge, Giovanni. The Virgin Mary: The Roman Catholic Marian Doctrine. London: The Lutterworth Press, 1955. Translated by Waldo Smith.

Reuther, Rosemary Radford. Mary: the Feminine Face of the Church. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1977.

Warner, Marina. Alone of all her Sex: the Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary. London: Picador, 1985.

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Aveling, J. H. C. The Handle and the Axe: the Catholic Recusants in England from Reformation to Emancipation. London: Blond & Briggs, 1976. Examination of English Catholic history from the break with Rome to emancipation, following the parallel strands of clergy, gentry, and ordinary folk.

Bossy, John. The English Catholic Community 1570-1850. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1975. Superb study emphasising the historical continuity of the English Catholic community.

Carmody, John Tully, and Carmody, Denise Lardner. Contemporary Catholic Theology. San Francisco; London: Harper & Row, Clear and comprehensive exposition of current doctrine.

Catholic University of America, eds. The New Catholic Encyclopedia. McGraw-Hill, 1967-1979. Authoritative articles on Catholic liturgical life, thought, and history.

Hastings, Adrian, ed. Modern Catholicism: Vatican II and After. SPCK, 1991. Catholic Church doctrines today.

Magill, Frank N., ed. Masterpieces of Catholic Literature in Summary Form. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Summarises and evaluates history, philosophy, theology, and spiritual literature.

Nevins, Albert J., ed. Maryknoll Catholic Dictionary. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1965. Definitions and descriptions of popular phrases, the church in different states and countries, the Bible.

Noel, Gerard, and Stanford, Peter. The Anatomy of the Catholic Church: Before and Since John Paul II. London: Michael Russell, Traces the church's history since 1965.

Norman, E. R. Roman Catholicism in England: from the Elizabethan Settlement to the Second Vatican Council. Oxford University Press, 1985. Important concise survey by leading Anglican historian.