1. On Mary during the Middle Ages, see Clelia Maria Piastra, ed., Gli studi di mariologia medievale: Bilancio storiografico, Atti del I Convegno Mariologico […] Parma 7–8 novembre 1997 (Florence: SISMEL—Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001);
2. Miri Rubin, Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 303–12;
3. Marielle Lamy, “Marie toujours plus sainte,” in Structures et dynamiques religieuses dans les sociétés de l’Occident latin (1179–1449), ed. Marie Madeleine de Cevins and Jean-Michel Matz (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010), 321–37.
4. On the Virgin Mary in the Bible, see Pierre Grelot, “Marie (Vierge), I. Ecriture sainte,” in Dictionnaire de spiritualité (Paris: Beauchesne, 1980), 10:409–23;
5. and Mary Margaret Pazdan, “Mary, Mother of Jesus,” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. David Noel Freedman (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 4:584–86.