Mary: The Complete Resource by Sarah Jane Boss, ed.This handbook on the history and contemporary practice of the cult of the Virgin Mary gives overviews of particular areas of study—both historical and thematic—together with texts from primary sources and important scholarly articles, some of which appear in English for the first time.
The Oxford Handbook of Mary (Online) by Chris Maunder (Editor)Offers an interdisciplinary guide to Marian Studies, including chapters on textual, literary, and media analysis; theology; Church history; art history; studies on devotion in a variety of forms; cultural history; folk tradition; gender analysis; apparitions and apocalypticism.
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium: Virgin Mary (Online) by Alexander P. Kazhdan (Editor)The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium is a three-volume, comprehensive dictionary of Byzantine civilization. Non-circulating copies are available at the Classics library, Divinity Trowbridge Reference Room, Haas, and SML, but the link provided above goes to the entry on the "Virgin Mary", which is accessible to YUL users online through Oxford Reference.
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity: Mary, the Blessed Virgin (Online) by Oliver Nicholson (Editor)The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity covers history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD. A non-circulating copy is available at the Classics library, but the link provided above goes to the entry on "Mary, the Blessed Virgin", which is accessible to YUL users online through Oxford Reference.