Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-205) and index.
Contents
1. Early rosaries -- 2. The picture text and its "readers" -- 3. One for sorrow, two for joy : confraternity writings, the fifteen mysteries, and the observant reform -- 4. Secular love gardens, Marian iconography, and the names of the rose -- 5. Popular promotion and reception -- 6. Rosaries and the language of spirituality