Mary Liane speaks with Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University about the place of Mary, mother of Jesus, in history and culture. Pelikan's major work on the virgin, "Mary Through the Centuries" has just been released in paperback (Yale U. Press).

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December 27, 199812:00 AM ET

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Liane speaks with Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University about the place of Mary, mother of Jesus, in history and culture. Pelikan's major work on the virgin, "Mary Through the Centuries" has just been released in paperback (Yale U. Press).