Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture is a book by Jaroslav Pelikan, published in New Haven, Yale University Press, 1996. It is based on the 1962 publication of Walter Tappolet, Das Marienlob der Reformatoren. Mary Through The Ages is a collection of texts from Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and Bullinger, whom Pelikan called, the Reformers in Praise of Mary.
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