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The cult of saints and the Virgin Mary in medieval Scotland
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ISSN: 02619865 ISBN: 9781843835622 1843835622 9781846158544 1846158540 Year: 2010 Volume: 28 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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Of all the Celtic countries, Scotland has lacked the kind of scholarly attention that has been lavished fruitfully on Wales, Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany. And yet of all of them, Scotland offers the widest range of interfaces with broader work on the cult of saints. The papers presented here cover this territory very effectively.... [the book] brings together excellent studies that successfully explore the wide ramifications of the topic. Anyone with an interest in saints' cults will want this book. DAUVIT BROUN, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow. This volume examines the phenomena of the cult of saints and Marian devotion as they were manifested in Scotland, ranging from the early medieval period to the sixteenth century. It combines general surveys of the development of the study of saints in the early and later middle ages with more focused articles on particular subjects, including St Waltheof of Melrose, the obscure early medieval origins of the cult of St Munnu, the short-lived martyr cult of David, duke of Rothsay, and the Scottish saints included in the greatest liturgical compendium produced in late medieval Scotland, the Aberdeen breviary. The way in which Marian devotion permeated late medieval Scottish society is discussed in terms of the church dedications of the twelfth and thirteenth-century aristocracy, the ecclesiastical landscape of Perth, the depiction of Mary in Gaelic poetry, and the pervasive influence of the familial bond between holy mother and son in representations of the Scottish royal family. Dr Steve Boardman is Reader in History, University of Edinburgh; Eila Williamson gained her PhD from the University of Glasgow. Contributors: Helen Birkett, Steve Boardman, Rachel Butter, Thomas Owen Clancy, David Ditchburn, Audrey-Beth Fitch, Mark A. Hall, Matthew H. Hammond, Sim Innes, Alan Macquarrie


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The Virgin Mary in late medieval and early modern English literature and popular culture
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ISBN: 9780521762960 0521762960 9780511974335 9781107407664 9780511861000 0511861001 9780511859267 0511859260 0511862180 1107216931 128300609X 9786613006097 0511860137 0511858396 0511857527 0511974337 1107407664 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book was first published in 2011. The Virgin Mary was one of the most powerful images of the Middle Ages, central to people's experience of Christianity. During the Reformation, however, many images of the Virgin were destroyed, as Protestantism rejected the way the medieval Church over-valued and sexualized Mary. Although increasingly marginalized in Protestant thought and practice, her traces and surprising transformations continued to haunt early modern England. Combining historical analysis and contemporary theory, including issues raised by psychoanalysis and feminist theology, Gary Waller examines the literature, theology and popular culture associated with Mary in the transition between late medieval and early modern England. He contrasts a variety of pre-Reformation texts and events, including popular mariology, poetry, tales, drama, pilgrimage and the emerging 'New Learning', with later sixteenth-century ruins, songs, ballads, Petrarchan poetry, the works of Shakespeare and other texts where the Virgin's presence or influence, sometimes surprisingly, can be found.


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Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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ISBN: 9781783270163 1783270160 Year: 2015 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK The Boydell Press

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This is the first title in the new series Boydell Medieval Texts, which will provide scholarly editions of major works with facing translation. Written c. 1135 by the Benedictine monk, historian and scholar William of Malmesbury (d. 1143), The Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary is of interest on several counts. It belongs in the first wave of collected miracles of the Virgin, produced by English Benedictine monks in the 1120s and '30s. These collections were to be influential across Europe and through the rest of the medieval period. Only two copies of William's work survive in anything like its complete form, and only one of them represents the finished product. But many of the stories were also transmitted separately, in groups or individually; the systematic use of this evidence is a feature of this new text. The work is written in elegant Latin and embellished with William's customary erudition, including frequent quotations and echoes from (sometimes unusual) ancient authors. His instinct as a historian is to the fore, as he tries to establish historical context and credibility for his stories. Above all, the scope of the collection is surprisingly international, including stories drawn from all around the Mediterranean. This is an important document in the history of Marian devotion in medieval Europe. In his long Prologue (which enjoyed some independent circulation), William argues strongly for the Virgin's Immaculate Conception and bodily Assumption, doctrines still not generally accepted in western Europe at the time. With the appearance of this book all of William of Malmesbury's major works are available in modern editions and translations.


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Marie, Mère des hommes : prier Marie en Eglise
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ISBN: 2718902698 9782718902692 Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris [Tournai] Desclée


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Handbuch der Marienkunde
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ISBN: 3791709089 9783791709086 Year: 1984 Publisher: Regensburg Verlag Friedrich Pustet

Under the heel of Mary.
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ISBN: 0415012961 9780415012966 Year: 1988 Publisher: London Routledge


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La dévotion mariale de l'an mil à nos jours
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ISSN: 12722286 ISBN: 2848320214 9782848320212 Year: 2005 Publisher: Arras : Artois presses université,

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Depuis plus de 1000 ans, le culte marial se maintient dans l'Europe du Nord-Ouest comme dans d'autres régions du monde. Ce constat d'une réalité sur la longue durée ne peut pas s'expliquer uniquement par des effets de mode, des circonstances favorables : il s'agit d'une réalité objective qui s'est construite sur des bases religieuses, politiques, culturelles en constante évolution et qu'une démarche scientifique et laïque peut tenter d'éclairer. Loin d'être une simple « superstructure » au regard des éléments fondamentaux que seraient la vie économique et les évolutions politiques, la croyance a été et demeure un paramètre personnel et collectif pour une grande partie de la population mondiale. Dans cette prise de conscience de l'importance du fait religieux, le culte rendu à la Vierge tient une place particulière qui demeure d'actualité : Lourdes, Fatima, Czestochowa vivent au rythme marial.Entre les hypothèses faisant état d'un déclin de la foi et celles qui, au contraire, remarquent, au travers du maintien de ce culte ancestral, une permanence du sentiment religieux, il y a incontestablement place pour construire un espace de recherche. Cet ouvrage tente de saisir ce phénomène de manière résolument plurielle et multidimensionnelle en évaluant les grandes périodes d'apogée et de crises dans l'histoire de cette dévotion mais aussi en s'attardant sur des pratiques particulières relevant de la micro-histoire. La pérennité d'un tel culte au long des générations traduit la solidité des fondements tout autant émotifs, affectifs que théologiques. Cependant, au fi l du temps se manifestent des périodes de reflux où s'expriment des contestations, des dénégations quelquefois engendrées par les excès d'une telle ferveur. Nés de manière quelquefois spontanée ou portés par des légendes, des traditions qui demandent à être revisitées, les cultes mariaux continuent d'intriguer les chercheurs tant par la vitalité et la variété de leurs manifestations que par le paradoxe du mélange de traditions et de modernité.

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