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Gli studi di mariologia medievale : bilancio storiografica
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ISBN: 8887027846 9788887027846 Year: 2001 Volume: 26 7 Publisher: Firenze Sismel


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Südost-Ueberlieferungen zum apokryphen "Traum Mariens".
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ISBN: 3769614682 Year: 1975 Publisher: München Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften


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Our Lady Saint Mary
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ISBN: 1781665958 4057664586797 9700000012624 Year: 2012 Publisher: [Luton, Bedfordshire] : Andrews UK Limited,


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Scholastic affect : gender, maternity and the history of emotions
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ISBN: 9781108886406 9781108814263 1108814263 1108898750 110888640X Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Scholastic theologians made the Virgin Mary increasingly perfect over the Middle Ages in Europe. Mary became stainless, offering an impossible but ideologically useful vision of womanhood. This work offers an implicit theory of the utility and feelings of women in a Christian salvationary economy. The Virgin was put to use as a shaming technology, one that silenced and effaced women's affective lives. The shame still stands to this day, although in secularised mutated forms. This Element deploys the intellectual history of medieval thought to map the moves made in codifying Mary's perfection. It then uses contemporary gender and affect theory to consider the implications of Mary's perfection within modernity, mapping the emotional regimes of the medieval past upon the present.


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Queen of Heaven : the assumption and coronation of the Virgin in early modern English writing
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ISBN: 0268104115 0268104107 0268104093 9780268104122 0268104123 9780268104115 9780268104092 9780268104108 Year: 2018 Publisher: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press,

The Virgin Goddess, : Studies in the Pagan and Christian Roots of Mariology.
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ISBN: 9004136398 9047412583 Year: 2004 Publisher: Leiden, Boston: Brill,

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The contemporary search for the feminine face of God is requiring a re-examination of the relationship of Christianity to the pagan world in which it came to birth. Stephen Benko approaches this study as both an historian and a Christian believer. Inquiring into extra-biblical sources of Marian piety, belief and doctrine, he proposes 'that there is a direct line, unbroken and clearly discernible, from the goddess-cults of the ancients to the reverence paid and eventually the cult accorded to the Virgin Mary.' Chapter by chapter he seeks to establish his conclusion that 'in Mariology the Christian genius preserved and transformed some of the best and noblest ideas that paganism developed. Rather than being a 'regression' into Paganism, Mariology is a progression toward a clearer and better understanding of the feminine aspect of the divine and the role of the female in the history of salvation.' This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.


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Miracles of the Virgin in medieval England : law and Jewishness in Marian legends
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ISBN: 1280489030 9786613584267 1846158885 1843842408 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer,

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Legendary accounts of the Virgin Mary's intercession were widely circulated throughout the middle ages, borrowing heavily, as in hagiography generally, from folktale and other motifs; she is represented in a number of different, often surprising, ways, rarely as the meek and mild mother of Christ, but as bookish, fierce, and capricious, amongst other attributes. This is the first full-length study of their place in specifically English medieval literary and cultural history. While the English circulation of vernacular Miracles of the Virgin is markedly different from continental examples, this book shows how difference and miscellaneity can reveal important developments within an unwieldy genre. The author argues that English miracles in particular were influenced by medieval England's troubled history with its Jewish population and the rapid thirteenth-century codification of English law, so that Mary frequently becomes a figure with special dominion over Jews, text, and legal problems. The shifting codicological and historical contexts of these texts make it clear that the paradoxical sign `Mary' could signify in both surprisingly different and surprisingly consistent ways, rendering Mary both mediatrix and legislatrix.


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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: Woodbridge Boydell

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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: 2012 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.

Dormition et assomption de Marie : histoire des traditions anciennes.
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ISBN: 2701013208 2701017122 9782701013206 Year: 1995 Volume: 98 Publisher: Paris Beauchesne

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