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Mariologie und "Wunderglaube" : ein kritischer Beitrag zur spiritualitätstheologischen Valenz der Mariophanie im Kontext humanwissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen.
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ISBN: 9783791721910 Year: 2009 Publisher: Regensburg Pustet


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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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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: 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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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.

Die Mutter Jesu im Neuen Testament
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ISBN: 9514105915 9789514105913 Year: 1989 Volume: 247 247 Publisher: Helsinki Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia

Visionaries : the Spanish Republic and the reign of Christ
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ISBN: 0520200403 0585047855 9780520200401 Year: 1996 Publisher: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London University of California Press

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"In June 1931, on a hillside in the Spanish Basque country, two children reported seeing the Virgin Mary. Within weeks, hundreds of seers were attracting tens of thousands of onlookers, and the nightly spectacle gave rise to others in dozens of towns across Spain. Visionaries explores the experience and the larger meaning of this wave of sightings of Mary and the saints which began shortly after Spain became a republic and anticlerical mobs burned religious houses in several cities. Before repression from the government and condemnation from the Vatican finally drove the visionaries into secrecy, more than a million people had visited the original apparition site at Ezkioga." "William Christian writes about two kinds of visionaries and their relation to each other: the seers who had visions of Mary and the saints, and the believers who had a vision for the future which they hoped Mary and the saints would confirm. Together, these visionaries attempted to convince a skeptical world that heavenly beings were appearing on the Iberian peninsula." "Christian immersed himself in the lives of these visionaries, retracing their steps and recreating their world. He spoke with hundreds of witnesses, who led him to caches of vision messages, diaries, clandestine publications, and eloquent photographs in, for example, a clinic in Dijon, a garage in southern France, a cloistered convent in Valladolid, a farm attic in the Basque country, a house in a Catalan mill town, and a chapel in an orange grove in Valencia." "By turns intense, poignant, fierce, and funny, this long-hidden history demonstrates the vital role of the extraordinary in giving voice to a society's hope and anguish. What do people want to learn from heaven that they cannot learn on earth? How are their churches failing them in these needs? How are we affected by seers and the kinds of believers who nudge seers along? How do vision messages converge on certain themes?"--Jacket.


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Presbeia Theotokou : the intercessory role of Mary across times and places in Byzantium (4th-9th century)
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ISBN: 370017828X Year: 2015 Volume: 39 481 Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

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The present book is dedicated to one main aspect of the Marian cult: it investigates the historical process that made Mary, mother of Jesus, the most prominent intercessor across the Byzantine Empire at the end of Iconoclasm (843). The study touches religious and social issues, it refers only to contemporary ideas and sources and distinguishes itself consciously from later mariological concepts.

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