Long Marian maternity in late-medieval England

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5531-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Long takes advantage of the fifteenth century’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of her maternity in devotional texts. This results in revisionist readings that consider maternity as a literate practice and devotional literacy as a maternal one.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Long, Mary Beth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Marian maternity, matricentric reading, and devotional literacies
Part I The reader: Margery Kempe’s devotional literacies and imitatio Mariae
1 The Dominican literacies of Margery Kempe’s pilgrimages
2 Mar(ger)y at the foot of the Cross
Part II The genre: Defining Marian absence in legendaries of women
3 The community service of mystics’ maternal bodies
4 ‘In Our Lady’s Binds’: Mary’s maternal peers in East Anglian devotion
Part III The author: Chaucer as matricentric poet
5 A Mary for every mother: mothers as agents of orthodoxy
6 A Marian, maternal Cecilia
Conclusion: ‘Show yourself a mother’

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Über Autor(innen)

Mary Beth Long is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arkansas.