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Author | : Adrienne Williams Boyarin |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1460405196 |
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During the Middle Ages, Mary was the most powerful of saints, and the combination of her humanity and her proximity to the divine captured the medieval imagination. Her importance is nowhere more clearly reflected than in the genre of “Miracles of the Virgin,” short narrative accounts of Mary’s miraculous intercessory powers. These stories tend to fit a basic narrative pattern in which Mary saves a devoted believer from spiritual or physical danger—but beneath this surface simplicity, the Miracles frequently evoke fine or revealing theological, social, and cultural distinctions. They are remarkably various in tone, ranging from the darkly serious to the comically scandalous, and many display anti-Semitism to a greater degree or with greater punch than do other medieval genres. Mary herself takes on a variety of characteristics, appearing as dominant and persuasive more often than she appears as gentle and maternal. This volume offers a small but representative sampling of what survives of this literature in the English language. The Middle English has been helpfully glossed and annotated, and is lightly modernized for ease of reading; one particularly challenging story is translated in facing-page format. The “In Context” sections provide relevant biblical passages and medieval versions of the Christian prayers frequently evoked in the miracles; additional samples of Marian poetry and medieval illustrations of Marian miracles are also included.
Author | : Adrienne Williams Boyarin |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1770485597 |
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During the Middle Ages, Mary was the most powerful of saints, and the combination of her humanity and her proximity to the divine captured the medieval imagination. Her importance is nowhere more clearly reflected than in the genre of “Miracles of the Virgin,” short narrative accounts of Mary’s miraculous intercessory powers. These stories tend to fit a basic narrative pattern in which Mary saves a devoted believer from spiritual or physical danger—but beneath this surface simplicity, the Miracles frequently evoke fine or revealing theological, social, and cultural distinctions. They are remarkably various in tone, ranging from the darkly serious to the comically scandalous, and many display anti-Semitism to a greater degree or with greater punch than do other medieval genres. Mary herself takes on a variety of characteristics, appearing as dominant and persuasive more often than she appears as gentle and maternal. This volume offers a small but representative sampling of what survives of this literature in the English language. The Middle English has been helpfully glossed and annotated, and is lightly modernized for ease of reading; one particularly challenging story is translated in facing-page format. The “In Context” sections provide relevant biblical passages and medieval versions of the Christian prayers frequently evoked in the miracles; additional samples of Marian poetry and medieval illustrations of Marian miracles are also included.
Author | : Beverly Boyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2013 |
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Author | : Adrienne Williams Boyarin |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1843842408 |
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First book-length study of hagiographical legends of the Virgin Mary in medieval England, with particular reference to her relationship with Jews, books, and the law. 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 withinan 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 Maryfrequently 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. ADRIENNE WILLIAMS BOYARIN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria (British Columbia).
Author | : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1964 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Johann Herolt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Beverly Boyd |
Publisher | : San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William (of Malmesbury) |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783270160 |
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'The Miracles of the Virgin Mary', written c. 1135 by the Benedictine monk and historian William of Malmesbury (d. 1143), is important on several counts. It belongs to 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 because the stories in them were not connected with a particular shrine, but international. Although only two copies of William's collection survive in anything like its complete and original plan, in a dismembered form it too was influential across Europe and through the rest of the medieval period.
Author | : Peter C. Whiteford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Devotional literature, English (Middle) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Johannes Herolt |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : |
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