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Nov 25, 2021 · Celebrating the relatively new (and non-biblical) feast of the Virgin’s Nativity, Fulbert endorsed the Church’s greater openness to apocryphal accounts of Mary’s life, arguing that ‘particularly on this day it (page 103) p. 103 seemed that the book that was found written concerning [Mary’s] origin and life ought to be read in church, even though the [Church] Fathers did not decide to ...
in the Middle Ages , Cambridge Series in Medieval Literature 65 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 121. For a cursory examination of the motif see David Linton, "Reading the Virgin Reader," in The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages, ed. Albrecht Classen (New York: Garland, 1999), 253-76. Speculum 89/3 (July 2014)
The story of Mary’s book To contextualize the impact of the motif of Mary’s book in the later Middle Ages and beyond, we must reach back a further thousand years to trace its evolution.10 None of the canonical gospels give us any details on Mary’s life or literacy prior to the Annunciation.
From the formulations at Ephesos and Chalcedon Mary formed part of the understanding of a God made Flesh and of a picture of redemption which was all-embracing in its promise and tantalizing in its accessibility. This essay shows just how wide and diverse were the medieval ways of thinking about Mary and the ways of exploring the possibilities ...
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Julia Kristeva calls the Virgin a“combination of power and sorrow, sover-eignty and the unnameable, making up“one of the most powerful imagi- ” nary constructs known in the history of civilization. ” This book explores aspects of the poetry, drama, tales, ballads, and something of the theological and polemical religious writings that expressed and ...
fascinating environment. My colleagues in that venture included Bradley Brookshire, Michael Carroll, Simon Coleman, Susan Dunn-Hensley, Carole Hill, Dominic Janes, Susan Morrison, Tom Rist, and John Twyning. Work in progress toward this book appeared in the volume of essays emerging from that meeting, Walsingham from the Middle Ages to Modernism, e...
yet very serious, stories is entitled“I Always Felt Like I Was On Pretty Good Terms With The Virgin Mary, Even Though I Hadn’t Gotten Pregnant In High School. She has helped me to share and, I hope, express part of ” the humor and delight, as well as the seriousness, of the power and sorrow that are both celebrated and critiqued in that story and h...
Nov 5, 2019 · 1 Sheingorn, Pamela, “ ‘The Wise Mother’: The Image of St. Anne Teaching the Virgin Mary,” in Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages, ed. Erler, Mary C. and Kowaleski, Maryanne (Ithaca, NY, 2003), 105 –34Google Scholar; Clanchy, Michael T., “ Learning to Read in the Middle Ages and the Role of Mothers,” in Studies in the History of Reading, ed. Brooks ...
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Nov 2, 2010 · In his book Mary and the Fathers of the Church, Fr. Luigi Gambero presented a comprehensive survey of Marian doctrine and devotion during the first eight Christian centuries. Mary in the Middle Ages continues this journey up to the end of the fifteenth century, surveying the growth of Marian doctrine and devotion during one of the most important eras of Christian history: the Middle Ages.
