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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 ...
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 ...
Jul 14, 2014 · The medievalist Michael Clanchy believes that the parents of all social classes had to teach their offspring to read at least one verse from the Bible. The miniature from Bedford Hours manuscript is an evidence of medieval women’s literacy through the “spiritual leader” of all women, Virgin Mary. The image of Virgin Mary literacy will be ...
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)
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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...
Dec 30, 2022 · Yet she appears in only a handful of pages in the Gospels. Visualizing the Virgin Mary — an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles — shows how she was ...
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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 ...
