Miracles Of The Virgin In Middle English
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Miracles Of The Virgin In Middle English
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Author : Adrienne Williams Boyarin
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Miracles Of The Virgin In Middle English written by Adrienne Williams Boyarin and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
The Middle English Miracles Of The Virgin
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Author : Beverly Boyd
language : en
Publisher: San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library
Release Date : 1964
The Middle English Miracles Of The Virgin written by Beverly Boyd and has been published by San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Religion categories.
Miracles Of The Virgin In Medieval England
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Author : Adrienne Williams Boyarin
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2010
Miracles Of The Virgin In Medieval England written by Adrienne Williams Boyarin and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Education categories.
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).
Saints Lives In Middle English Collections
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Author : Anne B Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Release Date : 2005-04-01
Saints Lives In Middle English Collections written by Anne B Thompson and has been published by Medieval Institute Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-01 with Literary Collections categories.
This volume is conceived as a complement to another Middle English Texts series text, Sherry Reames' Middle English Legends of Women Saints. This selection is intended to be broadly representative of saints' lives in Middle English and of the classic types of hagiographic legend as these were presented to the lay public and less-literate clergy of late medieval England.
Female Devotion And Textile Imagery In Medieval English Literature
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Author : Anna McKay
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024
Female Devotion And Textile Imagery In Medieval English Literature written by Anna McKay and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Literary Criticism categories.
Uncovers the female voices, lived experiences, and spiritual insights encoded by the imagery of textiles in the Middle Ages. For millennia, women have spoken and read through cloth. The literature and art of the Middle Ages are replete with images of women working cloth, wielding spindles, distaffs, and needles, or sitting at their looms. Yet they have been little explored. Drawing upon the burgeoning field of medieval textile studies, as well as contemporary theories of gender, materiality, and eco-criticism, this study illustrates how textiles provide a hermeneutical alternative to the patriarchally-dominated written word. It puts forward the argument that women's devotion during this period was a "fabricated" phenomenon, a mode of spirituality and religious exegesis expressed, devised, and practised through cloth. Centred on four icons of female devotion (Eve, Mary, St Veronica, and - of course - Christ), the book explores a broad range of narratives from across the rich tapestry of medieval English literature, from the fields of Piers Plowman to the late medieval Morte D'arthur; the devotions of Margery Kempe to the visionary experiences of Julian of Norwich; Gervase of Tilbury's fabulous Otia Imperialia to the anchoritic guidance literature of the Middle Ages; and the innumerable (and oft-forgotten) lives of Christ, prayers, legends, and miracle tales in between.
The Middle English Miracles Of The Virgin
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Author : Beverly Boyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Middle English Miracles Of The Virgin written by Beverly Boyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.
Miracles Of Our Lady
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Author : Gonzalo de Berceo
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 1997-06-19
Miracles Of Our Lady written by Gonzalo de Berceo and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Miracle tales, in which people are rewarded for piety or punished for sin through the intervention of the Virgin Mary, were a popular literary form throughout the Middle Ages. Milagros Nuestra Senora, a collection of such stories by the Spanish secular priest Gonzalo de Berceo, is not only a premier example of this genre but is also widely regarded as one of the four most important texts of medieval Spain." "These miracle tales use the verse form cuaderna via (fourfold way) of fully rhymed quatrains - which Berceo may even have invented - and are told in the language of the common man. They were written to be read aloud, most likely to an audience of pilgrims, and are an outstanding example of oral religious narrative. The total work comprises twenty-five miracles, preceded by a renowned introduction that celebrates the Virgin in rich symbolic allegory."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Middle English Saints Legends
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Author : John Scahill
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2005
Middle English Saints Legends written by John Scahill and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Annotated bibliography covering two centuries of scholarly criticism on the extensive corpus of medieval saints' legends. with the assistance of Margaret RogersonSaints' legends are being increasingly recognised as one of the most important genres of the middle ages, and attract much critical attention. This volume surveys the scholarly literatureof the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on the extensive Middle English corpus. It also provides a conspectus of the genre's history in the Middle English period, and its place in the development of the modern discipline of Middle English, while both the introduction and the annotations give attention to the problematic boundaries between genres and to the issues involved in separating out texts from their manuscript contexts. General studies of the corpus as a whole are covered, as well as discussions and editions of individual legends, of the various extended cycles of legends, and of sermon collections that include hagiographic legends and exempla; the volume has been structured so as to provide an overview of the research on major works [for example the South English Legendary and St Erkenwald], and authors such as Osbern Bokenham, John Capgrave, William Caxton and John Mirk. It includesan Index of Scholars and Critics keyed to the Bibliography, an Index of Middle English Texts that covers all works, of whatever genre, mentioned in the annotations, and an Index of Manuscripts that gathers the references to the over 170 manuscripts cited.
Imagining The Miraculous
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Author : Anna D. Russakoff
language : en
Publisher: PIMS
Release Date : 2019
Imagining The Miraculous written by Anna D. Russakoff and has been published by PIMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Art categories.
"This is not a book about miraculous images of the Virgin Mary, but rather about their representations in French illuminated manuscripts from ca. 1250 to ca. 1450. Illustrations such as these point to the ubiquity of local miraculous Marian images in devotional practices from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century in French-speaking regions. This book examines in systematic fashion a large quantity of images, mostly unpublished, from the various types of texts devoted to Marian miracles. It then analyzes the depiction of their materiality and the animated miracles they perform, and traces their evolution from the earliest narratives of Marian miracles written in Old French through to the Burgundian court of the late Middle Ages."--
Art And Context In Late Medieval English Narrative
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Author : Robert Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 1994
Art And Context In Late Medieval English Narrative written by Robert Edwards and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The twelve studies divide into three groups.