The Virgin Mary in late medieval and early modern English literature and popular culture
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Cambridge University Press 2011Description: 237pISBN: 9780521762960Subject(s): Virgin Mary-Literary aspects | Medieval poetry | Middle ages | English literatureDDC classification: 820.9351 Summary: This book was first published in 2011. The Virgin Mary was one of the most powerful images of the Middle Ages, central to people's experience of Christianity. During the Reformation, however, many images of the Virgin were destroyed, as Protestantism rejected the way the medieval Church over-valued and sexualized Mary. Although increasingly marginalized in Protestant thought and practice, her traces and surprising transformations continued to haunt early modern England. Combining historical analysis and contemporary theory, including issues raised by psychoanalysis and feminist theology, Gary Waller examines the literature, theology and popular culture associated with Mary in the transition between late medieval and early modern England. He contrasts a variety of pre-Reformation texts and events, including popular mariology, poetry, tales, drama, pilgrimage and the emerging 'New Learning', with later sixteenth-century ruins, songs, ballads, Petrarchan poetry, the works of Shakespeare and other texts where the Virgin's presence or influence, sometimes surprisingly, can be found.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Stack | 820.9351 WAL/V (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 29268 |
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820.935 8 CAM.1 Cambridge history of postcolonial literature / | 820.935 8 CAM.2 Cambridge history of postcolonial literature / | 820.9351 BER/C Of chastity and power: Elizabethan literature and the unmarried queen | 820.9351 WAL/V The Virgin Mary in late medieval and early modern English literature and popular culture | 820.93520420902 FEM Feminist readings in middle English literature: The wife of Bath and all her sect | 820.93522 AND/S Studies in women literature | 820.9353 RAI/A Authorship, ethics and the reader: Blake, Dickens, Joyce |
This book was first published in 2011. The Virgin Mary was one of the most powerful images of the Middle Ages, central to people's experience of Christianity. During the Reformation, however, many images of the Virgin were destroyed, as Protestantism rejected the way the medieval Church over-valued and sexualized Mary. Although increasingly marginalized in Protestant thought and practice, her traces and surprising transformations continued to haunt early modern England. Combining historical analysis and contemporary theory, including issues raised by psychoanalysis and feminist theology, Gary Waller examines the literature, theology and popular culture associated with Mary in the transition between late medieval and early modern England. He contrasts a variety of pre-Reformation texts and events, including popular mariology, poetry, tales, drama, pilgrimage and the emerging 'New Learning', with later sixteenth-century ruins, songs, ballads, Petrarchan poetry, the works of Shakespeare and other texts where the Virgin's presence or influence, sometimes surprisingly, can be found.
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