Miles The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation

Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-878-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History

Winner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies Award

An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miles, Laura Saetveit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Gottesdienst, Riten und Zeremonien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Imitatio Mariae: Mary, Medieval Readers, and Conceiving the Word
Performing the Psalms: The Annunciation in the Anchorhold
Reading the Prophecies: Meditation and Female Literacy in Lives of Christ Texts
Writing the Book: The Annunciations of Visionary Women
Imagining the Book: Of Three Workings in Man's Soul and Books of Hours
Inhabiting the Annunciation: The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham and the Pynson Ballad
Coda: Mary and Her Book at the Reformation
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Miles Laura Saetveit:
LAURA SAETVEIT MILES is professor of British Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, Norway.