Miracles of the Virgin in Middle English: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition - Couverture souple

 
9781554812561: Miracles of the Virgin in Middle English: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
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ISBN 10 : 1554812569 ISBN 13 : 9781554812561
Editeur : Broadview Press Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Adrienne Williams Boyarin is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. She is also the editor and translator of The Siege of Jerusalem (Broadview, 2014) and the author of Miracles of the Virgin in Medieval England: Law and Jewishness in Marian Legends (Boydell & Brewer, 2010).

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Éditeur
Broadview Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1554812569
ISBN 13 
9781554812561
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Broché
Nombre de pages
150
Éditeur
Williams Boyarin Adrienne, Black Joseph, Conolly Leonard, Flint Kate, Grundy Isobel, LePan Don, Liuzza Roy, McGann Jerome J., Lake Prescott Anne, Qualls Barry V., Waters Claire
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