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OverviewMary Beth Long takes advantage of the fifteenth century's intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of maternity in vernacular religious texts. By bringing together texts and authors that are not often discussed in tandem, this study offers a rich examination of the multiple factors at play as Marian material circulated among experienced devotional readers. Long employs a matricentric feminist approach to discern how readers' devotional literacies inform their understanding of the Virgin's maternal practice. Long attends to internal cues in the texts, to manuscript contexts, and to the evidence and content of readers' multiple literacies. She discerns the goals as well as the practice of literate Marian devotion. The result is a book that explains late-medieval perceptions of Mary's maternity and sets them against real maternal practice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Beth LongPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.625kg ISBN: 9781526155306ISBN 10: 1526155303 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 12 September 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marian maternity, matricentric reading, and devotional literacies Part I The reader: Margery Kempe’s devotional literacies and imitatio Mariae 1 The Dominican literacies of Margery Kempe’s pilgrimages 2 Mar(ger)y at the foot of the Cross Part II The genre: Defining Marian absence in legendaries of women 3 The community service of mystics’ maternal bodies 4 ‘In Our Lady’s Binds’: Mary’s maternal peers in East Anglian devotion Part III The author: Chaucer as matricentric poet 5 A Mary for every mother: mothers as agents of orthodoxy 6 A Marian, maternal Cecilia Conclusion: ‘Show yourself a mother’ Bibliography Index -- .ReviewsAuthor InformationMary Beth Long is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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