Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England

Mary Beth Long

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English

Manchester University Press
02 January 2024

Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval history; History of religion

Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Mary 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.

By: Mary Beth Long
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 625g
ISBN: 9781526155306
ISBN 10: 1526155303
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 02 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Beth Long is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arkansas.