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Shadows of Mary
Teresa P. Reed
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Description for Shadows of Mary
paperback. An examination of images of the Virgin Mary in medieval theological, philosophical and literary texts. It shows how the figure of Mary influences the depiction of female characters in sacred writing, and considers key issues in Western thinking about women, Christianity and domestic culture. Series: Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; 3H; DSBB; HRCM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
In medieval thought, Mary was a virgin, a mother, a daughter, and a wife, alone of all her sex and yet also continually invoked in order to define femininity in general. Shadows of Mary analyses the figure of the Virgin Mary in medieval theological, philosophical and literary texts in order to understand how stories about her influenced the creation of female characters in both sacred and secular writing. Teresa Reed traces aspects of Marian figuration ranging from Chaucer's Constance and the Wife of Bath, to the medical woman of the English Trotula, Saint Margaret of Antioch and the Pearl maiden. ... Read more
In medieval thought, Mary was a virgin, a mother, a daughter, and a wife, alone of all her sex and yet also continually invoked in order to define femininity in general. Shadows of Mary analyses the figure of the Virgin Mary in medieval theological, philosophical and literary texts in order to understand how stories about her influenced the creation of female characters in both sacred and secular writing. Teresa Reed traces aspects of Marian figuration ranging from Chaucer's Constance and the Wife of Bath, to the medical woman of the English Trotula, Saint Margaret of Antioch and the Pearl maiden. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
Series
Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
Number of Pages
171
Place of Publication
Wales, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780708317976
SKU
V9780708317976
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About Teresa P. Reed
Teresa P. Reed is Associate Professor of English at Jacksonville State University, Alabama. She has published articles dealing with gender and genre in Chaucer and Pearl and has contributed numerous entries to the forthcoming Chaucer Encyclopedia.
Reviews for Shadows of Mary
'... an important contribution in the field of medieval studies. There is much to recommend in this book: it is a rich and dense analysis, full of insight, providing a solid method of investigation that connects the Middle English texts which are the object of her analysis to a large number of texts...' Mediaevistik