Adrienne Williams Boyarin

Miracles of the Virgin in Medieval England (eBook, PDF)

Law and Jewishness in Marian Legends

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Produktbeschreibung

First book-length study of hagiographical legends of the Virgin Mary in medieval England, with particular reference to her relationship with Jews, books, and the law.

Legendary accounts of the Virgin Mary's intercession were widely circulated throughout the middle ages, borrowing heavily, as in hagiography generally, from folktale and other motifs; she is represented in a number of different, often surprising, ways, rarely as the meek and mild mother of Christ, but as bookish, fierce, and capricious, amongst other attributes.
This is the first full-length study of their place in specifically English medieval literary and cultural history. While the English circulation of vernacular Miracles of the Virgin is markedly different from continental examples, this book shows how difference and miscellaneity can reveal important developments withinan unwieldy genre. The author argues that English miracles in particular were influenced by medieval England's troubled history with its Jewish population and the rapid thirteenth-century codification of English law, so that Maryfrequently becomes a figure with special dominion over Jews, text, and legal problems. The shifting codicological and historical contexts of these texts make it clear that the paradoxical sign"Mary" could signify in both surprisingly different and surprisingly consistent ways, rendering Mary both mediatrix and legislatrix.

ADRIENNE WILLIAMS BOYARIN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria (British Columbia).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846158889
• Artikelnr.: 63918873

Autorenporträt

Adrienne Williams Boyarin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Idea of English Miracles of the Virgin The Theophilus
Legend in England: Mary the Advocate, Mary the Jew The Theophilus Legend in
England, Again: From the Devil's Charter to a Marian Paradigm The Virgin
and the Law in Middle English Contexts The Fate of Engish Miracles of the
Virgin Afterword Appendix 1: The Founding of the Feast of the Conception in
the South English Legendary Appendix 2: Blood on the Penitent Woman's Hand
Appendix 3: The 'Charter Group' Miracles and Other Short Texts from British
Library MS Additional 37049 Appendix 4: An Index of Miracles of the Virgin
Collated with Existing Lists Bibliography