Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England

Name: Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England
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ISBN: 9780521531153

ISBN-10: 0521531152

ISBN-13: 9780521531153

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Authors: Mary Clayton, Simon Keynes, Andy Orchard

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The cult of the Virgin Mary is associated by most medievalists with the twelfth and succeeding centuries. This book, however, provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cult in England from c. 700 to the Conquest. Interest in and devotion to Mary flourished in the late seventh and eighth centuries and, especially, in the period of the Benedictine reform from the mid-tenth century onwards. In this latter period Mary, as patron saint of almost all of the reformed houses, was the most important saint of the monastic movement. Dr Clayton describes and illustrates the development of Marian devotion and doctrine from the early church to the Carolingians, by discussing Anglo-Saxon feasts of the…

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List price: $46.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/13/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.06" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.078

Andy Orchard is the Provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto.



List of plates


Acknowledgements List of abbreviations



Introduction



Feasts of the Virgin: origin and development



The cult of the Virgin in the liturgy



Private prayer to Mary



Marian dedications, relics and pilgrimage in Anglo-Saxon England



The Virgin as portrayed in Anglo-Saxon art



The Virgin in Old English poetry



The Virgin in Old English prose


Conclusions


Bibliography


Index