Miracles of the Virgin in Middle English

Name: Miracles of the Virgin in Middle English
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ISBN: 9781554812561

ISBN-10: 1554812569

ISBN-13: 9781554812561

Edition: 2015

Authors: Adrienne Williams-Boyarin

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During the Middle Ages, Mary was the most powerful of saints, and the combination of her humanity and her proximity to the divine captured the medieval imagination. Her importance is nowhere more clearly reflected than in the genre of “Miracles of the Virgin,” short narrative accounts of Mary’s miraculous intercessory powers. These stories tend to fit a basic narrative pattern in which Mary saves a devoted believer from spiritual or physical danger—but beneath this surface simplicity, the Miracles frequently evoke fine and revealing theological, social, and cultural distinctions. They are remarkably various in tone, ranging from the darkly serious to the comically scandalous, and Mary…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication date: 9/1/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 150
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.418