Professor Laura Saetveit Miles

The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation

Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church HistoryWinner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies AwardAn overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781843846284
• ISBN-10: 1843846284
• Artikelnr.: 62915886

Autorenporträt

LAURA SAETVEIT MILES is professor of British Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Imitatio Mariae: Mary, Medieval Readers, and Conceiving the
Word Performing the Psalms: The Annunciation in the Anchorhold Reading the
Prophecies: Meditation and Female Literacy in Lives of Christ Texts Writing
the Book: The Annunciations of Visionary Women Imagining the Book: Of Three
Workings in Man's Soul and Books of Hours Inhabiting the Annunciation: The
Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham and the Pynson Ballad Coda: Mary and Her
Book at the Reformation Bibliography Index