Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England

Long takes advantage of the fifteenth century’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of her maternity in devotional texts. This results in revisionist readings that consider maternity as a literate practice and devotional literacy as a maternal one. -- .

• | Author: Mary Beth Long
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 12, 2023
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781526155306
• | ISBN-10: 1526155303