Emotion and Devotion: The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures

Emotion and Devotion: The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures
ISBN-10
6155211744
ISBN-13
9786155211744
Category
Religion
Pages
130
Language
English
Published
2009-03-10
Publisher
Central European University Press
Author
Miri Rubin

Description

In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters she approaches the medieval figure of the Virgin Mary with the aim of unravelling meaning and experience. Hymns and miracle tales, altarpieces and sermons – a wide range of sources from many European regions – are made to reveal the creativity and richness which they elicited in medieval people, women and men, clergy and laity, people of status and riches as well as those of modest means.

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