Miracles of the Virgin in medieval England
Subtitle: law and Jewishness in Marian legends
By: Adrienne Williams Boyarin
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781843842408
Subjects: Apparitions and miracles; History
Description: xi, 217 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The idea of English miracles of the virgin; title: The Theophilus legend in England : Mary the advocate, Mary the Jew; title: The Theophilus legend in England, again : from the Devil's charter to a Marian paradigm; title: The virgin and the law in Middle English contexts; title: The fate of English miracles of the Virgin; title: Appendix. "The founding of the feast of the conception" in the South English legendary ; "Blood on the penitent woman's hand" (Bodleian Library MS e Museo 180) ; The Charter Group miracles and other short texts from British Library MS additional 37049 ; An index of miracles of the Virgin collated with existing lists.