The Virgin Mary in late medieval and early modern English literature and popular culture
By: Gary Waller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780521762960
Subjects: In literature; English literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1538 and after : the Virgin Mary in the century of iconoclasm; title: The Virgin Mary in late medieval culture to 1538. The sexualization of the Virgin in the late Middle Ages ; The Virgin's body in late medieval poetry, romance, and drama ; Walsingham or Falsingham, Woolpit or Foulpit : Marian shrines and pilgrimage before 1538; title: Fades, traces : transformations of the Virgin in early modern England. Fades : Elizabethan ruins, tunes, ballads, poems ; Traces : English Petrarchism and the veneration of the Virgin ; Traces : Shakespeare and the Virgin : All's well that ends well, Pericles, and The winter's tale ; Multiple Madonnas : traces and transformations in the seventeenth century.