{"product_id":"marian-maternity-in-late-medieval-england-9781526155306","title":"Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarian maternity in late-medieval England\u003c\/i\u003e 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 maternity in vernacular religious texts. By bringing together texts and authors that are not often discussed in tandem, this study offers a rich examination of the multiple factors at play as Marian material circulated among experienced devotional readers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking a close look at the private devotional reading of late-medieval patrons, the book shows how texts including Chaucer’s poetry, Margery Kempe’s \u003ci\u003eBoke\u003c\/i\u003e, and legendaries of female saints are saturated with indirect references to and imitations of the Virgin. \u003ci\u003eMarian maternity in late-medieval England\u003c\/i\u003e employs a matricentric feminist approach to discern how readers’ devotional literacies inform their understanding and imitation of the Virgin’s maternal practice. Attending to internal cues in the texts, to manuscript contexts, and to the evidence and content of readers’ multiple literacies, the author examines Marian maternity as both theological concept and imitable practice. The result is a book that explains late-medieval perceptions of Mary’s maternity and sets them against readers’ devotional, emotional and relational circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Marian maternity, matricentric reading, and devotional literacies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I\u003c\/b\u003e The reader: Margery Kempe’s devotional literacies and \u003ci\u003eimitatio Mariae\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Dominican literacies of Margery Kempe’s pilgrimages\u003cbr\u003e2 Mar(ger)y at the foot of the Cross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II \u003c\/b\u003eThe genre: Defining Marian absence in legendaries of women\u003cbr\u003e3 The community service of mystics’ maternal bodies \u003cbr\u003e4 ‘In Our Lady’s Binds’: Mary’s maternal peers in East Anglian devotion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III \u003c\/b\u003eThe author: Chaucer as matricentric poet\u003cbr\u003e5 A Mary for every mother: mothers as agents of orthodoxy\u003cbr\u003e6 A Marian, maternal Cecilia\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: ‘Show yourself a mother’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041019986263,"sku":"9781526155306","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526155306.jpg?v=1750948625","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/marian-maternity-in-late-medieval-england-9781526155306","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}