Virgin whore

Virgin whore

by Solberg, Emma Maggie

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"In Virgin Whore, Emma Maggie Solberg uncovers a surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary's sexuality. Although history is narrated as a progressive loss of innocence, the Madonna has grown purer with each passing century. Looking to a period before the idea of her purity and virginity had ossified, Solberg uncovers depictions and interpretations of Mary, discernible in jokes and insults, icons and rituals, prayers and reve…

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  • Full title :Virgin whore / Emma Maggie Solberg.

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"In Virgin Whore, Emma Maggie Solberg uncovers a surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary's sexuality. Although history is narrated as a progressive loss of innocence, the Madonna has grown purer with each passing century. Looking to a period before the idea of her purity and virginity had ossified, Solberg uncovers depictions and interpretations of Mary, discernible in jokes and insults, icons and rituals, prayers and revelations, allegories and typologies--and in late medieval vernacular biblical drama ... By revealing the presence of this promiscuous Virgin in early English drama and late medieval literature and culture--in dirty jokes told by Boccaccio and Chaucer, Malory's Arthurian romances, and the double entendres of the allegorical Mystic Hunt of the Unicorn--Solberg provides a new understanding of Marian traditions"--

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  • Publication Date:2018.

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  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 275 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781501730351, 1501730347, 9781501730344, 1501730355
  • oclc:on1040083459
  • LC Classification:PR275.M34
  • Dewey Decimal:820.9/351

Table of Contents

The many fathers of Jesus Christ -- Testing the chastity of the divine adulteress -- The second Eve -- Imitations of the virgin -- Promiscuous mercy -- The Whore of Babylon.

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Subjects

Christian drama, English (Middle) Christian drama, English (Middle) -- Hi… Criticism, interpretation, etc Dévotion England English literature -- History and criti… English literature -- Middle English Femmes -- Histoire -- 500-1500 (Moyen Â… History LITERARY CRITICISM -- European LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval Literature Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et cri… Marie, Sainte Vierge Mary,, Blessed Virgin, Saint Sex Sex -- History -- To 1500. -- England Théâtre chrétien anglais (moyen anglais… To 1500 Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-15…

Writers

Solberg, Emma Maggie

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