The Virgin Mary in late medieval and early modern English literature and popular culture /

Waller, Gary F. 1945-

The Virgin Mary in late medieval and early modern English literature and popular culture / Gary Waller, Purchase College, State University of New York. - Reprinted edition. - xii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1538 and after : the Virgin Mary in the century of iconoclasm -- 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 -- 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.

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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint --In literature.


English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700





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820.9351 / WAL