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Virgin whore
- Title
- Virgin whore / Emma Maggie Solberg.
- Author
- Solberg, Emma Maggie
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xi, 275 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Sex
- Christian drama, English (Middle)
- Literature
- History
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > England > History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
- Women > England > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > In literature
- Women > Middle Ages
- English literature > Middle English
- Sex > England > History > To 1500
- To 1500
- Christian drama, English (Middle) > History and criticism
- Devotion
- English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
- England
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1547
- ISBN
- 9781501730337
- 1501730339
- LCCN
- 2018023435
- OCLC
- 1028888009
- Author
- Solberg, Emma Maggie, author.
- Title
- Virgin whore / Emma Maggie Solberg.
- Publisher
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Other Form:
- Online version: Solberg, Emma Maggie. Virgin whore. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501730344 (DLC) 2018027870
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1547