The mutual influences of the medieval discourse of courtly love and the literary visions of divine love have long been recognized by readers of medieval lyrical poetry and devotional writings. They are especially visible in the affinities between the language used to construct the picture of the ideal courtly lady and the images of the Virgin Mary. Praises of Mary’s physical beauty, strewn with erotic implications, are an example of a strictly male eroticization of the medieval Marian discourse, rooted in Bernard of Clairvaux’s allegorical reading of the Song of Songs, where Mary is imagined as the Bride of the poem, whose “breasts are like two young roes that are twins” (Cant. of Cant. 4:5). Glimpses of medieval female erotic imagination, ...
This dissertation examines the complex interrelations between incarnation theology and notions of t...
The writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe show an awareness of traditional and contemporar...
Perhaps no other century in the history of literature has received more debunking and less treatment...
The mutual influences of the medieval discourse of courtly love and the literary visions of divine l...
This dissertation explores the way medieval English devotional writers utilized the hermeneutics of ...
This thesis explores the representation and development of female devotion through textiles in medie...
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries, like the nineteenth in Foucault\u27s famous formulation, witne...
The late-medieval English prose text Mary of Nemmegen (c 1518) relates the tale of a girl who spends...
Throughout the Christian era, literary and artistic representations of the Virgin Mary have been man...
This senior honors thesis focuses on the medieval exegetical treatment of the Song of Songs and the ...
This thesis is concerned with the didactic function of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century vernacular ...
This interdisciplinary study of devotional literature, drama and the visual arts examines the repre...
(print) x, 292 p. : illus. ; 23 cmA study of sacred history and aesthetic formINTRODUCTION : The The...
Christianity, as a religion centered on the Incarnation of a spiritual being, is always necessarily ...
The usefulness of religious images to the Christian Church in late-medieval Europe had long been app...
This dissertation examines the complex interrelations between incarnation theology and notions of t...
The writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe show an awareness of traditional and contemporar...
Perhaps no other century in the history of literature has received more debunking and less treatment...
The mutual influences of the medieval discourse of courtly love and the literary visions of divine l...
This dissertation explores the way medieval English devotional writers utilized the hermeneutics of ...
This thesis explores the representation and development of female devotion through textiles in medie...
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries, like the nineteenth in Foucault\u27s famous formulation, witne...
The late-medieval English prose text Mary of Nemmegen (c 1518) relates the tale of a girl who spends...
Throughout the Christian era, literary and artistic representations of the Virgin Mary have been man...
This senior honors thesis focuses on the medieval exegetical treatment of the Song of Songs and the ...
This thesis is concerned with the didactic function of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century vernacular ...
This interdisciplinary study of devotional literature, drama and the visual arts examines the repre...
(print) x, 292 p. : illus. ; 23 cmA study of sacred history and aesthetic formINTRODUCTION : The The...
Christianity, as a religion centered on the Incarnation of a spiritual being, is always necessarily ...
The usefulness of religious images to the Christian Church in late-medieval Europe had long been app...
This dissertation examines the complex interrelations between incarnation theology and notions of t...
The writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe show an awareness of traditional and contemporar...
Perhaps no other century in the history of literature has received more debunking and less treatment...