Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the
Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site. Following its modern
revival it is also well known today. For nearly a thousand years,
it has been the subject of, or referred to in, music, poetry and
novels (by for instance Langland, Erasmus, Sidney, Shakespeare,
Hopkins, Eliot and Lowell). But only in the last twenty years or so
has it received serious scholarly attention. This volume represents
the first collection of multi-disciplinary essays on Walsingham's
broader cultural significance. Contributors to this book focus on
the hitherto neglected issue of Walsingham's cultural impact: the
literary, historical, art historical and sociological significance
that Walsingham has had for over six hundred years. The
collection's essays consider connections between landscape and the
sacred, the body and sexuality and Walsingham's place in
literature, music and, more broadly, especially since the
Reformation, in the construction of cultural memory. The historical
range of the essays includes Walsingham's rise to prominence in the
later Middle Ages, its destruction during the English Reformation,
and the presence of uncanny echoes and traces in early modern
English culture, including poems, ballads, music and some of the
plays of Shakespeare. Contributions also examine the cultural
dynamics of the remarkable revival of Walsingham as a place of
pilgrimage and as a cultural icon in the Victorian and modern
periods. Hitherto, scholarship on Walsingham has been almost
entirely confined to the history of religion. In contrast,
contributors to this volume include internationally known scholars
from literature, cultural studies, history, sociology, anthropology
and musicology as well as theology.
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