Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory,
gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary
study analyzes the cultural significance of the Shrine of our Lady
of Walsingham, medieval England's most significant pilgrimage site
devoted to the Virgin Mary, which was revived in the twentieth
century, and in 2006 voted Britain's favorite religious site.
Covering Walsingham's origins, destruction, and transformations
from the Middle Ages to the present, Gary Waller pursues his
investigation not through a standard history but by analyzing the
"invented traditions" and varied re-creations of Walsingham by the
"English imagination"- poems, fiction, songs, ballads, musical
compositions and folk legends, solemn devotional writings and
hostile satire which Walsingham has inspired, by Protestants,
Catholics, and religious skeptics alike. They include, in early
modern England, Erasmus, Ralegh, Sidney, and Shakespeare; then,
during Walsingham's long "protestantization" from the sixteenth
through nineteenth centuries, ballad revivals, archeological
investigations, and writings by Agnes Strickland, Edmund Waterton,
and Hopkins; and in the modern period, writers like Eliot, Charles
Williams, Robert Lowell, and A.N. Wilson. The concluding chapter
uses contemporary feminist theology to view Walsingham not just as
a symbol of nostalgia but a place inviting spiritual change through
its potential sexual and gender transformation.
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