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The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation - Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England (Hardcover)
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The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation - Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England (Hardcover)
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Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the
American Society of Church History Winner of the 2022 SMFS Best
First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies Award An overlooked aspect
of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.
The Annunciation remains one of the most recognizable scenes in
western Christianity: the angel Gabriel addressing the Virgin Mary,
capturing the moment when Christ becomes incarnate. But one
consistent detail has evaded our scrutiny - Mary's book. What was
she reading? What does her book mean? This innovative study traces
the history of Mary's book at the Annunciation from the early
Middle Ages through to the Reformation, focusing on a wide variety
of religious treatises, visionary accounts, and art. It argues that
the Virgin provided a sophisticated model of reading and
interpretation that was foundational to devotional practices across
all spectrums of society in medieval England, and especially for
enclosed female readers. By imitating the Virgin, readers learned
how to read; they learned how to pray; they learned how to channel
God through vision and revelation. Most of all, they learned how to
conceive God spiritually, just as Mary had conceived him
physically, and just as she had conceived intellectually her
reading of the Old Testament prophecies foretelling the Incarnation
- that she herself was part of their fulfillment. The Annunciation
offered a hermeneutic model of conception radically based on the
reproductive female body, otherwise deeply problematic in medieval
culture. Scholars have long studied the importance of the Virgin
Mary for medieval people. But few would think of her as an
intellectual role model. Yet that is what this book contends - that
Mary's reading at the Annunciation is, essentially, a missing link
for understanding how reading, interpretation, and devotion worked
in the Middle Ages.
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